Affinity Designer Windows Customer Beta - 1.9.0.834

[Mark Ingram]

Click here to download the latest beta

Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Changes

• Enable hardware by default, but restrict it to Windows 10.0.19041 (May 2020), and GPUs that support Direct3D 12 Feature Level 12.0 and above (see https://affin.co/WinGPU for further information).
• Added Save as Package
• Added ability to open package files
• Improvements to application registration and content syncing
• Improved Studio Presets management
• Fixed import of some PSD files ignoring the alpha channel
• Fixed ALT+MouseWheel causing the menubar to highlight
• Fixed crash when resizing canvas 
• Fixed Alignment toolbar buttons always being disabled
• Fixed several bugs relating to using pixel layers as children in symbols

1.9.0.820 release notes

[Lincsman]

As soon as I try to open a document, Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0.834 crashed, just the same as the new photo beta does, I am unable to open anything in either program.

Disabling Hardware acceleration allows me to open files, enabling it again crashes

EDIT: Just realised I once again added incorrect log file, I have attached the correct one this morning

 

Log.txt

[Takudzwa Nyoni]

Thank you or the update, sweet new features? Just a random question. Is there any more improvements (additional features) we should expect when it come to the contour tool?

[Panchdara]

21 hours ago, Lincsman said:

As soon as I try to open a document, Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0.834 crashed, just the same as the new photo beta does, I am unable to open anything in either program.

Disabeling Hardware acceleration allows me to open files, enabling it again crashes

Log.txt 5.21 kB · 2 downloads

Same here... same happens with APhoto beta .834 too.

 

Edit: Finally managed to remove all registry entries and reinstall 820! Phew!

[Aongus Collins]

I tried but failed to reproduce this on two versions of Windows: 
-- Previous version, Home (10.0.18363), no hardware acceleration
-- October Feature Update (2004) with hardware acceleration both enabled & disabled.
Version1.9.0.834 opened .afdesign files, created in this and earlier versions of the program. Also opened PDF, tif, png & psd files without crashing.

XPS 15, 32GB RAM, Nvidia 1050

[Rick G]

19 hours ago, Lincsman said:

As soon as I try to open a document, Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0.834 crashed, just the same as the new photo beta does, I am unable to open anything in either program.

Disabling Hardware acceleration allows me to open files, enabling it again crashes

EDIT: Just realised I once again added incorrect log file, I have attached the correct one this morning

 

Log.txt 5.63 kB · 0 downloads

Same here

[Dave Quail]

Both AD and APh 834 work for me on Windows 10 2009. Hardware acceleration enabled. This is on two laptops, one i7 and the other i5, both with 16GB RAM.

[AlainP]

Both work very well so far here too.

[walt.farrell]

On 11/6/2020 at 4:37 PM, Lincsman said:

As soon as I try to open a document, Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0.834 crashed, just the same as the new photo beta does, I am unable to open anything in either program.

Disabling Hardware acceleration allows me to open files, enabling it again crashes

 

For me, with Hardware Acceleration enabled (but with no GPU that supports it), I cannot:

• Create a New document via File > New. The initial dialog opens, but when I click Create the program crashes.
• Without a document open, I cannot switch to the Pixel Persona and then look at the Brushes panel. As soon as I click on its tab, the program crashes. It works fine in the Designer Persona.

After I disable Hardware Acceleration and restart Designer, both these functions work properly.

[Panchdara]

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

 

For me, with Hardware Acceleration enabled (but with no GPU that supports it), I cannot:

• Create a New document via File > New. The initial dialog opens, but when I click Create the program crashes.
• Without a document open, I cannot switch to the Pixel Persona and then look at the Brushes panel. As soon as I click on its tab, the program crashes. It works fine in the Designer Persona.

After I disable Hardware Acceleration and restart Designer, both these functions work properly.

Thanks so, so much Walt! This is the solution to the problem. You are a star!

 

Affinity: Please default OpenCL acceleration to NO on install. (and I am absolutely sure this will be addressed because Affinity do listen)

[Pyanepsion]

This Beta version 1.9.0.834 is buggy. It crashes whenever you want to open a file from the previous beta version or from the public version. Disabling hardware acceleration allows opening files.

Renderer: NVidia GForce GT 640.

[Mark Ingram]

10 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

 

For me, with Hardware Acceleration enabled (but with no GPU that supports it), I cannot:

• Create a New document via File > New. The initial dialog opens, but when I click Create the program crashes.
• Without a document open, I cannot switch to the Pixel Persona and then look at the Brushes panel. As soon as I click on its tab, the program crashes. It works fine in the Designer Persona.

After I disable Hardware Acceleration and restart Designer, both these functions work properly.

I assume that you can't re-enable the option? After you've disabled the option, then restarted the app?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Mark Ingram said:

I assume that you can't re-enable the option? After you've disabled the option, then restarted the app?

No. If I reenable it the crashes return.

[IndieGuy]

Instead of being forced to use HW acceleration by default, it would be better to implement a splash screen of sorts (like in many video games) which presents the option to users at the time of startup. I don't want to miss out on using the program just because I have (supposedly) obsolete hardware that is limited to DX11. For all I know, I may never even be using it to create very large, complex pieces of work that demand powerful GPUs. The software/processor based implementation would suffice for my use case 🙂.

[Panchdara]

Further to my previous thread - fails on an NVIDIA GTX760 w/4gb if h/w acceleration enabled.

 

[Mark Ingram]

10 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

No. If I reenable it the crashes return.

Interesting - you shouldn't be able to re-enable it. There's obviously something wrong with the detection...

[Mark Ingram]

10 hours ago, IndieGuy said:

Instead of being forced to use HW acceleration by default, it would be better to implement a splash screen of sorts (like in many video games) which presents the option to users at the time of startup. I don't want to miss out on using the program just because I have (supposedly) obsolete hardware that is limited to DX11. For all I know, I may never even be using it to create very large, complex pieces of work that demand powerful GPUs. The software/processor based implementation would suffice for my use case 🙂.

You're not, it's on by default if your hardware supports it (or at least it's supposed to work that way...). If you don't have the hardware, the app will work exactly the same as it always has done.

[Eddy-2]

Designer Beta 1.9.0.834

New drawing
Add rectangle (Rectangle Tool)
Rotate from one corner
Bounding box appears with same fill colour as rectangle (attached image)

Additional info.

Zoom clears the bounding box but changing the fill colour of the rectangle restores it.

[Sean P]

Hi Eddy-2,

Thanks for letting us know - this is something we're aware of and is with development to be fixed.

[XU3E]

Hardware acceleration is very slow. I have GTX 1070 8GB RAM. Even with snapping disabled i see that pointer is slow and less responsible. With old version Affinity or Hardware acceleration disabled there is no problem.

[Mark Ingram]

20 hours ago, XU3E said:

Hardware acceleration is very slow. I have GTX 1070 8GB RAM. Even with snapping disabled i see that pointer is slow and less responsible. With old version Affinity or Hardware acceleration disabled there is no problem.

The pointer?

[af-user]

23 hours ago, XU3E said:

Hardware acceleration is very slow. I have GTX 1070 8GB RAM. Even with snapping disabled i see that pointer is slow and less responsible. With old version Affinity or Hardware acceleration disabled there is no problem.

 

I have a GTX 1070, too and no problems.

Driver: v456.71

Windows 10 (still 2004 no H2)

 

Any special document type or tool type?

 

 

[Mark Ingram]

1.9.0.852 is now available.