Aff Photo 2 Cursor Erratic

[AmyM]

When I use the paint brush, clone tool and others, the cursor won't  enlarge or or reduce a great deal of the time ( a lot!!) If I select width, it gets stuck at 4096 px, but the cursor may be tiny. Same when I use left/right brackets. Then, in a bit, it will jump to huge, shrink, grow, etc.. 

Also, cloaning sometimes doesn't work at all, or may be incredibly slow.

I am on Win 11, 16g ram, and the display just says XE Graphics.

Any thoughts?

Thanks greatly..

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, AmyM said:

Any thoughts?

Some of the brush stuff (especially the Colour Replacement Brush Tool) are resource hungry and not always the fastest performers. - Do you have the performance OpenCL hardware acceleration option (under the APh Performance Preferences) enabled or disabled?

Further do you have many other open (so unclosed) apps running in parallel? - Also take a look and monitor with the Windows Task Manager, how many CPU & memory resources APh commonly takes there, when you do perform the above mentioned brush operations.

[AmyM]

The APh is enabled. Edge is only other app open. I totally uninstalled NIK for now. 

Is APh a value I can look at in Task Manager? (Couldn't  find it going through all the tabs).

Task manager memory  is showing ~8,400.0MB with 1 file open, and jumps to ~9,500.0 when I try to clone.  With Aff open, no files open, it is around  250MB. When I re-open the previous file, it is around 1,750. When I simply click on the clone tool, not use it, it jumps to 3,180.4MB. One small drag of it, goes up to 5,000.+MB. If I then alt-click for source on clone, it jumps to 8,400.0 and above, and can't  change cursor size. 

When I simply click on one of the tools, CPU jumps to 80+ %. 

Also, when trying to trouble shoot yesterday, with multiple files open, Affinity showed 200+G storage space! Are large temp files accumulating or something when it is used? Right now it is back down to 8.4G.

Are these values within normal range? Right now, the app is almost too frustrating to use, so hoping for a fix! I have been using it 3-4 weeks, and really like it.

Thanks greatly...

[v_kyr]

54 minutes ago, AmyM said:

Is APh a value I can look at in Task Manager? (Couldn't  find it going through all the tabs).

APh is just an abbreaviation for "Affinity Photo" here in the forum in order to write shorter text! - In Task Manager look after Affinity Photo processes instead.

Look after your Affinity Photo performance settings, especially there the RAM usage setting and GPU based OpenCL harware acceleration ...

• Hardware Acceleration
• Performance option (settings here)

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Settings (or Preferences)

... Performance options

• RAM Usage Limit—allows you to set your preference for optimizing application performance for your projects.
• Disk Usage Warning At—choose the limit at which you are warned about disk usage.
• Undo Limit—choose the history length you are able to access.
• View Quality—choose the way in which the image displays during modifications. Select from the pop-up menu.
• Choose whether to dither gradients, when working on projects, to speed up performance.
• Choose a clipping option for optimizing performance.
• File Recovery Interval—sets the interval for saving temporary data for currently open documents, allowing a document restore to be offered at startup if the app develops a fault.
• Display—if your PC/Mac has an additional discrete graphics card, checking the Use only integrated GPU will not allow access to it, therefore reducing power consumption and conserving battery life (useful for unplugged MacBook Pros).
• Retina Rendering—choose your rendering experience. Select from the pop-up menu.
  • Automatic (Best)—renders as non-retina followed by retina for balanced performance and quality.
  • Low quality (Fastest)—renders as non-retina only for highest performance level but compromises on quality.
  • High quality (Slowest)—renders as retina only for high quality but may compromise performance.
• Hardware Acceleration—checking Enable OpenCL compute acceleration boosts some tasks' performance if a compatible GPU is available. See the Hardware acceleration topic.

Look if GPU OpenCL usage is enabled or disabled! - Switching that option on/off can have stability and performance effects. One has to try out if it makes any possible difference with this option enabled or disabled. When changing options there, Affinity Photo afterwards needs a restart, in order for  option changes to take place.

 

54 minutes ago, AmyM said:

Are these values within normal range?

Probably, though I'm no Windows (Win 11) user. - RAM/Memory consumption is sometimes high in APh depending on what Tools are used in it and so can trottle up and down.

[AmyM]

So after 3 weeks of doing everything possible, and the other day moving 1tb off drive, increasing memory, and all your recommendations, I read a clone thread by jdvoracek today. A lot of talk about brushes. I changed from a round soft brush, to just a round brush, and all is fine now. The hardness slider also shows again. I was at a total dead-end with a lot, so relieved to no end! This is a bug, right?