Tombobo Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 Hi there, First off, I love all the Affinity products, and have been using them for years for their speed, simplicity and stability. Unfortunately since I moved to M1, that experience is being undermined by spinning beach balls, freezing and slow response at times.. Both Designer and Photo are affected but neither are crashing so I can't send in any reports. It seems really random as well- sometimes when im selecting something, or moving something, or adjusting something. Its really frustrating and disruptive to workflow. Latest version of Monterey (12.3.1) and latest updates of Affinity designer (1.10.5)/ Photo (1.10.5) Am I alone? Any help or just knowing the team are aware of these problems and on the case would be appreciated. Thanks! Quote
v_kyr Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 The following might -according to your post- be then still valid even under newer Monterey versions ... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Tombobo Posted May 28, 2022 Author Posted May 28, 2022 HI @v_kyr thanks that sounds exactly right. Unfortunately the problems are still there for me...Any knowledge of this being resolved for others with an update? Quote
Tombobo Posted May 28, 2022 Author Posted May 28, 2022 just a thought- Im going to uninstall and re download the apps from App Store and see if that make a difference... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quote
v_kyr Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 Don't have/use M1 hardware with MacOS Monterey 12.3.1, so people who use these too might can tell you instead, how the Affinity apps do behave for them then in contrast here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Staff NathanC Posted May 30, 2022 Staff Posted May 30, 2022 Hi @Tombobo, You could try disabling auto brightness in System Preferences > Display, some users have found this reduces the occurrences of the beachball as it stops notifications of the brightness values changing. Additionally, Try disabling Hardware Acceleration and changing the Display setting to OpenGl/OpenGl(Basic) to see if this makes any improvement. man-named-zeus 1 Quote
PgUp Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 Switching to OpenGL seems to have fixed it for me, thanks! The crazy thing is that it's been working perfectly fine on Metal for the 2 or so weeks since I got this M1 Macbook Air. And today, suddenly it was all beachballs all the time. NathanC 1 Quote
man-named-zeus Posted June 8, 2022 Posted June 8, 2022 So I disabled hardware acceleration under performance settings. That seems to have fixed it. I didn't even need to disable my auto brightness. Edit: my display settings are on OpenGL Quote
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