ChrisJW

Thank you v_kyr for your comments. As I am new to these forums it was suggested that I repost with a better title so as to open it up to more suggestions. I have now done this. Regards, Chris Wales

I am about to replace my old 64 bit PC with Windows 10 Pro, an intel (R) Core Duo CPU E850, OS build 19041.804. I am looking at a much higher spec PC with an Intel i9 10th gen 10 core processor. My question is, Is a graphics card (GPU) such as a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics processor, or better, necessary with such a high spec CPU? What is the advantage, if any, for having a graphics card? At present I am finding editing in Affinity Photo very slow. I cannot update the OS to 19042.804. I just get the message saying: 'Cannot update, PC too old.' Thus, I am unable to select Hardware Acceleration option in the Preferences to enable OpenCL compute acceleration. I work with RAW files. Note: I have posted this topic previously but in the wrong category. I'm a newbie to these forums so any comments would be welcome. Chris Wales

Thanks for that spinhead. I'll repost with your suggestions. Chris Wales

I am about to replace my old 64 bit PC with Windows 10 Pro, an intel (R) Core Duo CPU E850, OS build 19041.804. I am looking at a much higher spec PC with an Intel i9 10th gen 10 core processor. My question is, Is a graphics card (GPU) such as a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics processor, or better, necessary with such a high spec CPU? What is the advantage, if any, for having a graphics card? At present I am finding editing in Affinity Photo very slow. I cannot update the OS to 19042.804. I just get the message saying: 'Cannot update, PC too old.' Thus, I am unable to select Hardware Acceleration option in the Preferences to enable OpenCL compute acceleration. I work with RAW files. Any comments would be welcome. Chris Wales

I reinstalled Affinity Photo non-beta and yes the icon is now showing with the .afphoto logo without the beta mark. Thankyou.

Thanks for that.

Thanks for that John. I'll try the reinstall and see what happens.

Thanks for that. I think that was the case with me. I received a message saying that a new beta version was available and downloaded it. Does this mean that when the next Affinity Photo is available, that the BETA word will be missing on the .afphoto file?

Why is it that when I work in Affinity Photo 1.8.3.641 and save my work as *.afphoto, I get the Beta symbol in the bottom RH corner. I also get the same symbol when working and saving in Affinity Photo 1.8.4.676 (Beta) which seems logical. Regards, Chris Wales