Constant Beach balls and 100% CPU usage.

[Barrowman]

Hi, I'm finding Designer more and more unusable due to the the amount of time it spends beachballing. I'll start working and everything is flowing wonderfully, suddenly it then starts beach-balling on the most innocuous of things, ie select something. Then it just becomes a total pain.

I have a MacBook Pro 16" M1 MAX with 32GB of RAM. I does the same on my 13" M1 Macbook as well.

Any idea what could be causing it, as it is a real pain, I used to love this app, but now I dread using it.

[stokerg]

Hi @Barrowman,

Could you try the advice on this post: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/152762-macbook-m1-pro-terrible-lag-beach-ball-nearly-unusable-text-feature/#comment-918932 and see if that resolves the issue for you  

[Barrowman]

Thanks @stokerg I'll give that a shot!!