Johan buitelaar Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 How is it possible that Affinity photo starting up on a Mac mini with a m1 chip is slow (latest update) and starting up with Rosseta on the same Mac mini is much faster while the app is already native for the m1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 23, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 23, 2021 Hi @Johan buitelaar, Welcome to Affinity Forums Sorry the delay getting back to you. How are you comparing this? Did you start Affinity Photo running on emulation and natively both after a cold start of the system or did you run Affinity natively first and without turning off the system switched to emulation and run the app again? I believe you did the latter... There's a known issue related with the OS that may be interfering with the results (there's a delay the first time you run the app after a cold start. The second time always starts/launch way faster). To check this properly start Affinity Photo running natively after a cold start of the system and count the time it takes to launch. Then switch to emulation mode restart the computer, start Affinity Photo and count the time it takes to launch again. Do the times differ in these conditions, how (which one is faster)? You should see the differences are negligible (a couple seconds faster if started natively at maximum). The delay you are experiencing on first start is due to to an issue related with Big Sur as explained above (possibly Catalina as well) and not with the way you are running the app (emulation versus natively). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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