As the title suggests, I’m experiencing a serious performance problem. I’m attaching a video so you can see how bad it is. I really need help, right now I’m unable to create products for my projects.
In Krita painting is not done by the GPU but the CPU. You can try setting another renderer than OpenGL and try if that makes a difference but normally graphics acceleration in Krita is only used for paning, rotating and zooming the canvas and making sure it is smooth.
CPU is doing the painting, compositing and all the brush work. 16 bit float can be quite demanding, you also have set the document to use HDR color space which is unusual. Can you make an image in 8 bit per channel sRGB color space with sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc color profile, and test if that makes a difference?
You’re right, 16-bit wasn’t really necessary. I just switched to 8-bit, and it mostly fixed the brush stroke lag. However, there’s still noticeable delay when using the Layer Style features.
As for the battery, I removed it from my laptop a long time ago. It’s plugged directly into power, so it always runs at full performance.
Also, do you know how I can disable HDR color space?
You can change the color profile right there where you also change the bit depth and color space when you create a document. The default is the one I mentioned earlier so you changed it already at some point.
Layer styles are pretty badly optimized and are known to make everything slow. Because of this it’s recommended to turn them off while painting. A stroke that lags behind a lot can also come from a too high brush smoothing setting or a graphics tablet that isn’t configured correctly.
Thank you for your help! I used to paint and use filters in Photoshop without any lag, so after seeing this kind of lag, I thought my PC had become outdated even for drawing programs. Still, Krita is the best open source free painting software I’ve seen so far.
Krita has filters and masks too but layer styles are different. Most of them aren’t even implemented yet which says a lot about the state they’re in, unfortunately.
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