Designer and Photo brushes and menu changeovers slow and lagging in V2 compared to V1

[Stephen LoPiano]

I did not purchase an Affinity Photo V1 only trial yet did purchase Designer and Publisher V1.   Less than a month ago I purchased a V2 suite that includes all three upgraded versions of Photo, Designer, and Publisher.    When using any brushes for digital painting in version 2 of Photo or Designer the brushes lag behind using a Wacom Intuous tablet.    Also noticed that switching between tool menu options is very slow in responding and changing over.    Did not have this same pattern of a problem with Designer V1 or the trial version of Photo V1.     Using Windows 10 Home Version, Intel I7 Sixth Generation CPU, 32gb RAM, RX6600 Radeon AMD graphics card with Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1 graphics card driver, and Gigabytes motherboard and bios.   I find it hard to believe that this machine is no longer compatible with Affinity upgrades due to obsolescence, by today's standards this machine is old with CPU yet still powerful with memory and graphics card.   Do not understand why this slow motion type of reaction is occurring when Version 1 worked fine.     Any suggestions on how to improve performance?

     

[paolo.limoncelli]

Hi Stephen,

I do not use Windows version intensively, but my macOS is even older than your PC and things seems to be pretty smooth.

Aside Wacom settings (you did not mention them, but I guess you have updated drivers there) did you check HW Acceleration in settings?

Also... How many brushes are in your library?

I strongly suggest to avoid automatic import v1 > v2 because it could make a mess, and port them them manually.

On 11/29/2022 at 1:10 AM, Stephen LoPiano said:

Also noticed that switching between tool menu options is very slow in responding and changing over.

This makes me think that there is something more behind maybe?