About that Pixelpersona lag - is there a fix yet?

[Hatrantator]

Hey there! This question has popped up a few times i suppose but i haven't found a working solution yet.

I usually draw on iPad but now that i have a nice pen tablet i tried to use Designer and Photo v2 with it and encountered the Pixelpersona Performance drop.

You know, switching from Vector to Pixel takes about 15 secs to load, the app becomes blurred and windows is waiting for a response. Drawing with any brush that isn't in the "Basic" category results in a slideshow. No matter if FHD or 4K Canvas Size. Long strokes take longer than my coffee-maker.

Is there a fix for it yet? I've tried a few things like resetting and reinstalling the app, enabling performance mode in windows and designer settings, trying windows ink instead of high precision, letting affinity allocate up to 32GB of RAM and a few other things.

My specs are quite decent (Ryzen 3600, AMD 6700 XT, 64GB 3200MHz DDR4 and a M.2 SSD on Win11) so i think that won't be it.

Designer v1 is still doing fine so i got that going for me, but it would be really cool being able to use the tool i've spent my money on.

I've tried every version from v2.0.0 to v2.0.4 so far. I know the beta exists but i thought i'd ask before i waste more time on this.

I am huge advocat of the affinity tools but this is really cumbersome.

I save my time to upload a video as there are already enough of them on this forum.
 

[stokerg]

Hi @Hatrantator,

Do you know if you have the MSIX or the MSI/EXE version installed?  If you have the MSIX version, can you uninstall that and installing the MSI/EXE version which you can get from this post.  A number of users have reported no lagging with MSI version, with similar hardware to yourself, so that would be the first thing to try.

[James Ritson]

Hi @Hatrantator, I think you're the poster from Reddit—sounds like disabling OpenCL fixed it for you, and looks like we still have some investigation of AMD Navi GPUs to do!