Inpainting brush slower and no shortcut for size

[Whitesnake]

Since 1.7.0 I can't change the size of the inpainting brush anymore. I used my brush size shortcuts, but this doesn't work anymore. The keyboard combination control + option still works but this isn't a help when I'm using a wacom. Second: the performance isn't very good. I make a stroke and when the brush is a little bit bigger it takes some time to calculate. So it takes time to fix blemished with this tool.

I'm using MacOS 10.14.5 and a 2018 Macbook Pro with a eGPU (Vega 56).

[Nazario]

Try turning off Hardware acceleration in performance settings. (last option at the bottom).

[Whitesnake]

Hello, thanks. There is no change.

[Chris B]

4 hours ago, Whitesnake said:

Hello, thanks. There is no change.

Can you screenshot your Preferences > Performance window so we can see the exact settings you are using. A few other users reporting performance issues have had success disabling Metal compute but if you've already tried what Nazario suggested to no avail, we need to find out what is going on.

[Whitesnake]

Hello, here are my performance settings:

[Chris B]

Thanks for the screenshot.

There are a couple of things I would like to suggest now:

1. Try changing Display to OpenGL. You will need to turn off Metal compute first

2. Install the beta which has some performance tweaks:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/88673-affinity-photo-customer-beta-171140-release-candidate-1/

 

[Whitesnake]

Hi Chris, thanks for your help. OpenGL did the trick. One problem remains: I cannot change the size of the tool (inpainting brush) with my brush increase-shortcut. Is this issue known and is this perhaps fixed in the beta?

[Chris B]

What is your shortcut? On a standard Eng-UK keyboard you use the [ and ] keys to resize. For instance, my German keyboard has those keys on the number keys and the number keys are reserved for other shortcuts.

With the update, the shortcuts will have been knocked out so make sure you have reconfigured them. 

[Whitesnake]

My shortcuts are Ü and + . I remapped them and now it's working. Thx for your help. What seemed strange is, that the shortcuts worked for a normal brush, but noch for the inpainting brush.

[Chris B]

1 hour ago, Whitesnake said:

What seemed strange is, that the shortcuts worked for a normal brush, but noch for the inpainting brush.

Agreed. I think this is a side-effect of the bug we had with losing customisations when updating from 1.6 to 1.7.