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Battery drain and Lag in Affinity 2


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I was very excited about Affinity 2. I welcome the changes. I love the new features. I am eager to support Affinity

HOWEVER, when I used Affinity Photo to draw and it lagged sooooooo much (on Windows 11), every pen stroke, took a second delay to start drawing. I tried restarting many times without opening anything else.

Then I HAD TO REINSTALL Affinity 1 - Photo. The side by side comparison was STARK - chalk and cheese (Affinity 1 on the left, Affinity 2 on the right). Same dimensions and same brush size. Affinity1 Photo can paint a lot more efficiently and quickly, almost instantly. Affinity2 Photo lagged, and couldn't keep up. It's shocking.

Affinity Publisher 2 also has noticeably drained my battery a lot quicker. The usual readings previously were 25-28% battery drain. But now it jumped to 45%. The fans work harder when I have Affinity 2 on now.

I notice files aren't backwards compatible. So I have to be careful. It would be great if it could, especially when new features weren't used.

I'm really hoping that optimisations are underway quickly. 

(My laptop is a brand new Lenovo 2 Yogo 9i 2022. Running Windows 11 (Top specs) - A premium range 2 in 1 laptop. Received in October.)

I regretfully have to downgrade to Affinity 1 Photo to get the performance I want. (as great as the new features are).

 

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@Framelynx: You may find that Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) is now enabled in V2 in Preferences, Performance, but was disabled in V1. If so, try disabling it in V2 and see if that helps.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

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On 11/12/2022 at 12:59 AM, walt.farrell said:

: You may find that Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) is now enabled in V2 in Preferences, Performance, but was disabled in V1. If so, try disabling it in V2 and see if that helps.

Wow! That actually worked great! Thanks so much for that advice!

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On 11/11/2022 at 2:59 PM, walt.farrell said:

@Framelynx: You may find that Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL) is now enabled in V2 in Preferences, Performance, but was disabled in V1. If so, try disabling it in V2 and see if that helps.

I guess a lot of users are sick of  "disable HW acceleration (since Serif still can´t get it to work properly on non-MacOS-Devices..)".

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