curlypaws

I no longer have the v1 apps installed, but find the v2 apps take a while to launch. So I don’t think prior use of a v1 app causes this. It is a real barrier to using Affinity Photo in particular as other similar programs open in a fraction of the time. Mac running OS X Ventura 13.1, hardware acceleration on (set to Metal now rather than OpenGL in Designer and Publisher but made no difference), latest Mac App Store versions of Affinity v2 apps (2.0.3). Graphics are a Radeon Pro Vega II.

Hi @Ansgar - I'm afraid that you'll find the delay returns over time. There is a recurring cycle of long delays followed by some period where the applications open normally. I think you are right and it may be to do with licence checking though.

Still waiting as well - ordered on 30 November here in the UK (of course it could be stuck in the whole Brexit mess, the border closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic or the Royal Mail's parcel backlog).

I'm seeing the same issue. I counted some 34 bounces of the icon before the UI appears on first launch. It is at least much faster on the second startup. This is on a Mac Pro 3.3Ghz 12 core, 96Gb RAM and 4Tb SSD running Big Sur 11.0.1. And, in common with the mentions above, this is using the Mac App Store version.

Hi Jon, I've uploaded the file to the link that you provided, hopefully you can reproduce. I see the crash every time I tick "Keep paragraph together" both while "Prevent orphaned first lines" and "Prevent widowed last lines" are ticked, and if I clear them and then select "Keep paragraph together". Thanks, Karen

I'm seeing this with beta 1.8.0.535 running under macOS 10.15.2. Setting any kind of paragraph flows immediately crashes the app. This is a document which I created in the 1.8.0 betas so I can't open it under 1.7.3. But my other documents created and edited under 1.7.3 have no issue with altering paragraph flows.