Affinity: Enable hardware by default

[Pyanepsion]

Hello,

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Enable hardware by default, but restrict it to Windows 10.0.19042 (May 2020), and GPUs that support Direct3D 12 Feature Level 12.0 and above.

What does this improvement do? Thank you for your explanations.

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[Pyanepsion]

I use a backup computer that is always a little behind the new version of Windows so as to limit the problems of temporary malfunctions sometimes encountered during system updates. Does this mean that the software will not work on this computer?

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[GarryP]

Pyanepsion: As I understand it, the software should continue to work as it does now but, unless the machine comes up to – or exceeds – the requirements you mentioned above, you won’t be able to use the GPU acceleration features.

[myclay]

On 11/7/2020 at 8:34 AM, Pyanepsion said:

Hello,

What does this improvement do? Thank you for your explanations.

it enables GPU acceleration by default, after install, the first start its activated.
Some tasks are multiple times faster than without, to get a glimpse on how much faster it can be, look into the benchmark thread.

I use a slightly older win10 version and the newest beta versions with enabled GPU  acceleration works flawlessly.
Due to the older windows installation, I had to go to the preferences to activate it manually.

 

[walt.farrell]

42 minutes ago, myclay said:

I use a slightly older win10 version and the newest beta versions with enabled GPU  acceleration works flawlessly.
Due to the older windows installation, I had to go to the preferences to activate it manually.

According to @Mark Ingram's post on the requirements for using hardward acceleration on Windows, it cannot be enabled unless you're on at least Win10 19041 (May, 2020), and it should be enabled automatically at that level, I think.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/126698-windows-hardware-acceleration-requirements/

Note that even if enabled, it will not be usable unless one of the available GPUs meets additional requirements documented in that post.

[myclay]

thanks for the valuable information, you are of course right.
minimum Hardware and OS build requirement are met. My confusion must have stemmed from the newer Windows 10 -19042 release which came out a while ago.