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Hi everybody, I've come to you to ask for an advice. I want to transfer from Adobe to Affinity but there is one thing that can not stop bother me. Using adjustment layers such as curves, recolour, levels, etc.. in Affinity Photo is too laggy, not very responsive and overall.. just sluggish. Everything else works great with no lag whatsoever but this is really one thing I cant get over. As far as I know there should not be a problem when it comes to hardware - Ryzen 7 5800H, rtx 3050, 16gb ram. Thanks! 🙂

EDIT: This problem does not occur in develop persona. Any changes to curves or whatever else is smooth in there.

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Hey PavelPesekk,

What tool do you have selected when you are adjusting the curves? We've found that if you have say, a selection brush selected, dragging a curve is far laggier than when you have the Move Tool selected. Have a look and see if this might be it - if not, can you record a short video for us?

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15 hours ago, Chris B said:

Hey PavelPesekk,

What tool do you have selected when you are adjusting the curves? We've found that if you have say, a selection brush selected, dragging a curve is far laggier than when you have the Move Tool selected. Have a look and see if this might be it - if not, can you record a short video for us?

Hi, thanks for the tip but changing tool does not make any difference either.

Here is a video of what is going on, for some reason the window with curves was not recorded but you can still see how the changes are slow for me.

 

 

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Hey PavelPesekk,

After looking at the recording, it could be the number of Adjustment/Live Filters causing this - there's also a number of groups which probably contain more of these. Essentially, Adjustments and Live Filters need to re-render each time the canvas changes. This should be less apparent when you use Destructive Filters.

You could try merging the layers and hiding the layers below (Adjustments and Filters) and continue editing the merged pixel layer.

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Hi, I tried that and even if I merge all the layers and only work with one, the problem still persists.. it is a tough one :D..

Nevertheless.. I tried to download older versions of AP and this is not a problem with 1.7.x versions. It only starts to occur in latest versions.

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The only major change I can think of over 1.7 would be OpenCL but Hens already suggested disabling that and you said it makes no difference?

Can you share the file with me? I can run some tests - I have an RTX 3080 so the same series of GPU so we should realisticly see similar results (hopefully).

If you can share the file, I've made a private Dropbox folder for you - https://www.dropbox.com/request/i3XaKzws2hUm5TTZ8QHz

 

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Uploading right away. Yeah, disabling Open CL makes no change. But I find it strange as even previews while masking, quick selections,.. everything runs smooth as butter except for this... anyways, I think I will just keep working in 1.7 for now and see how it goes with upcoming updates.. I was thinking if there might be some problem regarding Win 11 update? Maybe it is not even Affinity thing.

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It seems fine on my 3080 - I wonder if it's falling back to your AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics? Are you able to try disabling this from Device Manager? Or before you do that, does that also show in the Preferences in the 1.7 version you're running?

I say fine - I still see the occasional render tile but your video displays them on a much more regular basis. 

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