Offset Path Froze While "View Using GPU" is Activated

[Ridgehammer]

I have the "View Using GPU" activated. I was trying to create an offset path on the stem and leaves of the strawberry in my file (shared below) and it froze up.
I eventually quit the application and sent in the crash report when I reopened VS.
Strawberry 4.vstyler

[VectorStyler]

@Ridgehammer I opened a bug on this

[Boldline]

@VectorStyler speaking on the "View Using GPU" theme - I had asked if it was supposed to be on all the time or only for specific times and you replied that for now it would need to be turned on each time unless changed in the settings.

I noticed today that it's file dependent and not whole system dependent and I like that because I can decide which files get more attention and resources and not use it when it would be overkill on a simple project.

The way the GPU can be applied to only one tab if desired reminded me about the idea of keeping tabs self-contained so that if an action caused a freeze up, it would not affect other open tabs. The frozen tab itself could be force-quit and not lose the others. I don't know if that's possible or ideal based on how VS works, but it might be a great solution. Maybe even an option to "pause" those tabs so all resources could be used on a specific tab for a specific high intensity task and then "unpaused"

Brave browser has this option in part; if a browser window is not used for a certain amount of time, it pauses activity until it's been clicked on again

[VectorStyler]

@Boldline

I noticed today that it's file dependent and not whole system dependent

Yes, actual all display settings are saved with the file

[Boldline]

@VectorStyler said in Offset Path Froze While "View Using GPU" is Activated:

Yes, actual all display settings are saved with the file

I really like that! Is your thought for the user to turn that feature on when they know the project will be intensive? or to wait until it's complex and then start it?

[VectorStyler]

@Boldline said in Offset Path Froze While "View Using GPU" is Activated:

Is your thought for the user to turn that feature on when they know the project will be intensive?

The GPU based rendering needs more testing as different GPUs may behave differently.
I will become default somewhere around 1.4

[Honor]

@VectorStyler
Good to hear GPU rendering will become default around 1.4.
Just sharing my current experience in case it's useful for testing on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro, GPU mode actually feels worse than CPU for me. I get freezing and lag, especially when moving objects with blur or transparency applied.
I was wondering could heavy effects like Gaussian blur, background blur, and glow maybe be among the first things to move to the GPU? They seem to be the effects that slow the computer down the most, but I'm not sure how the rendering pipeline actually works internally. Figma handles things like backdrop blur and glass effects in real time without lag I'd love to see a similar kind of solution in VectorStyler one day.

Another thing I've been curious about while dragging or transforming objects that have effects applied, would it be possible to show a quick pixel/raster preview that switches back to full vector rendering once the mouse is released? VectorStyler already has Pixel display mode, so I was wondering if something similar could be reused temporarily during drag. Could that help make heavy effect documents feel smoother or would it be tricky to implement?

[VectorStyler]

@Honor Most image effects were already on GPU before. because of this in these cases the rendering is not going to get faster with GPU more.
I will test it more on the M1.

The pixel preview for dragging would be difficult to add, the only thing that could help is disabling image effects.

[Honor]

@VectorStyler Interesting that image effects are already on GPU so the slowdown I'm experiencing must be coming from somewhere else in the pipeline. I'll keep an eye on it after the M1 testing to see if anything specific stands out. Thanks for the response

[VectorStyler]

@Honor Can you send me a file (to my email) where dragging an object is slow with GPU mode?

[Honor]

@vectorstyler Sent the test file to your email.

A side note: this isn't specific to Gaussian Blur on my
M1 Pro, dragging any object with any Image Effect applied
causes the app to crash in GPU mode. And in general GPU
mode performs noticeably slower than CPU mode on my machine
which is the opposite of what I'd expect.