Looking for some troubleshooting help. Using Krita 5.0.6 on a Windows 10 PC. 32GB Ram, Intel 10 core processor, dual head EVGA GeForce GT1030 SC video card, SSD and HDD drives, Huion tablet… Krita will hang-up or become unresponsive occasionally. Everything just grinds to a standstill. Nothing work…

Hi [image] larrycross: It seems (seems) that it has something to do with layers - or working within the layers window. Quite often I’m moving layers up or down, locking or unlocking layers, picking brush types, nothing terribly sophisticated tech-wise. Something is causing Krita to stop respond…

It’s a little early to tell for sure but I’ve already noticed an improvement. I went into the Configuration menu under Performance and started tweaking some of the settings. I made a number of adjustments and the problem seems to have gone away. I’ve been working all morning and so far nothing bad t…

In the first tab of the performance settings ‘‘General’’, you can normally set the ‘‘Memory Limit’’ to 66% (24 GB) without any problems. If you have more than 100 GB free space on drive C:, you can increase the ‘‘File Size Limit’’ at ‘‘Swap File Size’’ to 64 GB, at 90 GB free to 54 GB, at 80 GB to …

very cool thanks Michelist for the tips. I’ll play around with the settings. I should add something: after I posted the original responses yesterday, I noticed something else happening. When I would try to erase something on a layer, it would also remove whatever was on the background layer (which w…

Yep that seems to have settled it. I’ll need a few more hours of drawing before I can say “case closed” but already a big improvement. Thanks again!

Oh well - afraid the changes actually made things worse. Krita is now just crashing completely. No warning, just poof gone. I’ll keep at it but I was actually better off with the original settings. At least it didn’t die completely. I’ve tweaked things a bit more and so far so good but I’ll need a …

Might sound a bit dumb, but is it possible you have autosave turned on and it’s making your system hang whenever it fires? Might have some info, but when you open %LOCALAPPDATA%/kritacrash.log, scroll all the way to the bottom and then scroll up until you see something similar to -----------------…

Thanks for the tip Ralek. I thought about that and had turned on error reporting option but at the moment, Krita seems to be behaving. I made a few more performance tweaks and it seems ok now. But I’ll wait a few days and run some more projects with it before passing judgment. I’ll upload the lates…

I ended up resetting Krita to factory defaults. It was the only way to get it to function properly (which means I’m back to the momentary hang-ups, but at least it’s not crashing or doing other worse things). I also tried installing the latest Beta release in hopes maybe something related to this go…

Krita hanging up (unresponsive) for brief moments

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Grum999 July 16, 2022, 2:16pm 2

I have this kind of problem with layers, especially if filter layer and/or layer styles are applied on layers on which I’m working on…

Can’t really tell if you have exactly the same problem than mine, but it looks like mine (but on my side it’s more during many minutes I’m blocked…)

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