intermittent crashing when adjusting marquee areas

[Bartelmy]

I am using Build 1.7.3.481 on the most recent stable update for 64-bit Windows 10.

I have had occasional problems when trying to apply adjustments to a marquee area of an image. Most recently, I marqueed an area of hazy cliffs in the background of a harbour picture and applied the Sharpen-Clarity filter (at its default setting). I did this after previously adjusting the whole image using Sharpen-Unsharp Mask (Radius 1.5; factor 2; threshold 0). The whole program immediately seized up: the screen went a translucent milky colour and all control was lost: I had to go to Task Manager to shut the program down.

 

[Chris B]

Hey Bartholomew,

I've tried to make a similar document but everything seems to be working as expected.

I think we would ideally need a document from you (I realise that may be tricky if it's crashing randomly). 

[Bartelmy]

Thanks I posted this as a bug only on the grounds that it might be: I have had a few incidents after Microsoft's upgrades to Windows 10 (perhaps 'upgrades' belongs in inverted commas) - drivers breaking, folders going missing, programs not saving etc. So it may be that this unpredictable crashing is related to Windows rather than to Affinity Photo. If it happens again, I will try and rescue as much info as possible and report back. It would not surprise me in the least to find that the real culprit is my graphics driver - AMD are pretty good with driver updates but do tend to release them rather slowly.

I will report the crash to Microsoft as part of my normal feedback to them. Bart