Mac M1 OS Montery - Spinning pinwheel

[Frank Mueller]

I bought Affinity Photo 5 days ago and after two days it stopped working properly. With every action comes immediately the Spinning pinwheel and the program is no longer really usable.

I have a Macbook pro 14 M1 with the latest MacOS Montery version (12.4).

There are already several posts about this problem but I haven't found a real solution yet. Can someone in the forum help me how to fix the problem?
Thanks a lot
best Frank

[stokerg]

Hi @Frank Muellerand Welcome to the Forums,

If you haven't already, can you try the following: open System Preferences>Display and now disable Automatically Adjust Brightness.  Once thats done, try using Affinity and let me know the results  

[Frank Mueller]

Hi stokerg,

thank you very much, until now it looks like that it helped, so far affinity photo runs and works smoothly