extremely slow working

[Tex4aviation]

I can not use Affinity Photo anymore. With my new Camera NIKON D850 I get huge data files.

I work on a i5 processor 250MB SSD and 8MB RAM. Should I buy a new computer just for that?

I must say that I work now only with ACDsee 2018 and the workflow is much faster and have no problems with this software, so it could not be the processor or the RAM.

What is the problem with this program?

Also I wonder why Lenses and Cameras are not available, or did I not find it?

 

[Gabe]

Hi @Tex4aviation,

Your camera is not on our list, so we cannot guarantee any functionality at all for RAW files. Sorry 

We hope to get more cameras supported in the future, but we have no ETA. 

Thanks,

Gabe, 

[v_kyr]

See:

Even we talked there primary about the APh Mac version it should behave similar for Win with the Affinity RAW engine. - If certain lenses are supported depends on their addition to the Lensfun database and the database version included by APh versions.

Other than that you need to have some patience, since as you already know the D850 NEF files are huge and the APh RAW converter part isn't the fastest in reading in and transforming these.

[Tex4aviation]

Thank you for your comments. My Lenses are all on the list.

That is not the problem.

The software works also with other files very slow. So again my question.

What do you suggest to buy, specially also the grafic card would be interesting to know

[v_kyr]

First of all check how much RAM is used on your system when opening D850 NEF files with APh, there are chances that enhancing that also slightly speeds up things. Other than that, AFAIK the Affinity products do benefit more from having many CPU cores, than from raw GPU power at all. So the overall hint for a Win based PC system would be ...

• A fast multicore CPU >= i5/i7
• RAM (...did I already said RAM?)
• having a very fast SSD for I/O tasks might help too
• IMHO raw GPU power is not that important here since it's not overall used

[Tex4aviation]

Acutally I have an I5

6 GB RAM

250 GB SSD

As I said, with ACDSee pro no problem with the big files.

It must be soemthing wrong AF. Even to only start it takes 20 seconds.

[All Media Lab]

What generation i5 do you have? It's the first figure from the processor name.

For example i7-4750HQ means a 4th generation i7. 6 GB is a very small size, I would recommend minimum 8 GB RAM and up.

And use fysical RAM and no virtual RAM on the harddisk, because that doesn't speed things up.

Regards,

David 

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, Tex4aviation said:

Even to only start it takes 20 seconds.

How many fonts do you have installed?

[Tex4aviation]

Standart Windows Fonts, nothing special or aded fonts installed. I am not working for books or so.

[SrPx]

There are i5 that are even 2 cores (ie, i5 7267U )...heck, I've seen even recent i7s... and series U are very toned down chips for mobility, thermals and  -mostly-  cutting production costs. Also, 6gb RAM , imo, maybe is just me, but looks to me way way low for the purpose pretended (probably is also 2133 MHz RAM speed or less, too), maybe RAM speed has some influence, too (neither know if latency, as well). Often are not just components alone... is also BUS speed, cpu cache speed, etc... the price of a machine versus another implies too many factors. Indeed, there are many cases where even (random non real example) a dual core i3, at higher clock speed, ie 1.8 Ghz, is gonna be quite slower than even a dual core i5 at 1.6. As the architecture, mother board features, CPU functions, etc, do factor in heavily. About ACDSee, it depends on what it does with the files, or what structure must it have to do further stuff with those, I guess...What I don't fully understand is... if it goes so well for you with ACDSee, why willing to purchase A. Photo? (pure mere curiosity).

[Tex4aviation]

Thank you for your kind analyses.

Well I bought ACDSee  AFTER I could not work with AF anymore. Quite frustrating as ACDsee is more expensive. But AF has more interesting features.

There is one hughe advantage in ACDsee, I can browse in RAW/NEF Files. AF can't do that, so you need anyway a RAW preview software.

So it must have something in the software code that slows thing dramatically with AF. I hope they can solve this problem

[firstdefence]

ACDSee is a well thought out app, simple to use and designed for fast editing and viewing, its quick and responsive and very easy to use. ACDSee is a more focused app than Affinity Photo, so Affinity Photo has a wider artistic appeal.

[Tex4aviation]

Thats absolutely correct, I miss the artistic side in ACDs and would really apreciate if AF would refresh their source code and think about it. Even people very brand new computers complain about the speed of AF. There are some youtube vid's where people compare Photoshop with AF and make remarks about the slow speed