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Hi Walt.  Yep.  It said I couldn't enable hardware acceleration anyway as I don't have a supported graphics card.   I can't actually change the settings as, in accordance with help, "The setting is inaccessible if Affinity Photo is unable to detect a compatible GPU on your system".  Thanks.

Thanks, Patrick.  As far as I can see, my Bitdefender firewall is giving full permissions to Photo, both beta and full - but I'll keep checking.
In the meantime, The Affinity Photo Help says this :
Software Updates Sets the frequency to which the app will check for any software updates. You can switch off update checking by selecting 'Never' However, I can't find this in Preferences under Edit where Help says this setting is.  Does this not exist any more?  If it does, perhaps this has been changed somehow...

Well, there you go ..  Just logged into Photo Beta and the update available notification popped up - hopefully will continue to.  As far as I am aware, nothing has changed my end since last night when I still had the problem.  One of life's mysteries ...

Hi.  If I select a tool and then use the space bar to get the hand cursor icon to move the photo about, when I release the space bar the hand stays showing instead of immediately reverting back to the original tool icon.  That feels odd.
Often, the hand will change to the tool if I move the mouse, which isn't ideal - or click which I may not want to do as that activates the tool.
However, in some cases the hand remains there (again unless I click or) unless I move it to the tool bar and back again (without clicking, doesn't need to be the same tool).  This has happened with the floodfill tool, selection brush and colour picker - I haven't tried many other tools.
Thanks.
Nigel
 

Hi.  Trying out the two methods of denoise filter with the same settings, I get a very different look from each method - much smoother using the destructive filter.  Is this supposed to happen this way? Same result on 1.7.0.367 and beta 1.404.
Thanks, Nigel.

Automatic inpainting on finishing a panorama is so many times quicker now! Previously, quite low CPU usage and 100% disk accessing, so not doing anything.  Now, up to 100% CPU usage and very little disk accessing.  Compared again with latest 1.5 - amazing difference. Thanks.

Total non-tech person here, but when comparing the same photo in 1.5 and this Beta, the colour in Beta has gone weird and there is clear banding- as though its down to very few bit colour. I guess related to the colour problems others have mentioned. The navigator view looks OK, but then that's small.  The histogram has also gone weird.  In 1.5 it's nice and solid - in Beta its like a series of vertical lines as though the depth of colour has gone.