Hang then crash after changing preferences in beta [556].

[Old Bruce]

This happens with both Photo [164] and Publisher [556] betas. I have gotten into the habit of doing a control start with the new betas after I download them I reset the default set. Then I set the preferences to what I like. This involves having to restart because I go to use Metal instead of openGL.
Hitting the Restart Now button results in nothing happening then a crash after several seconds. Appears to happen after a machine restart or a Log out Log in. And just to really frustrate you, occasionally it will restart after the crash log appears.

[Patrick Connor]

Sorry.

Thank you for reporting a problem using the pre 1.8.0 beta builds. It appears that a member of the Affinity QA team didn't get round to fully investigating this specific report posted in the bugs forums. We are very sorry for this oversight. Yours is one of a number of reports that I am posting this apology to, using an automated script. 

Now we have released 1.8.3 on all platforms containing many hundreds of bug fixes, and we hope your problem has already been fully addressed. If you still have this problem in the 1.8.3 release build, then the QA team would really appreciate you reporting again it in the relevant Bugs forum.

• Report a Bug in Affinity Designer
• Report a Bug in Affinity Photo
• Report a Bug in Affinity Publisher

Each of those links above contains instructions how best to report a bug to us. If that is what you already did in this thread just copy paste your original report into a new thread. We appreciate all the information that you have including sample files and screen shots to help us replicate your problem.

This thread has now been locked as the QA team are not following the threads to which this automatic reply is made, which is why we would appreciate a new bug report if you are still have this problem in the release build.