General Known Issues

⚠️ General Known Issues

This page lists issues that are not specific to one install method. Each install guide has its own Troubleshooting section for issues specific to that method (Wine, Lutris, Bottles, Heroic, Rum, or the script installer). Check those first if your issue only happens with one tool.

GLIBC Version Mismatch

Symptom:

wine: could not load ntdll.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found

Some users hit this with the script installer but can get a working install with the manual guide method instead. It happens when your distribution's system GLIBC is older than what the Wine build expects.

Workaround: use the manual Install-Guide-Wine method, use a distribution with a newer GLIBC, or use Linux-Affinity-Installer (ryzendew's project)'s AppImage, which bundles its own dependencies.

Wayland / Display Scaling

Window cut off or missing its title bar when maximized (KDE Plasma Wayland)

Root cause, confirmed by live testing: KDE bug 459373. KWin's XWayland maximize sizing breaks at fractional display scales that don't divide evenly into your monitor's native resolution. This is specific to KWin, the compositor KDE Plasma uses. Issue #129 looked similar at first, but that reporter is on COSMIC (cosmic-comp), a different compositor entirely, so this KWin-specific cause does not apply there. See Affinity's own Maximize button computes an undersized window instead, that bug is compositor-independent and matches #129 more closely.

Workaround: switch to a scale factor that divides your native resolution evenly. For example, use 160% instead of 150% on a 2560x1600 panel. See Install-Guide-Wine's Troubleshooting section for the full walkthrough.

This is a separate bug from Affinity's own maximize-button behaviour. See the Roadmap for that one.

Cursor offset on GNOME with display scaling

Reported as Issue #126.

GNOME's scaling stack may hit an issue similar to the KDE bug above. This is not yet confirmed.

Affinity V3 Freezes at Very High Zoom (NVIDIA Hybrid / Fedora Wayland)

Reported as Issue #134.

Root cause, traced by the reporter: a float-precision overflow in Wine's d2d1 matrix transform, at roughly 8,232,116% zoom, which is the single-precision mantissa limit (2^23). Clamping the matrix scale below 2^23 should prevent the freeze, but no fix has landed yet.

Missing .NET 3.5 on Native Wine 11.7

Reported as Issue #130.

Affects users on a newer, distro-packaged (native) Wine 11.7 install, rather than a manually installed one. If you hit this, try installing the dotnet35 winetricks component alongside dotnet48. No confirmed fix yet. Please report your results on the issue thread.