version 1.9.2

[baussaron]

Hello. This version is very slow (menu that appears after several seconds for example), and closes for no reason.

[macsnapper]

For me too. I've always had slow starts esp. reading fonts, but this version is crashing every five minutes... I've gone back to 1.9.0 until the next bug fix.

Windows 10 on a decent lHP laptop.

I know Photoshop is also mucking up my system, so one day I right clicked on a text box in Publisher and got a Photoshop menu.

[sigh]

[CWF]

Macsnapper, when you went back to the older version... did you uninstall current version, or install over it?

[macsnapper]

I uninstalled first and was pleased that I after reinstalling the earlier version did not need to re-register for the licence. Each time I open now I get the notice that there is a newer version, which I ignore. So far no crashes.

cheers

Mac

[VolkerMB]

A regular source for problems is the current "unpolished" hardware acceleration. You can switch it off under "preferences -> performance" and see if it improves the situation. It is strongly advised for anyone who runs Affinity on an AMD Radeon GPU.

[macsnapper]

In my case I'm running an Intel CORE i7 with Intel Graphics 520 on board processor, but since everything is now running really well in version 1.9.0 I'm loathe to re-install the newer update...

When I do update to the next new version I'll remember your advice, thank you very much!

[Jon P]

@baussaron Did you have any luck with the above suggestions? Is the program slow opening dialogs with no document open?

Could you navigate to %AppData%\Affinity\Publisher\ and upload the 1.0 folder here, it will contain some system info and crash reports that might help

Thanks

[Loops]

Hi, I've been experiencing problems with performance in large documents. It's extremely slow whenever I try to format the text in any way.

From what I've seen (not sure it's related, but anyway):

• My CPU spikes
• The program's memory usage grows overtime.
• The program uses the hard drive whenever I input changes.
• The more I spend editing the file, the laggier it gets (3-5s response time).
• My RAM is full (0 Free, 5gb "standby")

My setup:

• I'm working with a 186 page document that's mostly text and small embedded icons (when they are linked I see no big difference).
• I have hardware acceleration disabled.
• I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with a 512Gb NVMe, 16Gb RAM, i7 1165G-7.

 

Any help/tip is appreciated!

Thanks!

[Komatös]

@Loops Are all drivers up to date? Especially those for the graphics card (iGPU). Are the manufacturer's NVMe drivers or generic Microsoft drivers installed?

[Loops]

@Komatös The NVMe's drivers are from Microsoft. I checked and had a few pending updates (Windows and Dell). I installed them and it's much better. However, it still gets a little laggy if I spend a lot of time editing (I noticed some disk operations in the resource monitor when this happened). But in general, its performance improved a lot.

 

Thanks for your help!

[Komatös]

OffTopic: 

For all those here who use a laptop/PC without a dedicated graphics card and less than 16 GB RAM, and wonder why they run into a RAM limit.  Keep in mind that the iGPU takes up to 2 GB of memory depending on the BIOS configuration.  With 8 GB RAM, in the worst case only 5.75 GB remain for Windows, drivers and background processes, as well as for all other applications and data.