AffinityLover Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Dear Developers, Affinity Photo V2 has some serious performance flaws, regardless if you have a high end PC or not. The issue I found lies within most of the brush tools. You can use the paint brush tool and test it out. Opens your Task Manager, click on Performance tab and monitor the CPU & GPU percentage while move the brush tool around the canvas. You can also use HwINFO64 tool to monitor all system sensors to find performance problems. My CPU spikes to 70% usage whenever I move the brush tools around and this happens when I selected WARP as rendering in Settings. So when I select my Nvidia RTX 3080 as rendering in Settings, moving the brush spikes my GPU to about 30% usage. This high CPU usage causes stutter and lags, even crashes on weak PCs. My CPU is AMD Ryzen 5900X, 12 cores. This is as SERIOUS performance bug that needs to be fixed! For people with mid to lower end PC, they will experience SERIOUS lags and even crashes as reported by many over the Internet. No photo editing software out there has this performance issue, except Affinity products. All the brushes that cause the SERIOUS lags due to high CPU spikes when moving the brush around is attached. I spent hours on researching and experimenting with different settings to fix this issue. All the recommended solutions all over the Internet CANNOT fix this issue. However, I have found a way to fix this issue and put it to rest permanently! To Serif, Please find better programmer so they can help you fix this SERIOUS performance issue. Sometimes bring in new ideas and new people will help see things differently which will contribute in solving your problems. Two heads are better than one. I want to share this solution to the world. Now to the solution I found! To fix this performance issue for good, go to Affinity Photo settings, click on User Interface tab, then uncheck "Show brush previews" and voila, your performance issue will be gone permanently. This is the only setting you need to change and you can keep all settings at default. However, you will loose that brush preview though. I don't mind loosing that since it helps getting rid of the performance lag and keeps my PC running cool and quiet, and less energy use. You also needs to uncheck OpenCL acceleration if you still have problems. My system SPECS: AMD Ryzen 5900X CPU 32 GB @3200 Mhz RAM Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU WD SN850X 2TB SSD Enjoy! Buy me a drink Son Pham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galaxy Sega Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Ive done this and it still is acting up. I really want to like this program but it's driving me up the wall and slowing up my work flow! I have deadlines to hit and this program is working against me! Im in half a mind to go on youtube and make a rant video warning people of this product. How is this happening? It should be tested before release? Whatever, Serif gang, please fix this ASAP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityLover Posted September 5 Author Share Posted September 5 8 minutes ago, Galaxy Sega said: Ive done this and it still is acting up. I really want to like this program but it's driving me up the wall and slowing up my work flow! I have deadlines to hit and this program is working against me! Im in half a mind to go on youtube and make a rant video warning people of this product. How is this happening? It should be tested before release? Whatever, Serif gang, please fix this ASAP! You can try to disable OpenCL Acceleration in Settings to see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galaxy Sega Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Im using a Mac M1 by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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