Michael_the_second Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Today I installed the update for Photo version 1.92 for MacOS 11.2.3 and still a slow startup for about 15 seconds (so do Publisher and Designer), than its worky until you close the application. Starting the app again, aprox. 2 hours later the same happend, waiting for Photo to start and watching the bounching app icon. That sucks, still not solved. Regards Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Erik Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Same here... strange because we have had this issue before in 1.8 (which had been solved). On my windows machine no problem, it just starts up in an instance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasp Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Not happening for me - Affinity store versions. Block internet access for these apps, see if things improve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_the_second Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 5 hours ago, thomasp said: Not happening for me - Affinity store versions. Block internet access for these apps, see if things improve? Not worky, still poor performance with a bounching app icon, after a app started it is fine working with it. Closing an app and do restart Photo, Designer or Publisher (bought from serif app store) the same game again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasp Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I get three bounces for both Designer and Photo icons then they become operational. If it's not the app surfing the net then perhaps it's some OS daemon verifying their certificate, talking to a server. My OS is rather locked down and a lot of daemons are blocked from net access, including many Apple ones - perhaps that's the reason I get no delays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 1, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 1, 2021 Hi @Michael_the_second, @zebra, Thanks for your reports. The dev team is aware of the issue and already identified the cause however it wasn't yet possible to fix it for 1.9.2 without compromising other part of the code/functionality of the app. Thanks for your understanding/patience. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_the_second Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 2 hours ago, MEB said: Hi @Michael_the_second, @zebra, Thanks for your reports. The dev team is aware of the issue and already identified the cause however it wasn't yet possible to fix it for 1.9.2 without compromising other part of the code/functionality of the app. Thanks for your understanding/patience. Thank you for your reply, so I am looking forward that serif will fix this annoying app start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 just adding my voice too - ive had the slow startup issue across all Affinity Apps for a while including this week's 1.9.2 update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hi @tariq, See may reply to your other post here for an explanation of what's going on. Unfortunately we couldn't fix this for v.1.9.2 because the fix would cause issues elsewhere in the app. We are still working on this. Thanks for your understanding and patience. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_the_second Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Here I go again, hopefully not, on my own 🙂 Photo 1.93 (apple store) and the other Serif Apps Designer (Apple Store) and Publisher (Serif store) still have a slow start up, approx. 30 bumps till they start up, I same issues as in Version 1.92. Did Serif called that fixed? MacOS 11.2.3 / 4GHZ Core I-7 /16 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 13, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 13, 2021 Hi @Michael_the_second, Welcome to Affinity Forums Please check this post for an explanation of what's going on. This issue is still open/being worked on and wasn't fixed for v1.9.3 because the fix could cause other issues elsewhere in the app - see this post as well for more details. Thanks for your understanding and patience. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mliving Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 I "had" the same problem with my new M1 Max MacBook and I tried a couple of suggestions I found here in the Affinity forums and while one suggestion (copy app to Desktop, rename or delete original app, copy app back to Applications folder) cut the start up time almost in half, it still took quite a bit longer then Publisher which opens in 2 secs. So I was looking in the Preferences in Designer and I noticed that Display rendering was set to OpenGL so I changed it to Metal and restarted my MacBook Pro and Designer and Photo now open in 2 sec. just like Publisher. Hope this helps everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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