Bonev Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Guys, There is something totally weird and wrong with Metal engine. I am using 1.6.1 Mac Designer. Metal holds hostage the GPU for way longer and way higher than OpenGL. See on the video what is happening. My MacBook Pro 2015 is heating up big time when using metal.And this example is very simple as you can see- just zooming and panning 2 elements. My logo designs are almost max GPU all the time on idle. Metal vs OPENGL.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 By the way I just tested Photo and it does the same thing. I guess I am staying away for now from Metal until fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted March 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2019 Hi Bonev, Can you try this in the latest beta of Photo: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/80886-affinity-photo-customer-beta-170112/ and Designer: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/81411-affinity-designer-customer-beta-1707/ Both betas have had some improvements made to metal, so be interesting to see what results they give you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 no different than 1.6.1 see attached video was done with Designer beta and Metal. beta gpu test.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 Any update on this? Metal still lags and keep using GPU while I am not doing nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 This is still an issue in the latest release of 1.7.1 in both Photo and Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted August 17, 2019 Author Share Posted August 17, 2019 This is still an issue in 1.7.2 of both Photo and Designer. I have not tested Publisher yet but if it uses metal I suspect it is an issue there too. Please figure out this bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonev Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 You do not mention this issue being fixed but it is now in version 1.8. Thank you. Now I can use it on my laptop on the go. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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