Lots of slow down while I am drawing

[Gutzy]

I am experiencing alot of lag when I'm drawing. Also, I get alot of crashes as well. Wondering if its my specs or not?

AMD RADEON HD 6500 series
processor: intel core i7-2600 cpu 3.40 ghz
memory (RAM) 16.0
system type: 64 bit operating system

[DraccoonStu]

That's definitely unusual - I'll have a quick look through the crash logs to see if there's anything in particular which is showing up as a potential problem. Are there any brushes or actions which seem prone to trouble, which canvas size are you using? Some brushes can be laggy at large sizes, and if you have a high resolution canvas, zoomed out, there's more work to do (as the stroke travels further)

A regular piece of advice we have is to update graphics drivers to the latest version if possible.
If you go into the Settings menu, under "Configure Krita Gemini" there is a "Display" category, if you adjust the level of filtering (Bilinear is okay, but High-Quality is best, but can impact performance).

We have just pushed an update to the "Beta" branch (more an area to push updates which we feel could do with a little more testing before being released to the default branch) - you can find information on switching to it here: How to enable the 'beta' branch - this adds some new memory management as well as other bug fixes which are not yet in the current release. Maybe you could switch to that and let me know if you have any more success?

[Gutzy]

Ok. I will give those suggestions a shot. I usually work on a 8 by 11 canvas with 300 ppi. I was using one of the brushes and it had a delay to it while I was drawing. Happened about 8 or ten minutes into my drawing. Thanks for the quick response and will try to get back to you sometime this week.

[Hari]

Nickjenne's problem seems similiar to mine. No matter the canvas size or brush used, after a short time (it's usually been between 10 - 30 minutes) the brush starts to falter. The best way i can describe it is as if the frames per second of the brush pointer dropped, so it appears to lag across the screen and is hard to draw with. I've updated drivers, tried both the betas and official updates, tried all the filtering levels and still have the same problem. It even occurs after opening a new document then leaving it in the background for a while and not changing it all.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, this problem doesn't occur on krita desktop. It's pretty weird since everything else has been fine, any ideas?

[Lauren]

SirSpades původně napsal:

Nickjenne's problem seems similiar to mine. No matter the canvas size or brush used, after a short time (it's usually been between 10 - 30 minutes) the brush starts to falter. The best way i can describe it is as if the frames per second of the brush pointer dropped, so it appears to lag across the screen and is hard to draw with. I've updated drivers, tried both the betas and official updates, tried all the filtering levels and still have the same problem. It even occurs after opening a new document then leaving it in the background for a while and not changing it all.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, this problem doesn't occur on krita desktop. It's pretty weird since everything else has been fine, any ideas?

Does switching to Sketch mode and back when it happens fix the stuttering?

[Hari]

Seikatsukan původně napsal:

Does switching to Sketch mode and back when it happens fix the stuttering?

Yes, that worked! Thanks, that's a lot quicker and easier than quitting and restarting.

[DraccoonStu]

@SirSpades @Seikatsukan

Thanks for the info re slowdown ... switching to sketch and back is interesting, and gives us a hint of where to look for a solution! :D

[Hari]

Awesome, thanks!