Slow loading AP on iMac

[srtiwari]

I just bought Affinity Photo from the Apple Store, and love the program, even thought there is  a steep learning curve.

Everyone else seems to find it quick, but mine seems very slow to load pictures. On average  it takes  5 or more seconds for the Raw photos, and easily more than a minute for  a "stack" of 6 or 8 images.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there a way to improve speed by setting up differently ?

I have a 27" iMac, from 2010, with 2 drives, (one a Steady state), and 12 GB of RAM, running El Capitan 10.11.2

I would have thought this would be resource enough for the program. Could someone help, please ?

[Lee D]

Hi srtiwari,

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

Can you try the latest beta 1.4.1 (beta 3) available here to see if this makes any difference with the performance on your system.

 

Thanks

 

L

[srtiwari]

No, unfortunately that did not make it any faster.

Subhash

[barninga]

srtiwari, 

my imac is very similar to yours and i'd say that its performances are more or less the same. it is faster when loading jpgs and tiffs, but raw images (mine are in canon's cr2 format) take longer. that said, i find it pleasantly fast in almost any editing task.

[evtonic3]

I wonder if the posters that say that AP/AD is slow in certain things like on startup, tasks, etc, that it doesn't have to do with how clean the mac is. Surely not everyone has the same hygiene as the everyone else but if one practices good mac hygiene to clear out junk, caches, trash, etc and keep an eye on their RAM use would many of the issues posted be resolved. I personally like my mac pretty clean. I use Onyx all the time, and a couple other apps for maintenance, keep my desktop clean, and my mac is silky smooth - 2012 Mac Pro 16GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB. nothing special in hardware.

[srtiwari]

I wonder if the posters that say that AP/AD is slow in certain things like on startup, tasks, etc, that it doesn't have to do with how clean the mac is. Surely not everyone has the same hygiene as the everyone else but if one practices good mac hygiene to clear out junk, caches, trash, etc and keep an eye on their RAM use would many of the issues posted be resolved. I personally like my mac pretty clean. I use Onyx all the time, and a couple other apps for maintenance, keep my desktop clean, and my mac is silky smooth - 2012 Mac Pro 16GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB. nothing special in hardware.

 

I'm sure that is a consideration. I use Cleanmymac 3 (current version), but do have a somewhat cluttered desktop. I intend to clean up some of that - just wondered if there were any setup options in AP (memory usage etc.) that I was unaware of...