montyBlue Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Nvidia driver: 465.89 Monitor refresh rate: 100Hz Even though I don't have g-sync enabled for windowed applications, affinity products will still change my monitors refresh rate when doing anything leading to a LOT of stutter. If a choose 'fixed refresh rate' for affinity products in the driver control panel the stutter is gone, but I get a black screen for a split second every couple seconds. Also bad. The only way to get the applications to behave nicely is to turn g-sync completely off, and well, why should I need to do that? It's a feature I've grown to rely on quite a bit. I've seen this issue reported on the affinity forums as far back as 2019 and I don't understand why 2 years later it's still a thing. I certainly didn't have this issue with photoshop and I'd rather not return to it. How can I make affinity products play nice with my monitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyFriendJack81 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 +1 This is super annoying! Affects Af Photo and Af Designer - i don'T own Publisher so can't say anything about this. I've turned off hardware acceleration - also a really bad option to get around this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted May 4, 2021 Staff Share Posted May 4, 2021 Which Nvidia card are you using as I use the following G-Sync settings with my RTX 2070 with the monitor running at 165Mhz refresh and my Affinity apps are not getting any stuttering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyBlue Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 @DWright I have a 2080ti that's outputting to my monitor, and a 1080ti that I use for other stuff (but is not connected to the display). The stuttering occurs regardless of hardware acceleration being enabled or not inside Affinity apps. I have my gsync set up the same way as in your screenshot. If you don't want to just take my word for it I can record a video of how Affinity products change my monitors refresh rate (the monitor has a hardware refresh rate overlay I can enable), would that be helpful? There is literally no other program I have installed on my system that behaves like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted May 4, 2021 Staff Share Posted May 4, 2021 I am running driver 461.72 I will update to 465.89 and see if this causes the issue that you re having Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyBlue Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 @DWright Let me know if that impacts Affinity products in any way. I wouldn't mind rolling back my driver to get stable performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyBlue Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 It's been a while now, and after a few driver updates this is still an issue. It's definitely not an issue isolated to just Affinity Photo as I gave Krita a shot and had the same thing happen. However, I also gave Corel Paintshop pro a shot, and it did not have this issue. So for the time being I will switch to using Paintshop as it does not require me to switch my graphics driver settings for it to function properly. If this ever gets resolved I would happily return, but just like I won't drive a car whose power steering goes dead every few seconds, I won't use a program that flickers my screen every few seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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