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Hi, I purchased Affinity Photo and Designer for the Mac when they came out, and I've also done the same for Windows. I've kept quiet for a good while as I realise the Affinity products are still young in development (whatever that means), but I'm beginning to wonder why the startup times are so slow, even launching Affinity Photo on Windows, either the latest official release or the latest Beta - Is 20+ Seconds, is that right? I can only compare with all my other software, nothing takes this long to load. Photoshop CS6 as most know takes no more than a few seconds, but occupies more memory. Is there something that is causing a bottle-neck, such as .Net framework (which as far as I'm aware is what is used)? But why just Affinity products? I'm sure I have loads of software using .Net, so what's up? Even when Affinity Photo is open and I load a new image, whether it's a small image, or a large one, it tends to take the same length of time. This is on more than one PC/laptop, fresh installs to long time installs, One set of hardware to another. Even on SSD drives it both products are slow. Don't get me wrong, I feel I've managed to switch over the main staple of things I'd do in Photoshop on a day-to-day basis and complete them in Affinity Photo, the same with Illustrator and Designer - they are good products, especially considering the price as a hobbyist. But I just can't get my head around the sluggishness of startup times and loading images. Can anyone shed a light on this? Cheers.

When I update the beta version of Affinity for Windows (Windows 10) the installer asks me to install MS .Net Framework 4.6.2 again, which takes quite a while. This has happened when I updated from 1.5.05 to 1.5.09 and again from 1.5.09 to 1.5.12 I note that, via Control Panel that I have .Net Framework 3.5 (includes .Net 2.0 and 3.0) and .Net Framework 4.6 installed on my PC already, is this necessary. Zander

Hi all, I always get the error "Designer.exe - This application could not be startet" as the screenshot attached shows. I followed the instructions and installed the desired .NET version,restarted the system as suggested after installing it but without success. This message always appears. I am running Windows 10 with latest updated. Kind regards, Michael Jünger