TheraHedwig wrote:Uhm, actually, if you experience lag with brushstrokes, you may want to check the brush smoothing options...

Ok, thanks, I'll try that. You'll hear back from me only if that doesn't solve it

(And did I miss that suggestion in this thread?)

earthbound wrote:Thanks, though I'm still left wondering where to find a development (/bugfix?) or release build that is version 2.8.5 or lower. There are only .78 versions at that dev builds URL you provide, and there doesn't seem to be any place to get release or dev builds versioned 2.8.5 or lower.

2.8.3 is the latest release build; we don't make development builds for the 2.8 branch because, well, that's the release branch. You can download the latest release build (2.8.3) from http://kritastudio.com/desktop.html, that's where http://www.krita.org/download links to. http://files.kde.org/krita/windows has a series of development builds, that's the code that is in the process of becoming 2.9.

Ok, thanks.

Oh, and I almost forgot: http://download.kde.org/stable/krita/ has the full archive of release builds for Krita for Windows, with 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 being about as experimental as the current OSX builds, and 2.7 and 2.8 being usable. I see I still need to upload 2.8.3 to that location, though.

Weird thing happened to me many times already - after installing Krita it is running well, no visible problems. Then, without apparent reason, with no changes made to system - simply one day Krita is not simply starting, but showing message "Please wait while Windows configures Krita desktop" followed with a version name. It takes same time as installing Krita, then Krita starts normally. If I close Krita and turn it on again - same situation once again... Its like installing Krita each time I want to use it.

It happened in many versions before, last version that it happened is (x64) 2.8.79.15. I am about to check newest build, but I thought I mention that.

PS. I just deleted old installer and Krita couldnt run at all - it was looking for that installer file so looks like for some reason, Krita wants to install itself each time one wants to run it... If I uninstall and install it again problem is gone, until one day it comes back without reason that I may think of...

If that happens, somehow, I don't know how or why, Windows has 'determined' that krita's installation directory has changed, so it needs to re-install Krita.

nezumi wrote: looks like for some reason, Krita wants to install itself each time one wants to run it... If I uninstall and install it again problem is gone, until one day it comes back without reason that I may think of...

boudewijn wrote:If that happens, somehow, I don't know how or why, Windows has 'determined' that krita's installation directory has changed, so it needs to re-install Krita.

Maybe it has something to do with krita's config files in the user's %AppData% folder? Like the 'first run' indicator or something...

Not that I know of; I also know of no reason that Windows would take any write in AppData as a sign that the installation had broken, for that you'd need to write to the installation folder. Which, as far as I can tell, Krita doesn't do on its own. Since Krita pretty much is portable, you could try copying the krita install folder to some other place, uninstall Krita and try to run it from there. And then maybe after a week or two, check whether any file there has a changed time/date stamp?

giblet wrote:Not to discount the problem, but as a counterpoint -

I am running 2.83 x64 on a mid-range Surface Pro 3 (win 8.1 pro, i5 1.9ghz, 8gb ram, intel hd graphics 4400, 2160x1440 res) and it runs as well as anything else, with no particular issues that aren't also present in photoshop/gimp/etc.

Could I add it did run incredibly smooth (incredibly because I couldn't believe it managed to flawlessly manipulate a 8-10 layers 5000x3500px file) on a I3 4GB Surface Pro 3?

Azzart wrote:

giblet wrote:Not to discount the problem, but as a counterpoint -

I am running 2.83 x64 on a mid-range Surface Pro 3 (win 8.1 pro, i5 1.9ghz, 8gb ram, intel hd graphics 4400, 2160x1440 res) and it runs as well as anything else, with no particular issues that aren't also present in photoshop/gimp/etc.

Could I add it did run incredibly smooth (incredibly because I couldn't believe it managed to flawlessly manipulate a 8-10 layers 5000x3500px file) on a I3 4GB Surface Pro 3?

As soon as I can get my hands on some money... I'll be getting one of those

Hi there... sorry if I'm reviving a dead issue but I just recently got this problem.
I have the latest version and the lag is nearly unbearable. Every time I use a brush stroke, it lags like no other. Opening takes a while, me doing anything just lags. And this just started to happen to me. I first got Krita in May and it worked like a charm. It would only lag if I was zoomed out but now no matter how zoomed in I go, it still lags. I have a feeling this may be my computer but nothing else is slow at all. I play online games with not lag spikes at all so I feel it can't be me.
If it is Krita's problem, I just say speed the dang thing up before adding new gizmos.

If Krita is unusably slow on your machine it _is_ your machine, since Krita definitely is not unusably slow for the great majority of users. If Krita used to run fine, but now is unusably slow, then something changed, on your machine. Make sure you have installed the latest version: 2.9.10. Since you didn't say which operating system you are using, I'm guessing it's Windows. If you have a 64 bits version of Windows, make sure you're using a 64 bits version of Krita. Make sure you're not using snake-oil security software like Sandboxie that interferes with the way applications run. Try to move the config files away: close Krita, press windows-r, type "appdata", navigate into the Roaming folder and rename the krita folder to krita_bak, restart Krita. If that doesn't work, check whether enabling or disabling OpenGL makes a difference. Check whether you have one of those weird graphics cards that are faster if you use a 16 bit/channel image than if you use an 8 bit/channel image. If that doesn't work, check the memory settings and make sure Krita has enough memory.

Finally, check whether Instant Preview in the latest Animation demo helps for you: we're not "Adding new gizmos", we're working all the time on improving performance, fixing bugs and adding features that users tell us they need.