lildreng Posted August 26, 2024 Posted August 26, 2024 (edited) When selecting an area and zooming, black boxes pop up. This is, of course, incredibly annoying. The issue does not occur when i have not selected an area (see the linked video). Interestingly it does not happen when i've zoomed in a lot either(~200-250%), even when a selection is made. To fix this I have tried: Turning hardware acceleration on/off in performance Changing retina rendering settings in performance Turning G-sync on/off in NVIDIA Control Panel Updating all drivers changing my monitors framerate from 144hz to 60hz I am using an RTX 3060TI, and an ASUS VG27A Monitor. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! 2024-08-26 16-35-24.mp4 Edited August 26, 2024 by lildreng typo Quote
Komatös Posted August 26, 2024 Posted August 26, 2024 The Affinity programs calculate the image display mostly in real time. But it's nothing you need to worry about. lildreng 1 Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.5 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.4351) Windows 11 Pro on VMWare Virtual Machine (on Mac) Affinity Suite V 2.6.3 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF No backup, no pity.
lildreng Posted August 26, 2024 Author Posted August 26, 2024 (edited) I don't worry about it, i just find it very annoying as it hurts the eyes after a while. Do you have any ideas to fix it? I should add, it often gets worse than in the video. Edited August 26, 2024 by lildreng Quote
Komatös Posted August 26, 2024 Posted August 26, 2024 27 minutes ago, lildreng said: Do you have any ideas to fix it? Unfortunately, I don't know a solution for this. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.5 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.4351) Windows 11 Pro on VMWare Virtual Machine (on Mac) Affinity Suite V 2.6.3 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF No backup, no pity.
walt.farrell Posted August 26, 2024 Posted August 26, 2024 There have been (and still are, I think) unfixed issues with G-Sync and the Affinity apps. I would try with these specific settings: G-Sync off Retina Rendering: High-Quality (slowest) in Photo Settings, Performance Hardware Acceleration Off in Photo Settings, Performance (will require an application Restart) If you still experience it with all those settings set that way, I don't have any other ideas. andidna 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
lildreng Posted August 27, 2024 Author Posted August 27, 2024 Hey Walt, thanks for the the reply, and for the suggestion. I tried with those specific settings but without luck, the flickering boxes still appear. I tried restarting the computer with those settings applied as well, but this didn't change anything either. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 27, 2024 Posted August 27, 2024 Thanks for trying them. lildreng 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Staff NathanC Posted September 20, 2024 Staff Posted September 20, 2024 Welcome to the forums @lildreng and apologies for the late reply, I can also trigger this flicker issue regardless of Renderer and Hardware Acceleration state provided a pixel selection is active, but it's quite intermittent. I'll get this logged with the developers for further investigation. 🙂 lildreng 1 Quote
bbrother Posted October 6, 2024 Posted October 6, 2024 This was first reported in 2021. It has nothing to do with hardware. It's about how the app is built and how it handles rendering tiles when zooming in or out — at least that's what another moderator [Chris B] told me. It sucks and shouldn't happen in app advertised as professional. Re-drawing when zooming in/out should be smooth. @lildreng it can get worse in quick mask mode (Q on keyboard to turn on) when you zoom in or out. Quote
lildreng Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 Thanks for the link and information, @bbrother! it really does seem that they consider this "working as intended", and that they're not working on fixing it. Honestly incredibly disappointing, I would definitely have asked for a refund if I knew the issue is just going to persist. Just makes me thankful that I don't have epilepsy. Editing brighter pictures would be impossible then, with the intensity of the flickers. Especially on higher resolution images bbrother 1 Quote
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