JBI wrote:


One question I have.... since I am using an SSD drive and keep having to
manually shut down and reboot by pressing the power button when I get
the black screens, will frequently doing this harm the SSD? In the days
when I had HDD, such actions were definitely damaging to the HD, but not
sure about SSD. If so, then I may have to either go back to Photoshop
or find another Photoshop alternative.

Use the front panel "RESET" button, not the "POWER" button...

SATA doesn't have RESET, so the SSD drive cannot "feel" a
RESET event. Abrupt power loss isn't particularly good for
an SSD. We think the drives can handle it... until they don't.

By pressing the reset, that leaves the NTFS partition in
an inconsistent state - but that's what the playback journal
is for on the next boot. And by using RESET, the SSD doesn't
realize there was a "change of ownership" at the software level.
For the SSD, it's just business as usual.

*******

The developers of "affinity-photo-1.6.5.123.exe" had the option
of going with OpenGL or with DirectX and they chose DirectX11.

DirectX seems to have pretty poor support on the Microsoft site.
There is a platform update, bringing DX11 to DX11.1. I can't
tell from this, whether "game specific patches" were released,
which would also correct other deficiencies in the code.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=36805

The hazy history of DirectX11 is here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_11

Paul