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6 minutes ago, Kajac said:

I was quite happy with the last posts of the guys here on the forum. Anyway, I tried to get past bottles, but I couldn't!

I have exactly the problem of .NET 3.5... I tried several configurations and even things similar to the YML file I posted on a few pages ago but without success, if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it!

Same, I actually was able to import the config and install Photo, bit couldn't launch it

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, jaizon said:

Same, I actually was able to import the config and install Photo, bit couldn't launch it

 

 

 

 

It must be some small detail we're missing.

When I can run, I will test to see if the tools I use are ok! If they are, I won't even waste my time on windows anymore!

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10 minutes ago, Kajac said:

It must be some small detail we're missing.

When I can run, I will test to see if the tools I use are ok! If they are, I won't even waste my time on windows anymore!

Would be good if it was done in bare wine inst. That way we could see what's wrong

 

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14 hours ago, Kajac said:

I have exactly the problem of .NET 3.5

We only use that version of .NET for the installer itself. The actual app uses .NET 4.7.2. You could extract the internal MSI from the outer installer exe by using "app_name.exe /extract" - though you'd still need .NET 3.5 to do that (you could run Windows in a VM first to extract the MSI).

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On 7/13/2022 at 10:39 PM, Kajac said:

I was quite happy with the last posts of the guys here on the forum. Anyway, I tried to get past bottles, but I couldn't!

I have exactly the problem of .NET 3.5... I tried several configurations and even things similar to the YML file that was posted on a few pages ago but without success, if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it!

Actually i think this is a bug in Bottles for now - but they have a 2 week release cycles between versions.

In order to make it work for now create a custom bottle and import the yml configuration file as a Custom Recepie - and the most important part chose Caffe as Runner - if u don't have it on that list use Preferences in main window to install it prior to creation.

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After you install the programs you need to Change Launch Options for each program and add --no-hw-ui to the Command Arguments and you are good to go 😆

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After that the programs will run - sorta -  since Publisher it's actually unusable crashing without reason just by looking at it - and also if all of them are started together they kinda work on turns - so for now one at a time is safe bet : >

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L.E : Bottles just got new update with more goodies : https://usebottles.com/blog/release-2022.7.14/

L.L.E : Made slimmed down configuration file to install Affinity in Bottles (deleted everything inside i didn't find necessary) and attached here. The setup files i'm using are the ones i got directly from my serif account and they install without problem.

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AffinityCustomBottleRecipe.yml

Fedora Workstation 39

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@1stn00b first of all, thank you very much for taking the time to create that little guide :)

And now to the good stuff, I follow every step and the installation ran smoothly, but once I hit the play button for the installed Affinity Photo, nothing happened at all :( Which version of the installer did you use? 1.10.5 didn’t do it for me.

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3 hours ago, 1stn00b said:

Actually i think this is a bug in Bottles for now - but they have a 2 week release cycles between versions.

In order to make it work for now create a custom bottle and import the yml configuration file as a Custom Recepie - and the most important part chose Caffe as Runner - if u don't have it on that list use Preferences in main window to install it prior to creation.

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After you install the programs you need to Change Launch Options for each program and add --no-hw-ui to the Command Arguments and you are good to go 😆

affinitybottlearguments.png.254d89dde35a49a2ddc10a0bd438deb3.png

After that the programs will run - sorta -  since Publisher it's actually unusable crashing without reason just by looking at it - and also if all of them are started together they kinda work on turns - so for now one at a time is safe bet : >

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OMG, thank you, it stils fells a little sluggish, kinda slow too and there are some screen teraring, but even the presure sensitivnes in my graphic tablet is working

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4 hours ago, jaizon said:

By the way, it does recognize my graphic card, but I can't enable computer acceleration, should I set it for WARP instead ? I can't enable hardware acceleration either way, but I remember seing someone in this thread talking aout it!

It did the same thing to me. I could see my GPU listed in the tab, and it reported that what it saw as Windows 10 was up to snuff for the task, but it still wouldn't allow me to turn on hardware rendering. Right now, WARP is the only option.

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20 hours ago, D’T4ils said:

@1stn00b first of all, thank you very much for taking the time to create that little guide :)

And now to the good stuff, I follow every step and the installation ran smoothly, but once I hit the play button for the installed Affinity Photo, nothing happened at all :( Which version of the installer did you use? 1.10.5 didn’t do it for me.

Maybe do a clean reinstall of Bottles either by removing it from Software Center and then go to ~/.var/app/ and manualy delete com.usebottles.bottles then reinstall or by using Terminal :  flatpak uninstall Bottles --delete-data then flatpak install Bottles

Don't forget to do a Full Backup on existent bottles u want to restore after reinstall.

