Following a recent update to 1.5.3.69 running on Windows 10, Affinity Designer has taken to locking up (often) and crashing (occasionally). I've not yet spotted any pattern as to when this occurs, or under what conditions.
When it locks up, Windows doesn't flag it up as having stopped responding. However, it does not respond to any clicks or keyboard commands. I have discovered that it can be "revived" by selecting Close All Windows after right clicking the icon on the Windows 10 toolbar. It proceeds to close the program and, if something is not saved, it asks me if I want to save changes, discard changes or cancel the close. Selecting "cancel" allows me to continue with my work.
If everything is saved, the program dutifully closes and must be restarted. When crashing, AD usually gives me a crash report. But not always. Which is what prompted me to write this. I think I still have the previous version in my downloads folder, so I will try to roll back to hat version until this is fixed. (The previous version worked perfectly.)