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I know this has been broached several times, but I think it needs to be brought to the fore again because this is the major factor that prevents Photo being my default picture editor. I find I am using IrfanView to crop, adjust exposures, etc., instead of Photo.

Right now I am using Designer and I am seriously considering something else. The reason is that I click on the app icon, or 'open with' on a file, and the splash screen comes up instantly. Short pause then blank application windows, then... well, let's go and make coffee. It is actively encouraging me NOT to start Affinity products because the update check takes so long.

Further, if I right click a file and use 'open with', I should think it pretty obvious that I'm not going to think, "Oh, a new update, I'll just abort what I'm doing and update so something can break and I can't continue with what I meant to do." No, if I update it'll be right at the moment when I am wanting to do some work.

Reading other threads, I see there is apparently a way to prevent the update check on startup. But it's so secret it can only be passed on via a private message. What? You have to be kidding! Why is it so important that it's forced on us every startup (but we can then decline to do anything about it)? I can't imagine why this check is so important you're will to annoy  me to the extent that I an loath to use your product!

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36 minutes ago, JustLooking said:

Reading other threads, I see there is apparently a way to prevent the update check on startup. But it's so secret it can only be passed on via a private message. What? You have to be kidding! Why is it so important that it's forced on us every startup (but we can then decline to do anything about it)? I can't imagine why this check is so important you're will to annoy  me to the extent that I an loath to use your product!

Can you not simply change the 'Check for updates' frequency or are you referring to something else entirely?

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Posted

That kind of option would be great, but on Windows it doesn't exist.

However, I've now fixed it via the registry which, of course, makes it an entirely manual 'check the website' thing now. Sometimes I think you Mac owners have far too easy a life!

 

 

Posted
1 minute ago, JustLooking said:

Sometimes I think you Mac owners have far too easy a life!

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Posted

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Serif\Affinity\Photo\1

and change the value of No Update Check to 1

at your own risk of course, usual caveats for registry edits

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Posted
48 minutes ago, JustLooking said:

Doesn't make it start up any faster, though

The update check takes no measureable time for me (or none that I know how to measure).

Are you sure it's not enumerating fonts? That's a common reason for slow application startup on Windows.

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Posted

I'm sure of nothing! But I do seem to have a fair number of fonts. Is there a way to reduce their effect? Other applications that use fonts don't seem to be slowed much on starting.

 

Posted
1 minute ago, JustLooking said:

But I do seem to have a fair number of fonts. Is there a way to reduce their effect?

Only by using a Font Manager and keeping the fonts that you don't need inactive until you need them.

How many fonts do you have?

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Posted

Seems I have 314 items in the font directory.

However, it's more complicated than that. Using Procmon I found that Designer (which is what I'm playing with today, and which suffers the same issue) takes 6 seconds to get to the fonts and then deals with them in less than 1 second (that is, 6.393 - 6.991 relative time). But then Designer goes through them all again, and this time takes 12 seconds (7.811 - 16.748). Perhaps the first run was just scouting for the second.

But that's not all either. After the fonts Designer then spends almost 18 seconds dealing with C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\Photo.gmmp (17.027 - 34.973).

Photo.gmmp is a Windows files and, apparently, can suffer corruption. However, I just compared my live version with a downloaded 'clean' version and they were identical.

So, I am still sure of nothing :)

 

Posted

HW Acceleration off? 

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Posted

If under "drawn" you mean rendering on the canvas and desktop, then yes. Context with HW acceleration are often surprising, just search the forum, how many seemingly unrelated problems its shutdown solved.

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