Bug 512502 - Krita, Windows - Blur filter is heavily slowing down Krita
Summary: Krita, Windows - Blur filter is heavily slowing down Krita
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.2.13
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2025-11-23 10:45 UTC by Wolfgang Baer
Modified: 2025-11-23 11:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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gif demonstrating the issue (1.87 MB, image/gif)
2025-11-23 10:45 UTC, Wolfgang Baer
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Description Wolfgang Baer 2025-11-23 10:45:49 UTC
Created attachment 187089 [details]
gif demonstrating the issue

Issue:
A layer setup using "blur filter masks" slows down Krita severly.
It is not excactly a bug, but a heavy limitation in image editing,

Test file:
1200 x 900 pix, 16bit integer (attached to this report).

Test system:
CPU: Intel Core i7 - 10750H (6 cores, 12 threads)
    Max Turbo Frequency: 5.00 GHz
    Processor Base Frequency: 2.60 GHz
Ram: 16 GB
Storage: NVMe SSD
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 MaxQ + Intel® UHD Graphics

Steps to reproduce:
- please watch the provided gif

The gif animation shows the time it takes to enable the layer groups containing the blur filters. But changing something in the layer stack also is slow. If the blur filters are disabled everything goes faster.

Tested on Krita 5.2.13 and Krita 5.3
Comment 1 Wolfgang Baer 2025-11-23 10:50:47 UTC
Due to a size limit I wasn't able to attach the test file.
Here is a link to my google drive instead:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NbJnvxC1Dm1MeEndZK0tW-By9e9XJkVi
Comment 2 dra.w.p.il.e+bugskde 2025-11-23 11:58:49 UTC
Please use the feature requests category on the krita-artists.org forum for these kinds of issues instead: https://krita-artists.org/c/develop/feature-requests/17

Users can vote for threads there (you can vote for your own thread) and leave feedback more easily than on this developer-focused bugtracker, so the forum gives much better insight in that regard and makes it easier to reach affected users for testing attempted fixes. The bugtracker is really only good for actual bugs, cf. the "reporting bugs" manual page for which kind of issues make sense to report on it: https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/reporting_bugs.html#only-report-bugs