Affinity Photo - GPU usage jumps to near 100% when using ctrl+A (select all)

[Zeriba]

Hello all,

Apologies if I am posting this in the section

For some my GPU spikes up to 93-100% usage when I use select all (ctrl+A) within a document even if it is a fresh document with nothing in it (screenshot attached).

Affinity Photo Version: 1.8.5.703

PC Specs:

Display: Dell U2713H (2560x1440) 

GPU: 8GB Nvidia RTX 2060 Super

CPU: Intel i5-10600K

Is there any way to fix this? Any and all help is much appreciated

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Zeriba

As far as I know, the ‘marching ants’ of the selection use a GPU but I don’t know why they would use more than 90% of its capability.
Having the same-sized document (same RGB/8 colour profile) open on my not-high-spec laptop and using Select All gives me a GPU usage of between 16% and 36%, which is lower than your numbers.
That’s not an answer but it might show that what you are seeing may not be expected.

[Zeriba]

Thanks for the Welcome @GarryP

I see it was very strange, I tried resetting my GPU settings to defaults via the Nvidia Control Panel and that seems to have fixed the issue, now the 'marching ants' only use 1% of my GPU lol.

Thanks anyway!

 

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.
I should probably do some settings-wrangling on my own GPUs but I don’t know enough to know if I would be making things better or worse.
Good to hear your usage percentage is now down to a reasonable value though.