August6 Posted August 7, 2021 Posted August 7, 2021 I'm using Windows 10. The last two versions of Affinity Photo things got slower and slower, now it's unusable. I like Photo, what can be done?? Quote
Komatös Posted August 7, 2021 Posted August 7, 2021 Deactivating the hardware acceleration may help. Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Performance and untick OpenCl acceleration. stokerg 1 Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
Tillerz Posted August 8, 2021 Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) Are you talking about general speed or startup? Using AP was not slow before or is now either (for me), but the 1.9 versions took a TON of time to start up, and now this is even slower. It seems to use like 1 core for a minute, but it's jumping from 1 core to the next every second or something. And EVERYTHING is slow, the whole PC is unusable in that time. I have never seen a program doing that. And I have a fast PC and fast SSDs. My bet still is that there is some issue with font loading or something where it also parses a large XML or similar and is just busy traversing the file up and down. (I mean for THAT bug I at least have a workaround. Open AP, go make coffee, and then don't close it again for the whole day). But still it is annoying if you quickly want to edit something and haven't opened it yet, and you sit there, waiting for it to complete startup. Edited August 8, 2021 by Tillerz Quote
Staff stokerg Posted August 19, 2021 Staff Posted August 19, 2021 Hi @August6and Welcome to the Forums, Have you tried disabling openCL as pointed out by @Komatösand did it improve the speed of Affinity? Quote
Wuzz62 Posted August 19, 2021 Posted August 19, 2021 So slow! I am using current windows with i7 & 16gb ram, it's slower than than 1.9 !! Hardware acceleration is off (and can't be turned on due to AF pop up saying configuration not supported. This is so bad, screen update really dragging! Quote
Komatös Posted August 19, 2021 Posted August 19, 2021 Hello @Wuzz62 and welcome to the forums. Make sure the GPU driver and Windows are up to date. Please check also with sfc if Windows system components are damaged. To do this, right-click on the Windows Start menu icon. Select CMD (Administrator). In the new window, type sfc /scannow and confirm with Enter. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
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