andrej7

Hi Fernando, what you can do is to use low res images and delete those you don't use .. just for the "designing" phase .. at the end you can replace them with high resolution versions. This is what I did yesterday and seems I can live with it for a while. I wish I could find some better walkaround this problem .. Andrej

Actually I know pretty much about GPU and acceleration. Affinity definitely use in some way a GPU acceleration otherwise the app would be crazy slow compared how responsive otherwise is. What I was thinking all the time is that it looks like the texture uploading problem or something with LOD system that could have something to do with AMD drivers. My GPU have 8GB of VRAM .. so I cannot believe that id could not fit what I use .. so probably not the case. The Warp setting just made the rendering slow and the lag was still there. It's definitely related to the images put into documents, the bigger the image the more lagging. To me it could be a bug. The pictures that I use in the document should fit into VRAM with no problems yet still have lagging. I there are plenty of people on this forum referring to this problem .. and few mentioned that they also had AMD card. It is very important to notice this makes app unusable. I have to optimize my image use and resolution before doing anything and keeping a lot of separate documents. I have also noticed that since I started using snapshot function the lagging is now taking over a minute. Please somebody fix this. Thanks.

Hi, this is freezing that happens to me from the times it was a beta. Everything works smooth but as the complexity of the document is going up the nonobvious lagging starts to appear .. now lags takes around 30s .. it feels like it happens randomly. This freezing forced me to look for a solution or walkaround how I can live with this problem until it will be maybe some day fixed or reduced. I started to use shapshots and it made things a lot worse. I also have an AMD R9 card .. It lags in average every few minutes sometimes even few seconds and it takes up to 30s now .. so you can imagine it's on the edge of usability and it's extremely annoying. The CPU and RAM usage is not spiking or anything .. its just freezed. I love Affinity Designer. This happens in all my documents / projects. I tried to play with performance settings but no change, but to be honest I didn't tried to change the renderer to "Warp" since I was guessing that it will make use of CPU rendering instead of GPU which will make it a lot slower in general. Please do something with this ! Thank you.

Hello everybody, Using just PNG or GIF might seems as easy and OK option but if you want BEST results you need to have separate image for each scale of the icon, since in some cases the icons are very small and you really have to craft those image on the pixel level to make them crisp and clean. You cannot just resample the same image, that way you can get pretty blurry or aliased icons. So the ICO is the must if you are concerned about best results. I hope Affinity will get this feature soon, so we can export everything in the batch without having some special custom steps in production to construct ICO files manually.

There are still bugs in the in 1.5.0.36. I purchased the app, but waiting for updates. I hope that updates are included with the purchase.

Purchased ! .. however I am wondering that you released it .. it's not really bug free yet. I still have both most annoying bugs that I have and also I didn't used it much since I realized It's broken inside the symbols code ... I didn't wanted to risk loosing or damaging my work. From what I have seen in the above comments it looks like I will get free updates until V2 .. so that's great .. fix me If I am wrong. I hope you fix the symbols feature soon so I can continue working on my document. Also I have this weird random lags .. I think It have to to something with my scene .. I have 8 huge artboards in the Full HD width and like 10x more height. So maybe you didn't know about this since most of the guys who had beta didn't really make anything bigger yet ... But you will eventually have to deal with it as the people will start to do actual work with it.

Hello, I still have this problem. It is maybe document related but it doesn't look like reasonable processing lag (I also code apps). Id didn't remember it happening in blank scene and it is also occasional I would need to make a longer video to capture that. The fact is that my document is pretty big and complex, I have several artboards and lots of objects and symbols. It works nice and smooth regardless what I am doing and then suddenly lag that can happen during zooming, selecting, moving, moving guides almost anything right at the start of the operation as I press the mouse button. It doesn't happen when working in menus, toolbars or other GUI. It always happens when working with the actual document view. I was just curious if it's just me or somebody else have this issue too or it's known bug.

I don't think so .. this problem is persistent from the first version I had installed which is 1.5.0.25. I don't have effects panel visible. And I do not use history and don't have much of text in the project. This happens all the time quite randomly. Mostly Zooming/Selecting as far as I remember.

There is one problem that is constantly bothering me .. and I am not sure what is causing it or if that is well known issue. Overall app is very fast and smooth but occasionally (but still quite often) and unexpectedly I have huge lags that take around 3 seconds. It always happens along some operation on like zooming, selecting or something like that. It doesn't looks like something needs to be updated or recomputed since the same operation worked instantly a second ago .. so it looks more like a bug. Do you guys know about this ?

Hi everybody, so it's known problem. That's good to know. Hope you guys will get the fix into the next build. I also made a similar report about bug in Symbols feature few days ago which is a bit nasty bug. I have encountered few more problems If I manage to reproduce them I could make you some video for that too. Good luck with the code :)

Seems nobody likes bugs here :D .. maybe not worth to spend time on video bug reports ..

Hi Developers, I have made full steps to reproduce video to show a bug that happens when you want to use guides and have multiple artboards. The guide positions are offsetted. This bug also appeared on the previous version 1.5.0.26. The video is in the attachment. Let me know if you need more info. Best Regards, Beta User GuidesBug.zip

.. so it might be cool to have better control over this. Like list of unlinked attributes where you can add/remove items.

.. so this way you can select which attributes will be unlinked ? .. and what If you want it back to be linked again ?

Oh, I didn't know that. Good to know, thank you! Can you please elaborate on how the sync button should be used ? Why should I turn the sync off ? What's the point ?