Fedora Workstation 39

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11 hours ago, 1stn00b said:

Maybe do a clean reinstall of Bottles either by removing it from Software Center and then go to ~/.var/app/ and manualy delete com.usebottles.bottles then reinstall or by using Terminal :  flatpak uninstall Bottles --delete-data then flatpak install Bottles

Don't forget to do a Full Backup on existent bottles u want to restore after reinstall.

Sadly that made no difference :( I even tried the new recipe you uploaded today, but the result was the same. The installations run smoothly, but nothing at all happens when I run the apps. I’m not sure if it could be because my laptop has an Nvidia graphics card or maybe because my system is running on Wayland.

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You can always switch to X11 from login screen and see if it makes a difference.

Are u running latest version of Bottles ? Just do a flatpak update in terminal to be sure.

 

L.E. And off course i forgot the most important thing you can launch with Terminal from menu and check  the  errors you get

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Fedora Workstation 39

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Just to test things out, I installed Photo using 1stnoob's custom recipe above, but using Bottle's brand new Soda 7.0-2 runner.

It works better than it has previously. I can now reliably open the preferences panel without crashing, and can even drag and drop images into the editor from Files like a native application. That said, the canvas is still a little flaky, and enabling the rulers on the UI, or hitting up a more process intensive live filters like lighting can cause it to crash.

Right now, I'd consider it, maybe, 60% usable. So close, but not quite there yet.

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On 7/16/2022 at 7:51 AM, 1stn00b said:

You can always switch to X11 from login screen and see if it makes a difference.

Are u running latest version of Bottles ? Just do a flatpak update in terminal to be sure.

 

L.E. And off course i forgot the most important thing you can launch with Terminal from menu and check  the  errors you get

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Thanks a lot for putting so much effort on trying to help me out, mate :)

After trying different things, I finally got it to work! The issue was with the Nvidia drivers I was running on. The X.Org Nouveau ones were causing the issue. Once I switched to the proprietary ones Designer as well as Photo started working, both on Intel Integrated Graphics as well as on my Nvidia GTX 1060. I experienced the sames glitches that everyone’s mentioned so far, but at least both apps are running now :)

Btw, my Nvidia card is also being recognized by Affinity’s apps:

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A question to you all: Since we now can consistently have Photo working, what would be needed in order to solve the problems we currently have, the flickering and performance?

As far as functioning goes, I was able to load in files, including macros, just by draging and droping. Haven't tested a bunch of evects yet but even this poster in the image has mani livefilters, so it should be somewhats heavy!

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One thing I've noticed later one, I can import multiple files at once, I tested it with brushe files, but I can't reorganize pannels the sticky feature doesn't work, so once I get rid of a pannel I can't dock it anymore.

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Very cool to see the guys running affinity on bottles.

I did what the guys recommended to get around the dotnet 3.5 error, but I can't run it at all.

Apart from that the last update didn't go down very well, the bottles used to be very fast and now it's slow!

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6 hours ago, 1stn00b said:

Sorry to hear you can't test it, but i think there are other problems that need to be fixed on your system since it works for other people here.

I really do not understand. On the bottles github I found someone else with the same problem!

Now I'll wait for them to help, because they said it doesn't work, but I posted this forum, showing that it works!

Did you manage to unzip the .exe or did you do something different?
I've tried everything, using unzipped, trying to run the version already installed on windows and nothing works.

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Another thing I noticed is that the bottles are slow in this latest update! Detail that I have good SSD, CPU and RAM!

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Make sure to report your findings on WineHQ for the flickering etc. There are no reports showing it is out of garbage mode currently. So please provide your results there to do your part of helping. This way you can get the community and wine developers to start assisting with these issues. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332

As far as Bottles goes, from what I understand and this might be out of date information. But there is/was an issue on the Ubuntu family tree of distros that wasn't resolved when I attempted it.

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Oh maaaaaan GOOD WORK! It's such a relief to not have to boot up a freakin windows install just to use affinity

Affinity Designer is working in Ubuntu 22.04 ...with nvidia GPU rendering !

Wanted to report in @1stn00b's guide here does work https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/page/92/#comment-940833 Thank you!!!

Although I am experiencing flickering issues as well, but hopefully we can find a workaround soon. 👀

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4 hours ago, geenat said:

Oh maaaaaan GOOD WORK! It's such a relief to not have to boot up a freakin windows install just to use affinity

Affinity Designer is working in Ubuntu 22.04 ...with nvidia GPU rendering !

Wanted to report in @1stn00b's guide here does work https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/page/92/#comment-940833 Thank you!!!

Although I am experiencing flickering issues as well, but hopefully we can find a workaround soon. 👀

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Cool, looks like bottles and this configuration is working on Pop!_OS 22.04 too. Once the flickering is sorted we'll be in good shape. I went ahead and turned in a report on WineHQ for Affinity Photo. I'm encouraging others to do the same.

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