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Thank you so much. Your solution opens up a whole new set of possibilities!

Don´t know if it works in your case 1 month after the purchase but this is what I found on the forum;

Just trying the exe file. The commands as I understood are then written after the exe; It would in my case look like this; E:\Documents\affinityworkarounds\aflaunch.exe - a Publisher2 -b Retail This command stuff after the exe is not working in any program I tried to connect with. What would be great and helpful is the below solution where you just rename the exe file to make it work with each program. It would be great if Serif offered this or a similar solution.

Hello @rvst, how do you compile this to an exe file? Are there some explanations or links available for explaining the process?

Seems like Exe Installers (for testing purposes) are already available.

For programs I use, those commands are not working hence the question. No idea if those command arguments after the exe file work with CTA5, lets hope the best for @Cartoon Mike

@walt.farrell according to the website,CTA5 is used with Affinity Designer. https://www.reallusion.com/de/cartoon-animator/event/cta5-wip/default.html is there a launcher available for each program?

what MikeTO said about the requirements + if I read this error message correct, you might need to install App-Installer from Microsoft. https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/appinstaller/9NBLGGH4NNS1

@Lakshimi The issue might be related to the AMD Radeon R5 M435, it apparently doesn´t meet the minimum requirements. It has DirectX 12 but only supports up to level 11.1. https://technical.city/de/video/Radeon-R5-M435 Reading the Affinity System Requirements, Direct3D level 12.0-capable cards are needed. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ The AMD Radeon R7 seems to support Feature Level 12_0. You could try to change the assigned GPU for Affinity V2. https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-017 https://www.itechtics.com/use-specific-gpu/#:~:text=can be achieved.-,Force the program to use a specific graphics card using Windows 10 settings,-Regardless of the

@Lakshimi Windows 10 or 11? Which build number do you have like which updates have been installed? Which GPU from which company like NVidia or AMD or Intel? GPU Drivers, have you installed them? If so, which driver number is it? RAM Size?

For a start I would try out to Enable OpenCL compute acceleration and then switch the Renderer; Default (Intel UHD Graphics 630) to your discrete GPU(the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti). If that doesn´t help, I would try out to again disable OpenCL compute acceleration and then switch to the WARP engine. WARP uses the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform for presenting the document and can be helpful if you are experiencing performance issues.

Its a File format and can be used in many different ways and on different platforms. If you have something to do with for example Software/Games development where you make usage of Vulcan or DirectX, you can make usage of the DDS file format which means quicker Read write cycles (I/O) to the Graphicscard. DDS is also a standard file format in the Film/VFX Industry.

For Point 1, have you tried clicking on the brush icon on your layer? There should be a list of used brushes and sizes. clicking on one of those means, you get switched back to the brush and its size setting.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ When going down that site and revealing all Features and doing a quick CTRL+F and typing in for desktop only, you get at least 53 matches of Features the IPad doesn´t have. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/full-feature-list/ 20 matches for Publisher https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/full-feature-list/ 58 matches for Designer I haven´t looked if the matches are duplicates or not.