How can I optimize the “Performance Options” for A Photo? It becomes slower to react as I keep doing edits to my photos.

[AlejandroJ]

When doing a series of cloning and/or after having added some layers and done several adjustments, Affinity Photo begins to react to everything I try to do, more and more slowly in my computer as I keep working.

Could it be because of the RAM being overloaded by all done being summed and kept in memory (as it goes to “History”)? Would it help to lower the “undo limit” in “Performance Options”? If so, up to what value do I ought to lower it down?

When the program was installed, it was set by itself to 8192 MB of “RAM Usage Limit”. Mi computer has 8 GB of RAM. Should the value of the “RAM Usage Limit” be set under the computer’s RAM or as it is, over it?

Is there any other thing that I could do to improve the performance of the program and avoid having it become slower (much slower) to react as I keep working?

My computer (the one I am using most) is an HP Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU 2.20 Ghz, 8 Gb RAM. With Windows 10 64 bits.

[stokerg]

9 hours ago, AlejandroJ said:

Could it be because of the RAM being overloaded by all done being summed and kept in memory (as it goes to “History”)? Would it help to lower the “undo limit” in “Performance Options”? If so, up to what value do I ought to lower it down?

 

You could try lowering that but i doubt that would have much effect as the default value hasn't been know to cause any problems.

9 hours ago, AlejandroJ said:

When the program was installed, it was set by itself to 8192 MB of “RAM Usage Limit”. Mi computer has 8 GB of RAM. Should the value of the “RAM Usage Limit” be set under the computer’s RAM or as it is, over it?

 

That's fine, Affinity will detect the best setting for this and the Operating System should handle the memory well enough but if you wanted to play it safe you could lower this by 2GB but having it at 8 shouldn't cause any issues.

One thing you can check, in Preferences>Performance and what is the Renderer currently set to?

One thing you could try, is giving the latest beta a go from here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125070-affinity-photo-windows-customer-beta-190780/ and depending on your graphics card, the hardware acceleration features that have been introduced may help  

 

[AlejandroJ]

Thank you Stokerg for answering.

I’ll lower the RAM Usage Limit by 2 Gb and will see if it helps.

My graphic card is not a very potent one I think. The specs for it are:
Graphics Hardware: Intel® HD Graphics 5500, OpenGL Driver: 3.3.0 - Build 10.18.15.4274, CPU RAM: 8107 MB, Video RAM: 1500 MB Total, 1200 MB In Use, Preview Limit: 3466 Pixels.

I have the Render quality set to “Bilinear (Best Quality)”. I changed it to that one because if not, I was seeing the diagonal lines of objects on the images, dented (pixelated). But the program is not slow at first when I begin to work, it becomes slower as I add operations. I first noticed that this was happening to me specially but not exclusively after adding (keep adding) a series of cloning operations.

If I install the beta version, would it step over the version I have now installed, or would it install in parallel?

Thanks again.