Hallo,
I am setting up a new notebook for my partner, and she told me the new system is slower than the old one (impossible). I guess our settings are suboptimal.
My terminology might be wrong as I translate back from german.

Task at hand: change layer style to shadow and changing distance from 7 to 50 pixel. This takes well above a minute. Is this normal?
Canvas Size: 1080*1920 (first rame in Anim-Jp-EN)
Only thing i found so far is **OpenGL not initialized**.
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Krita
Version: 4.1.7

Qt
Version (compiled): 5.9.3
Version (loaded): 5.9.3

OS Information
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-llp64
Build CPU: x86_64
CPU: x86_64
Kernel Type: winnt
Kernel Version: 10.0.17763
Pretty Productname: Windows 10 (10.0)
Product Type: windows
Product Version: 10

OpenGL Info
**OpenGL not initialized**
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Hardware: i7-4710MQ/8GB/SSD/optimus (Intel HD4600 / nvidia GT730M switchable)/win10pro 64
The GPUs shoudl be able to handle openGL 4.3 /4.5 respectively.
I tried OpenGL/Active X/ GPUacceleration off and different amounts of allocated memory as well as High quality /trilinear /bilinear filter.

The old system was c2d t7400/3GB/Hdd/ati-x1400 win10home / 32 and an older Version of Krita (installed last summer, likely 3.3. or 3.2). Apparently it felt faster.

My questions:
Are there any setting I shoudl look into?
Is the system suffitient for Krita?
Woudl going to an older Krita Version help performance on the System?

Any advice is highly appreciated

Best,
Ralf

GPU acceleration doesn't make a difference for the performance of layer styles. Without having access to the actual file, I cannot tell whether it's your system that's slow, or whether there's something up with the file.

Thanks for the reply.
Here is s small testfile to replicate the effect:
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/4d94722430c1a31eafe9c7f8c785d03420190129183635/4c7aa277de2f36864c20a96318563d5420190129183635/d00c4c

On our system it takes some ~ 5 second to render the shadows when I switch on /of the FX feature on the layer - is this normal performance?
Is " **OpenGL not initialized**" reason for concern?
OpenGL 4.3 or 4.5 should be available on our system. Is this sufficient?
Is it a good idea to use an older Krita version on older computers?

Anyhow: many thanks for the terrific software.

Best

Ralf

It's not quite five seconds here, but from what I see, it's fairly normal to take this much time. We'd like to optimize further, but, yes, for now this is what it is.