titch Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 It takes about 35 secs on my Mac to develop an image and it is putting me off using Affinity. Is there anyone having the same slow problem as me? Has someone been able to speed up the developing time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j3rry Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 It takes around one second on my iMac to develop a Z6 image. Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, iPad 8, MACOS Sonoma & iPadOS, Affinity V2-Universallizenz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted September 18, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 18, 2019 I've just tested some sample RAW files from a Nikon Z6 and developing takes a couple of seconds. What is the spec of your Mac and which macOS are you using. If you open Affinity Photos Preferences > Performance is Metal compute enabled, if so try turning off and testing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Thanks for replying both of you. Lee I have attached a screen shot of my performance panel and as you can see Metal is disabled. Is there anything else you can suggest I change on this panel? I am using Mac OS Sierra version 10.12.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 Lee, have you had time to look at my preference settings. Should I be using High Sierra instead of Sierra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted September 23, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 23, 2019 Your Performance settings look ok, what is the spec of your Mac and are you running the most recent update to Affinity Photo (1.7.2) ? You can also check the settings of the Develop persona Assistant, as you are running on macOS you have the option of switching RAW engines from ours (SerifLABS) to Apples (Core image). That being said the Nikon Z6 is only supported by Apples RAW engine if you are running macOS Mojave. Some users don't update their OS due to some older apps not being supported or other reasons, this is a decision only you can make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titch Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 Thanks for replying Lee. My Mac is Sierra 10.12.6, Affinity is 1.7.2 and I am using Photomechanic 5 to import into Affinity. I have clicked to SerifLABS. After I have worked on an image in Develop Persona I then hit the Photo Persona button and it took about 25secs to develop. Is this time normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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