pixartia Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Photo, Designer and Publisher - all apps launch painfully slow. Even both Photoshop and Lightroom are starting blazingly fast in comparison with Affinity Suite. Whatever, it doesn't seem OK and any kind of normal on my MacBook Pro 15" 2017 equipped with 3,1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 and 16 GB RAM. Thank you! André Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Possibly this FAQ article explains it? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixartia Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 1:43 PM, walt.farrell said: Possibly this FAQ article explains it? No, it doesn't. Quote 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...
garbagedude Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 mliving, thanks! This was very helpfull, my 'old' 2019 I7 Macbook Pro is faster with starting the Affinity apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mliving Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 My fast open ride is over! Well tonight I opened Designer and it took at least 45 secs to open. Tried the render toggle, no change. Nothing has changed on my MacBook Pro except for adding a few fonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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