I downloaded the trial version of Affinity Photo V2 and my Filter Forge has stopped working :(

[AITCH]

 

Anybody know why this would happen?  My Filter Forge still works in Version 1

Thank you in advance

[R C-R]

FF 9 works for me on my Mac with V2 but the final application of the filter is very, very slow. It can take up to a minute or so before it appears in the AP document, long enough that I thought the app had hanged.

[AITCH]

Yes it's FF9 that I am using mate 🙂 (I don't use mac either)

I tried the following, I took off Affinity V1 and reinstalled the trial of V2....Filter Forge still didn't work. I then uninstalled V2, put V1 back on and Filter Forge 9 works perfectly.

If I didn't use FF9 I wouldn't really be too bothered but it's just my luck this is happening 😄

 

[firstdefence]

https://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=16729&MID=161542

[AITCH]

10 hours ago, firstdefence said:

https://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=16729&MID=161542

Looks like I will have to keep V1 too then for the time being in order to use FF9, thanks firstdefence 👍

[emmrecs01]

16 hours ago, R C-R said:

FF 9 works for me on my Mac with V2 but the final application of the filter is very, very slow. It can take up to a minute or so before it appears in the AP document, long enough that I thought the app had hanged.

The same happens for me using FF10 in APh 2, Win 10.

[AITCH]

7 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

No problem here with the old ff4 version.
One needs to point to the x64 folder and maybe change the config file from false to true like;
(copy the configfile out of the x64folder>change its text and save>copy it back into the x64 folder)

Yeah I did that and it still doesn't work but thanks anyway mate

[Andy05]

I didn't even know that there are problems with Photo and FilterForge (10). I just pointed the new Affinity V2 apps to the folder and everything worked out of the box. I have all my Photoshop compatible plugins (free and commercial ones) in a folder structure on a different drive (not system drive). Simply because I have several programs, which use these plugins. Works like a charm and I never had any issues with any of the apps which need to start those plugins.

Maybe that's the culprit? Because Windows still restricts the access for some apps to some of the system folders here and there, inclusive user, programs and programs (x86)

[AITCH]

I received this message this morning from Affinity regarding the FF Internal Error message:

This is a result of us switching to MSIX installers I'm afraid as this installs the software as a Windows app which is sandboxed making the apps files hidden. This also means the app no longer uses a .EXE file so unfortunately at this point in time its not possible for it to be used as an external editor in other apps. We are working on providing a .EXE in the future to solve this problem, however at this time we don't have an ETA for when this will be available.

 

[AITCH]

OK so Filter Forge 12 trial working in Affinity Photo 2 but there's not a cat in Hell's chance I'm forking out more money for upgrade frpm FF9 when it works perfectly well in Affinity V1, bloody ridiculous 👎

[firstdefence]

On Mac, Filter Forge 9 works fine for me in Affinity Photo V2, I'm on Monterey 12.6.2 still a bit laggy applying the filter, maybe 25 -30 secs but at least it works. 

Girl in a boat.zip this contains the bump map, normal, diffuse and image exports just for sample really to show it works.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

On Mac, Filter Forge 9 works fine for me in Affinity Photo V2, I'm on Monterey 12.6.2 still a bit laggy applying the filter, maybe 25 -30 secs but at least it works. 

It also works, if slowly, on my Mac running Catalina.

[AITCH]

How have you guys got FF9 working in Affinity V2?  Fair play to you like but I just can't do it

[R C-R]

24 minutes ago, AITCH said:

How have you guys got FF9 working in Affinity V2?  Fair play to you like but I just can't do it

With the Mac version of AP V2, it just seems to work without me doing anything special. If you are running the Windows version, as you seem to be, then there may be some special procedure to get it working but I have no idea what that might be.

[AITCH]

I think you have a good point RC-R, Mac users don't seem to be experiencing any problems.

The special procedure for Windows users presently is to purchase Filter Forge 12, it's compatible with AP2 😏👎

[firstdefence]

There is a @Filter Forge presence on this forum not sure if they can help for our windows brethren.

[AITCH]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

There is a @Filter Forge presence on this forum not sure if they can help for our windows brethren.

Thanks mate, I wasn't aware  👍

[AITCH]

I wasn't going to but I thought sod it and bought FF12 (60% discount)

It works in AP2 but I definitely noticed a difference on my 8gb laptop in speed/performance when wanting the effects to be added.

Ah well I guess there's worse things to worry about in the world lol

Have a good day everyone 👍