Spinning beachball M1 Mac

[jmwellborn]

@MikeTO  same here.  It is the automatic brightness setting in the OS systems preferences that seems to cause the problem.  I hope your comment will help @LesC.

[LesC]

On 10/8/2022 at 5:00 PM, MikeTO said:

Now that you have it working, try turning hardware acceleration back on. I have hardware acceleration on but automatic brightness off.

I'll do as you suggested (switch hardware acceleration back on), and let you know whether the beachballs return or not. It would be a pity, now that I have a faster iMac, not to make use of hardware acceleration. Whatever it does, the name suggests some speed increase.

[LesC]

Meanwhile, on both of our computers, hardware acceleration has been switched on for more than a week, whilst automatic brightness has remained off.
Result: no more beachballing on both our iMacs.

[Robin gotha]

I’ve used macs since 1986 and can’t understand why my nice new shiny M1 imac can’t cope with Publisher. I’ve tried everything members suggest; tinkering with brightness settings etc and still, the very moment I do anything, replace image, select text box, select image, the very unwelcome beach ball. I’ve had to revert to my old iMac which reduces the number of things I can do with publisher. I really like the app but finding it now totally unusable on the M1 so I ask myself do I need the worry of it? I know others are having a grand time with it. Must I go back to overpriced Adobe or desperate Quark?  Can other factors play such a big role? I’m absolutely baffled and depressed that nobody has a positive answer to it. HELP!!!! PS when I replace image it always appears upside down. Nearly forgot to mention that… Robin Ray

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Robin gotha said:

I’ve used macs since 1986 and can’t understand why my nice new shiny M1 imac can’t cope with Publisher. I’ve tried everything members suggest; tinkering with brightness settings etc and still, the very moment I do anything, replace image, select text box, select image, the very unwelcome beach ball. I’ve had to revert to my old iMac which reduces the number of things I can do with publisher. I really like the app but finding it now totally unusable on the M1 so I ask myself do I need the worry of it? I know others are having a grand time with it. Must I go back to overpriced Adobe or desperate Quark?  Can other factors play such a big role? I’m absolutely baffled and depressed that nobody has a positive answer to it. HELP!!!! PS when I replace image it always appears upside down. Nearly forgot to mention that… Robin Ray

If your problem is like the rest of us, you need to disable Automatically Adjust Brightness in Preferences/Settings > Display. This setting causes the spinning beachball to appear constantly when using Affinity.