Affinity V2 slow/laggy rendering with AMD 6700xt

[Vhenzor]

I have terrible performance when using my AMD 6700xt gpu has renderer in any Affinity V2 apps. Every time I have to zoom in/out, move the canvas or draw with a brush I can feel some lag/stutter for a sec or two and the liquify persona render run far behind the mouse. If I switch the renderer for WARP everything feels smooth, but it's super taxing on the CPU.

The problem persists with openCL on or off, I don't have those problems with any apps in Affinity V1. Bios, Chipset, GPU and Windows are up-to-date. I bought the V2 after upgrading from gtx1060 to 6700xt because hardware acceleration can't be enable with AMD GPU on V1, but it seems that V2 have other problems...

It just feels bad that Affinity have a so poor support for AMD GPU on V1 and V2 when all my other graphical apps work just fine; Clip Studio Paint, Krita, the old CS6 suite, at this point even Photopea run smoother.

 

Spec.:
Windows 11 22h2
CPU: amd ryzen 5600
GPU: amd 6700xt
RAM: 16gb ddr4 3200mhz
MOBO: B450

Edited January 9, 2023 by Vhenzor

[Vhenzor]

After a bit more testing, Warp renderer in V2 do not solve all the stutter problem, moving the canvas feel better with warp but moving or rotating an image feel worst.

Funny thing, most of the stutter can be eliminated by downgrading the amd gpu driver from the newest stable 22.11.2 to the previous stable 22.5.1, but 22.11.2 have 5-10% better performance in game then 22.5.1 and a lot of VR fix and the liquify persona still feel slow on both. So choose your poison I guess . The Pro Edition drivers 22.Q.4 have the stutter problem too, and V1 do not have any stutter problem with 22.11.2 or 22.5.1, but the liquify persona performance is not the best due to the lack of hardware acceleration.

So for now I will probably stick with V1 and do more test when a new gpu driver / V2 update came out. I think that Affinity have to work with amd on those drivers issues or put a disclaimer on the product page that amd drivers are not stable/supported.

[A.R]

I have this lag with all the AF suite. It is impossible to draw

On 1/9/2023 at 2:40 AM, Vhenzor said:

I have terrible performance when using my AMD 6700xt gpu has renderer in any Affinity V2 apps. Every time I have to zoom in/out, move the canvas or draw with a brush I can feel some lag/stutter for a sec or two and the liquify persona render run far behind the mouse. If I switch the renderer for WARP everything feels smooth, but it's super taxing on the CPU.

The problem persists with openCL on or off, I don't have those problems with any apps in Affinity V1. Bios, Chipset, GPU and Windows are up-to-date. I bought the V2 after upgrading from gtx1060 to 6700xt because hardware acceleration can't be enable with AMD GPU on V1, but it seems that V2 have other problems...

It just feels bad that Affinity have a so poor support for AMD GPU on V1 and V2 when all my other graphical apps work just fine; Clip Studio Paint, Krita, the old CS6 suite, at this point even Photopea run smoother.

 

Spec.:
Windows 11 22h2
CPU: amd ryzen 5600
GPU: amd 6700xt
RAM: 16gb ddr4 3200mhz
MOBO: B450

Il have a similar lag problem with af photo and af designer.  I have a recent PC and an old laptop. Affinity V2 works normally on the old laptop, but ont my ¨PC there is a 1 or 2 sec lag before what i draw appears ont the screen. It is impossible to work. I never had this problem with the V1 and still do not have any problem with my other graphical app.

Cpu of the laptop ( works ok):  [01] : AMD64 Family 23 Model 24 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~3600 MHz

cou of the PC ( lag):

[01] : AMD64 Family 23 Model 24 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~3600 MHz

[Callum]

Hi All,

This is somewhat of a known issue with AMD GPUs at the moment I'm afraid. As far as I'm aware this is something AMD themselves are looking into and should hopefully be able to roll out a fix for in a future driver update. You should see better performance with Open CL disabled it may be worth trying the unsandboxed version of the app as it has been reported that this gives a slight performance increase. You can read more about this issue here: 

Thanks
C

[DylanGG]

Thanks for the response @Callum,

I'm part of the thread you linked. I'd hope after 2 years we can finally get a resolution to this. Do you know if the developers are speaking with AMD about it? I've tried emailing AMD personally and they've said they are investigating it. But still, no updates months later. We're left in the dark here.

I use Photoshop for work and OpenCL is working great on there. I'm curious why Affinity is affected more drastically. Can anything be done besides waiting on AMD?

[Vhenzor]

Since Affinity Photo V2.0.4 and AMD drivers 23.2.2 the lag/stutter is mostly gone for me. I will not say that the experience is perfect and the benchmark results are still bad, but at least the program is usable now. Hope things continue getting better.

[A.R]

Not for me Alas ! I updated all my drivers but it is still horribly lagging. I hope AMD will soon do something. It is so frustrating not to be able to use affinity !