Affinity Publisher 2 frequent crashes

[WStar]

So I was excited about the 40% off sale and decided to try the software. I installed the 30-day trial. However, so far I have experienced constant crashes. I created a very simple file just to try things out, and every time I interact with an Anchor I put on a text box, the software closes unexpectedly. I'm running Windows 11. Anyone else having this problem?

[WStar]

So I've tried this a few more times, and here's what's happening. I right-click on the element, choose anchor Properties. The name of the anchor is there, and I click Okay. Then the program acts like it's doing something for about two seconds, and then the window goes away.

[WStar]

Any clue whether this is likely a corrupted file, or related to a known bug?

[RichardMH]

First thing to try is turning off hardware acceleration if you haven't tried already. Edit->Preferences->Performance. And make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.

[MikeTO]

Just to confirm, are you using 2.0.3?

[thomaso]

5 hours ago, WStar said:

Any clue whether this is likely a corrupted file

This would be a corrupted file if same/similar tasks do not cause this crashes in another file.
If other files crash, too, then also the crash report might shed some light on the 'crashing thread' respectively the task triggering the crash.