Mark Ingram Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer BetaPurpose: FixesRequirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft StoreAs 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 Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (introduced in 944 beta) Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes) Fixed being unable to create custom export presets for PDF export Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped Fixed Copy As SVG preventing Affinity data being added to the clipboard Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files 1.9.1.944 release notes Uwe367, Uncle Mez, Dave Quail and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks for the latest update...so quick! quickly had a look at SVG issue...much better thank you!....I will try and break it later! Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMan Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks for latest update -as reported earlier, Beta 1.9.1.944 would not load so great to find Serif have located and fixed the problem so quickly; Beta 1.9.1.952 loads successfully so I can carry on testing and learning. Well done!! Windows 10 Home Version 20H2, AMD Radeon E1-7010 processor with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics 12GB RAM, Affinity Designer 1.9, Photo 1.9, Publisher 1.9 Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.1.952, Photo Beta 1.9.1.952, Publisher 1.9.1.952 Patrick Connor and Mark Ingram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am789 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Hi there I just downloaded the trial and it keeps crashing on my laptop when I try to create a new file. So I checked the support forums and downloaded the Beta. However, my 90 day trial key does not work on it :( Can you direct me to a where I can download a patch to fix the crashing - it is unusable presently. Also, is there a way to use the trial key with the beta? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 1 hour ago, am789 said: Hi there I just downloaded the trial and it keeps crashing on my laptop when I try to create a new file. So I checked the support forums and downloaded the Beta. However, my 90 day trial key does not work on it Can you direct me to a where I can download a patch to fix the crashing - it is unusable presently. Also, is there a way to use the trial key with the beta? Thanks Hi, sounds like you probably need to uninstall and reinstall your graphics card drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am789 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Strange. Everything else seems to be working fine, except for this app. Is there a log file or something I can check before I do the driver change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 7 hours ago, am789 said: Strange. Everything else seems to be working fine, except for this app. Is there a log file or something I can check before I do the driver change? %APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0\Log.txt may give some info (please upload here, or make a new thread in the non-beta forum). We have had similar reports from many users over the years, and we find that an uninstall and reinstall of the driver normally always fixes the problem. You could also try changing the renderer in preferences, that would confirm it's your drivers at fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Hi - Im relatively new to Affinity and use it for basic image sublimation printing. Ive just downloaded version of Affinity Designer and now shuts down when ever i press print. What do i need to do - i need advice in the simplist form pleasee im not up to speed with terminology or am i techy . Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sujithta Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Hi Ready, Forget the technical problems or bugs... Simply export to pdf and print that from any pdf reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 @Mark Ingram first of all sorry for asking here but, I've not seen or experienced a real change on the isometric functions and even the small 3D functions provided into AfDesigner. I mean we should be able to rotate object in a proper way with real time preview. I may be mistaken on this but I believe that AfDesigner is actually mature for having descent 3D functionalities. Relying on external apps to make basics works or even a simple long shadow or just projected shadow using (per example) the lightning tool, doing that kind of job using an external tools can turn to be(come) a nightmare and requires a massive learning time and resources just for simple tricks we should be capable of doing from our main tool. Please feel free to move this if posted on a wrong topic, i just believed such function should already pops in beta releases/builds before v2 hit our doors and become the standard. Be Blessed. Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtrx Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hello! I click the Click here to download the latest beta link, but nothing happened. I cant download this designer beta. Please help. Thanks. etiennepisano2862 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 All well here. Browser causing the problem? Mtrx 1 ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 11 minutes ago, Mtrx said: Hello! I click the Click here to download the latest beta link, but nothing happened. I cant download this designer beta. Please help. Thanks. This is due to the Chrome browser security feature, right click the link and select "Open link in new tab" and your download will start Mtrx 1 To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtrx Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Yes, thanks. Google Chrome cant download, but in Edge it works. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 just got an Nvidia Quadro K2000 with 2GB VRam but can't enable "OpenCL compute acceleration" I'm currently on WIndows 10 Pro N rel. 20h2 Any fix on this? Will next allow that or ... I should consider reinstalling ? Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 16, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2021 8 minutes ago, Uncle Mez said: just got an Nvidia Quadro K2000 with 2GB VRam but can't enable "OpenCL compute acceleration" Unfortunately from what I can tell looking at it's datasheet this card does not support DirectX Hardware Feature Level 12 and therefore cannot be used for OpenCL. If you go into DXDIAG you can see what feature levels are supported: Mark Ingram and Uncle Mez 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Sean P said: this card does not support DirectX Hardware Feature Level 12 and therefore cannot be used for OpenCL. Thank you so much. My next hunting party will be to find a card that's full Dx12 but for now ... i've tested and it runs faster and even set it to benefit of the basic acceleration the card can offer via Win10 functionalities and I'm happy ... much better response time. Now waiting for the next build is there is one coming around the corner. Once again, Thank you so much! Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3Alchemist Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Unfortunately Photo and Designer still crashes on me on the splashscreen with this beta version as I've described here. Where can I find download links for 1.8.x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 14 minutes ago, Th3Alchemist said: Unfortunately Photo and Designer still crashes on me on the splashscreen with this beta version as I've described here. Where can I find download links for 1.8.x? Did you try to run the beta a second time? I'm hopeful that it will work on the second run. You seem to have the same problem as @simono in the thread (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/132809-apps-wont-launch-on-win10-after-upgrade-to-19/). Your Intel drivers are causing a crash when we query the OpenCL capabilities of your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3Alchemist Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 22 hours ago, Mark Ingram said: Did you try to run the beta a second time? I'm hopeful that it will work on the second run. You seem to have the same problem as @simono in the thread (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/132809-apps-wont-launch-on-win10-after-upgrade-to-19/). Your Intel drivers are causing a crash when we query the OpenCL capabilities of your system. You're right thank you! It worked after a second attempt. Unfortunately I don't have Intel drivers updates available on my system. Mark Ingram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am789 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hello I had to reinstall windows due to an HD upgrade and after doing that I re-installed the display drivers. Seems to be working well now. Thanks! Mark Ingram and Patrick Connor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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