Thumbnails in the layers panel take so long to render.

[Richard Craze]

I’m new to Affinity Photo and I’m wondering why do the thumbnails in the layers panel take so long to render. Sometimes it can take up to two to three minutes before you see the thumbnail, is this normal? Or is there a setting in the software that I have to activate. Like a lot of people who have used Photoshop. I’m used to the thumbnails appearing instantly.

So is there any way I can speed up this process.

I’m running Windows 11 Pro with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600x processor, I have thirty two megabytes of RAM. The GPU is the AMD Raden RX6700XT and the Motherboard is a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC. So do I have to update my system in some way. Any advice would be much appreciated

[Affinity-Inspiration]

I presume you are using the latest version of Affinity? But otherwise, your system looks ok. Look into what else may be running on you system that could be taking up CPU processes. 

[GarryP]

16 hours ago, Richard Craze said:

I’m new to Affinity Photo and I’m wondering why do the thumbnails in the layers panel take so long to render.

Do you have an active pixel selection when the Layer Panel thumbnails take a while before refreshing?

If so, it might be something to do with the issue reported here (which might be fixed in 2.6): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/197106-affinity-photo-—-layer-thumbnails-render-after-long-delay-not-at-all-or-only-after-additional-action-in-the-app/

[Richard Craze]

21 hours ago, Richard Craze said:

I’m new to Affinity Photo and I’m wondering why do the thumbnails in the layers panel take so long to render. Sometimes it can take up to two to three minutes before you see the thumbnail, is this normal? Or is there a setting in the software that I have to activate. Like a lot of people who have used Photoshop. I’m used to the thumbnails appearing instantly.

So is there any way I can speed up this process.

I’m running Windows 11 Pro with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600x processor, I have thirty two megabytes of RAM. The GPU is the AMD Raden RX6700XT and the Motherboard is a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC. So do I have to update my system in some way. Any advice would be much appreciated

This video shows how long it takes for a thumbnail takes to render on my system. As you can see it never rendered. I’ve had OpenCL acceleration off and on and it makes no difference at all.

I’m using the latest version of Affinity 2.5.7. I’ve even tried using the Beta Version 2.6.0.3106 and it’s just the same!

 

 Windows 11 Pro with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600x processor, I have thirty two megabytes of RAM. The GPU is the AMD Radeon RX6700XT, the Motherboard is a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC.

[GarryP]

I’m curious as to why you quoted yourself and then repeated information you had already given, both originally and in the quoted text.

[Affinity-Inspiration]

Where's the problem? Following that video, it looks ok to me? A fair bit of processing going on there, but nothing unexpected that I can see.

I'll have to have another look.

Ok, just looked up your system. The latest it seems. Should be plenty good enough.

Perhaps put your .afphoto file somewhere so we can try it out for comparison?

Edited February 8 by Affinity-Inspiration
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[Affinity-Inspiration]

So I think I see what's happening. You are selecting the tree onto it's own layer. Fine. Then selecting the background and merging it down I think (the image is very fuzzy) but in effect it's leaving you a blank layer. The tree is gone. The background is gone. leaving a blank layer. Which is what appears to have been done.