vers. 2.1 slow down

[billgatto]

I've been using affinity designer since the first beta and I've always found it very fast, I upgraded to version 2. A few days ago I upgraded to version 2.1.0 after 2.0.9 and I found that it slowed down a lot, even just at start-up I calculated almost 2 and a half minutes whereas before it was almost immediate. Does anyone have the same problem? Thanks

[iconoclast]

I'm not sure about that, but I have a similar impression. The apps start a bit slower than the former versions. Most of all I noticed that a problem, I already had with Photo's Brush Editor in the last version, became much worse in some cases. Sometimes, if I changed something in the Brush Editor in the last version, it took very much time to compute the changes and the app was greyed out during that time. Now in some cases the app freezes and I have to shut it down. But that happens not so often. I'm still investigating this problem. Possibly I only have installed too many brushes and other stuff.

I'm on Windows 10.

[billgatto]

Previous versions used to start up quickly, whereas now it takes almost two minutes. I use an HP Pavilion i7 with 16gb of ram and nvidia gtx 1050 card on windows 11, I was thinking of downgrading.

[iconoclast]

I just tested it on my Dell XPS 8930 with i7, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB RAM), and the start of each app needed 17-20 seconds. But I remember that the first starts after the update took much longer. I suppose that could have been caused by some new features, that must be registered first. But I can't judge it in your case.

[Sam LaGargouille]

hello,

While the opening times of the applications were fast in beta 2.1.1799, since the release I also notice a rather long loading time when opening and on the three applications. Installing MSI (exe)

[jmwellborn]

Publisher 2.1 is very slow to open on my Mac.  Photo 2.1 and Designer 2.1 slightly less so.  All three are definitely slower than the Betas.  Not just a Windows situation. 

[Bruno Belo]

I have dell g15 5520 24gb ram core i5 12th RTX3050 and V2 2.1.0 have a slow initializing here too, the three aplications have 50 seconds time to open each.

Windows 11 pro 22h2 22621.1702

[V_rob]

Hello !

Since the 2.1 version, I also have a big slow down of the app.

Wen I use a brush, there's sometimes a delay of 1 second !!

I have macbookpro 2021 M1 32go - And when I run the monitor, nothing is really high (CPU or memory).

So I guess it's really from this version.

Hope they will work on that pretty soon...

[billgatto]

I downgrade at version 2.04 and test the speed, to open the app, version 2.04 30 second from clik icon, the versio 2.10 about 1 minut and 7 second. now I wait a new upgrade.

[PaulEC]

I must agree that the start up times seem quite a bit slower than with previous versions!

[iconoclast]

As I noticed during the last days, the start up times seem to vary. As I tested it on the 20th (see above), it took between 17 and 21 seconds for each app. But in the last days it sometimes took  much more. I can't see a cause for it.

[Hilltop]

In my case, W10 & MSIX, all three apps (v. 2.1) start up in around 25 seconds.