Vasto7 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Enabling Hardware acceleration significantly slows down the AP compared to 1.8 and when when hardware acceleration is not ticked in 1.9. I am running a AMD RX 5700 GPU, driver 20.9.1. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted November 23, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 23, 2020 Hey Vasto7, What exactly slows down? Painting, rendering, moving objects, processing etc? How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 @Vasto7 In addition to what @Chris B has written, I think your GPU driver is out of date. The latest is 20.11.2 Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 The 20.9.1 driver is the "Recommended" driver. There is a newer driver (20.11.2) is still "Optional." As far as what slows down. I have not done an extensive survey, but have the following observations. Loading documents into both the Develop and Edit personas is slower. For example, loading the same 24 MB tif file took about 0.2 sec. for AP 1.8 and about 5 seconds for AP 1.9 (when accelerated). Moving between the Tabs (Layers, Adjustment, Effects, Styles) caused the program to not respond for about the 30 seconds. These issue do not occur when hardware acceleration is disabled. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I'm running the 20.11.2 driver without any problems, on a Radeon R7 360. Might be worth updating? Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted November 24, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 24, 2020 I'm also on 20.9.1 for my older AMD machine. I'm going to update to 20.11.1. Saying that though, I haven't noticed any performance isues How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 @Chris B and @emmrecs01 Thanks for the info. I'm a bit hesitant to update to the 20.11.1 driver just yet, particularly since you are having no issues with the 20.9.1 driver and it seems to be running well with all my other applications. What CPU are you running? I am running a Ryzen 3700x with 32 MB of 3200 MHz Ram. See full system info attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted November 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2020 You don't have a weird configuration in Preferences like this do you: So using the iGPU or WARP with OpenCL (I don't know if that makes a difference). How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 My Preferences are shown in my original post. So no. I don't think I have a weird configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djoule Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Hi Vasto I have exactly the same CG as you, with 20.4.2 driver and 1.9 beta with hardware acceleration is really faster than 1.8. It's night and day for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 Thanks @Djoule. That is good to know. Can you post a shot of your Preferences? What is your Ram and CPU? Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djoule Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I have 16Gb Ram and an I5-6400 CPU running on Win 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 Thank you @Djoule. It appears we don't have the same graphics card. I have an RX 5700 and you have an RX 570. Perhaps that is the reason for your success an my apparent lack of success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djoule Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 oops sorry @Vasto7 I read to fast. I'm confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 Now Running Beta 1.9.0.876 with AMD Driver 20.11.2 and still have the slow and lagging performance. Seems like the Beta doesn't like my RX 5700 GPU. Unticking Open CL corrects the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Same for me, Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, GTX 1080, performance with HW accell is badbeta 1.9.0.876 Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 Now Running Beta 1.9.0.885 with AMD Driver 20.12.1 and still have the slow and lagging performance. Unticking Open CL corrects the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolkerMB Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Hi there! I'm facing the same issue as @Vasto7. Compared with 1.8 the 1.9 beta with hardware acceleration switched on is significantly slower (probably at 30-40 % the speed of v1.8). As Vasto7's my system is powered by a Radeon RX 5700X as well (driver 20.11.2). Perhaps an issue with Radeon cards/drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 Now Running Beta 1.9.0.911 with AMD Driver 20.12.1 and still having the slow and lagging performance, particularly when loading files. Unticking Open CL corrects the issue. If I monitor my GPU, it is clearly being utilized. However, it takes on the order of 30 seconds to load a raw file. Once, loaded, this Beta version, seems less laggy than the previous versions, but I can't quantify this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted January 29, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2021 Hi all, I really am not sure what's happening. For me, OpenCL drastically improved brush performance in Affinity Photo. Is this with certain brushes? Do the ones in the Basic category work ok? I think there might be a few burhses than are not yet optimised for OpenCL—this will likely include user-installed ones from other sources. I wonder if you have other tablet drivers installed? We've seen issues where having Wacom and say, Huion drivers installed at the same time cause issues. How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 I have an Huion Tablet driver installed, but don't use the Tablet much in AP. As I said, the most obvious issue for me seems to be loading files. I would say this takes on the order of 10 times longer than when OpenCL is disabled. Not sure how a Tablet driver would be having that effect. Based on @VolkeMB comment above, it seems that this might be related to the AMD GPUs not being handled correctly in AP. Hopefully, one of the developers can get their hands on a Radeon RX 5700X and see if they can recreate the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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