kat Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 When I have 2 Affinity Photo files open, working on one using the other as a reference image, Affinity Photo 2.4 regularly crashes. Is this a bug? Would I be better using the 2.5 beta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 17 minutes ago, kat said: When I have 2 AP files open, working on one using the other as a reference image, AP 2.4 regularly crashes. Are you using Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher? <pedantry> Sonora is a state in Mexico. Version 14 of macOS (latest point release 14.4) is Sonoma, named after a county in California. </pedantry> Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 So sorry I'm talking about Affinity Photo - Sonoma. Good catches Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 FYI the 2.5 beta isn't available yet. What are your Performance settings? Go to Affinity Photo 2 > Settings, click Performance on the left. Turn off Enable Metal Compute Acceleration. Turning it off will slow the app a bit but will avoid some random crashes on Apple M1, M2, M3 chips. Good luck kat and Alfred 1 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 18 hours ago, MikeTO said: Turn off Enable Metal Compute Acceleration. Turning it off will slow the app a bit but will avoid some random crashes on Apple M1, M2, M3 chips Thanks, Mike slower and less crashing would be ok and thanks for the manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 19 hours ago, MikeTO said: FYI the 2.5 beta isn't available yet. What are your Performance settings? Go to Affinity Photo 2 > Settings, click Performance on the left. Turn off Enable Metal Compute Acceleration. Turning it off will slow the app a bit but will avoid some random crashes on Apple M1, M2, M3 chips. Good luck Why did no one mention this when I asked about the optimal performance settings on my Mac Studio the other day? This really should be in the instructions. There's nothing in the human genetic makeup to make it instinctual, and I didn't find it when I searched the forums here. ...not that I'm going to turn off Metal and slow things down, because with Ventura it doesn't crash - although it does hang on quit sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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