DiggerJapan Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Hi I've just moved from photoshop to Affinity Photo and would like to keep it this way. How ever i am getting some huge performance issues. I have a brand new Mac Studio with M1 Max & 64GB RAM. I was expecting the app to fly buy it just lags and stutters. So much so im on the verge of signing up for Photoshop again. If i have a 16bit Tiff file open and i try to crop it, it seriously lags and takes me almost 1min to even position the crop frame. Even on other smaller files i get the spinning beach ball while the software thinks about something. It could be Document resizing, filters etc. Is there anything i can do to solve this? Or is this a series of bug issues that will be fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted August 2, 2022 Staff Share Posted August 2, 2022 It's worth trying with Metal Compute disabled, open the apps Preferences > Performance and uncheck, restart the app and try your workflow and see how the performance is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiggerJapan Posted August 2, 2022 Author Share Posted August 2, 2022 Hi Lee I will try that, but wont that also degrade performance? I have also tried unchecking the adaptive display brightness option as i read that might be causing issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middel47 Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 I'd like to let you know that my performance went backwards when I moved from a MacBook Pro 13" with Intel i7 to a 16" M1 Max with 64GB. For what it's worth I have a 4TB version. When compositing images in AP, the software became irresponsive while brushing in masks and adjustment layers. At first I thought it were driver bugs from my Wacom or macOS. But finding this thread made me try disabling Metal Compute and this did the job for me. I did edit some images and did not get the irresponsiveness after. When things change I'll get back to this thread. I do feel that I might miss out something when the Metal Compute is fixed (but disabled on my Mac.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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