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Anyone having any luck with OpenCL on AMD video cards? I have 5 different Nvidia cards (970 and above) and OpenCL cripples performance in all my large files. Also note to the devs the issue where WARP is still way faster compared to default on Nvidia cards still exists... either that should be fixed or you should change the default to WARP when Nvidia cards are detected.

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+1 here too, and gotta say I have not been impressed with feature updates for AD since I bought it. Publisher has some okay things going for it, but in the end I don't think it was worth pulling the resources away from AD and AP at least from an outside point of view who is not impressed enough with publisher to bother buying it. Would be cool to see sales number comparison of it vs AD and AP to see the real facts. For all I know it was a major success, but from all the people I know it was a major flop.

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I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

Many of the programs I use now days allow you to set a backup directory and have x number of the most recent backups for each file kept in that location. I like using these features as they give me a generated backup on a second hard drive, thus adding a nice extra layer of security on all my.

Indeed, first thing I tried was changing the file name. I have a faintly good backup system well my computer is unattended things automatically sync between three different physical locations. I had just gotten into a creative zone and worked 10hrs straight without letting the system go to idle long enough to sync. So the only thing that was lost was this one project.

Is there any way to recover a .autosave file where the linked parent is gone? I had a hard drive failure and l lost the original file, but there is an .autosave file that looks like it's exactly the size of what I lost.

Looking at things I'd wager it's really the OpenCL support. 970 GTX didn't have OpenCL and the older and vastly lower powered AMD cards I had tried earlier in the thread had OpenCL support which was apparently enough to make them performance just as good as the 970 GTX without it. So now that I have a high end card with OpenCL support that's probably why I saw the huge leap.

In hindsight I really wished I would have made a video since it really has been an amazing change that I wasn't expected at all. But since I wasn't expecting it, it caught me me off guard and I had already pre-sold GTX 970 right before getting the 1080 TI so It went straight out the door the moment it was pulled from the system.

Just got a 1080 ti for a good price since people are moving to 2xxx cards. Just wanted to add/update to this topic that there is a night and day difference in how well large complex files with lots of effects are handled 970 vs 1080 ti for pan & zoom. Had I known there was going to be this massive of an improvement in quality of life to pan & zoom I would have gladly updated to the 1080 TI a year ago when I first made this post and paid all the extra. Things went from slow and lagy at best and crippling slow frequently to barely noticeable at all even on my most complex works. I can now pan and zoom as fast as my hands and fingers can move on works that use to slow to a crippling crawl if I tried to move faster than a snails pace.

I hadn't noticed the adjustment layer system before. I will be using it for many things now. However it still dose not solve the major issue of not effecting nested sub-objects. it dose not seem to be possible to make an adjustment layer that only effects the parent object. The Adjustment layer is fixed at the top of the object tree and therefore effects everything below it. If it was possible to move the adjustment level around in the sub-object tree it would be quite power. I stand corrected after messing around more it seems you can move the adjustment layers around sub-objects. Not sure why it wasn't let me move them around when I first tried. Though when you use adjustment layers it doesn't effect the border of the parent object so there is still no way to edit gradient colors in this way for borders. There is also the rather big issue of not being able to copy/past or otherwise save and reuse the style.

Indeed I run plenty of other heavy weight software and have no issues. I fear there is no point in trying to get more speed from AD at this point, especially after reading the AP thread and noticing that it at the very least is stressing hardware. Which at least tells you even though AP windows code is inefficient you can still brute force it a little. AD on the other hand based on my testing bottlenecks and taps out long before it stresses anything. Very rarely dose it even use more than 3 CPU threads, spending time watching GPU utilization well running it it barely peaks the 970 to 31% and only uses about half the VRAM. So until something changes in the AD code there seems to be a virtual wall in the way. Which is to bad, it's not like I'll stop using AD it's still vastly nicer to work with AI. A bit limiting and now slower that I'm working with bigger files but the nicer interface is still worth it. On the bright side based on what I see, if they ever get the bottleneck figured out and fixed than AD should gain a huge performance boost on my system, just by virtue of actually using the resources at hand.

Well at my sisters today I tested on her system and with a much older CPU (Intel 2600k), Nvidia 1050, an older HDD, and only 4GB of ram her system provided such a similar match to mine with AD that it would be hard to tell the difference at all. Which dose make me think that either Nvidia cards are indeed having issues on windows 7 and 10 with AD or there's a major bottleneck in ADs code itself. If anyone on the forums has a windows system running a modern mid to higher-end AMD video card I'd be very interested to know how well it's really performing.

Out of the two rather old AMD cards I do have: 4850 HD and a Firepro V4800 There wasn't any noticeable difference between them they are both roughly the same raw power but the Firepro tends to normally be better at OpenGL due to the better driver support. Though sadly I wouldn't say either of them was a huge loss compared to the 970 GTX either. Rendering speed is only about maybe 2.5x faster on the 970 GTX as the two rather ancient AMD cards.

I had forgotten GPU-Z had a monitor to show GPU load and it seems the GPU isn't being pushed hardly at all either. I tired looking on the forum and couldn't find anything useful, all the things I could find related to full blown issues or AD not working at all. In my case it works fine, as long as things stay in the low range of things it works fast and smooth and I have no other errors. Unlike the old days I couldn't find any true alternative Nivida drivers I did try using the ones from their site rather than the default installed by windows to no benefit. Doing a general search on google I tried a number of Nivida program settings that had lead to better OpenGL performance in other programs to no benefit either. If I had the money to toss at it, it would be quite interesting to see a AMD vs Nivida benchmark of AD to see if there's really any effect, but most of the other programs I use benefit quite a bit from CUDA so it's not something I'd want to do on a whim.

Attached is a example screenshot. Well zooming and panning I am often left with sections of the canvas that look fuzzy and lag behind for some time. Similar effects also happen well moving complex or a number of simple objects around as well. the move will become very laggy/fuzzy and hard to position, however neither the CPU nor ram are being used much at all.

Based on that description it very well may be the video card causing my bottleneck. It's the Panning and Zooming that's getting slow and making things hard to work with. My CPU is 7700k, RAM is 32GB of good quality DDR4 and my SSD is a dual Samsung 850 pro setup. The main thing is that AD isn't using much of either. Only 30~% of ram is in use and the majority of that is going to other programs AD is only using around 2-4GB when Zooming and panning the canvas goes fuzzy and AD seems to be struggling hard the CPU load peaks at 41% for 1 second and than drops down to 20% for the few more seconds it takes before things render clear. So maybe to re-phase my question since it really dose sound like the video card: For better zooming, panning draws would their be a good benefit to moving to a different video card.

I did a search and didn't see this already requested, of course I could have still missed it due to bad wording. It dose not seem to currently be possible to edit gradients as a whole instead you have to go section by section which is very time consuming, especially with complex gradients. You can use the FX overlay to a degree, however it is not usable if you are working with lots of nested objects.

Designer is slow on big/complex files but only using 20~% CPU and 30~% RAM So I was wondering if a better video card would make a noticeable difference. Currently using a 970 GTX

The noise selection for solid colors seems to be missing now, or was it moved to some place else?

New to the beta so hopefully I'm putting this in the right place. This seems to be where people are reporting bugs. Bug: When a color is change in the gradient flyout if you are using something other than linear it will change back to linear. Example: If you are using a elliptical gGradient and than change a color it will turn into a linear gradient.