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I'm using a PC which I built last year for general purpose use including writing and video work (DaVinci Resolve) under Linux. My book manuscript is almost ready for publication and I wanted to try the Affinity suite to prepare it for prepress. I purchased a new copy of Windows 10 and installed it as a dual-boot system, then installed the 30-day trial of the Affinity products. However, I have not been able to get the Affinity programs to operate properly under Windows. They report successful installation, but never go beyond the initial logo screen and eventually Windows tells me, "Affinity Publisher 2 is not responding" and offers me no choice except to continue to wait or to exit the program. This is frustrating because, before purchasing Windows, I successfully installed and ran the Affinity suite on the Linux side in VirtualBox using an unregistered Windows install for evaluation purposes. It was slow but appeared to be fully functional, and I expected it to work much better with a native and activated Windows OS. Instead, it's unusable. I posted this under the Windows Support forum and another user suggested that I try enabling/disabling hardware acceleration. It didn't make a difference; I received the same results either way. I've also tried with both the .msix and .exe installers, using the latter with "Run as Administrator." No help. The other forum user suggested that my AMD graphics card might be causing the incompatibility. Possible, but I'm not going to jettison a graphics card I'm happy with and which runs all the other software I use because of a problem with this one program. I'm not going to be moving forward with my purchase of the Affinity suite at this time (can you blame me?), but I'm still in need of a good .pdf generator for my book manuscript. If you resolve this issue please let me know and I'll reconsider purchase. In the meantime, I'm trying to learn Scribus. My system information (courtesy TechGuy.org): Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.9 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit, Build 19045, Installed 20230611161523.000000-300 Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5500, AMD64 Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0, CPU Count: 12 Total Physical RAM: 32 GB Graphics Card: AMD FirePro W5100 (FireGL V) Graphics Adapter Hard Drives: 😄 931 GB (862 GB Free); Motherboard: ASRock A520M Phantom Gaming 4 System: American Megatrends International, LLC., ver ALASKA - 1072009, s/n To Be Filled By O.E.M. Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated

I purchased Affinity Designer in Jan-18, haven't use it for a while and today wanted to use it but it doesn't let me... I purchased it through the Mac App Store and when I went to the 'Purchased' tab... The Affinity Application opened but It doesn't let me use it... Does anyone know why... here is the screenshot of what I found when I opened the program, and I can't go further!!! When I go to create a new file it doesn't let me Could you help me out? Please!!!!