Polar Align causes sharpcap crash

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tsprecher1
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Polar Align causes sharpcap crash

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Simply starting sharpcap, selecting a camera and clicking on polar align will cause a crash every time.

v3.2.6219.0 - camera asi533mc pro or asi120 - windows 10

ERROR
exception system.DLL Not found exception

Unable to load DLL 'SharpCap.starDetector.dll' A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed
(Exeption from HRESULT:0x8007045A)
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Re: Polar Align causes sharpcap crash

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Post by admin »

Hi,

The quick solution for this is to switch from the 64-bit version of SharpCap to the 32-bit version of SharpCap. For some reason on a small handful of computers this problem seems to occur in the 64-bit version and I'm afraid I don't really understand why. The code that does the star detection for the polar alignment routines and other things like live stacking just won't load :-( Unfortunately this happens at a point where it's very difficult to get further information about the problem without using developer tools like a debugger.

I tried some tests myself like running the 64-bit version of SharpCap and a brand-new Windows 10 install with no other software thinking that maybe I would see the same problem, but so far I haven't been able to make it break myself.

Cheers, Robin
tsprecher1
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Re: Polar Align causes sharpcap crash

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Post by tsprecher1 »

Robin,

Thanks for the quick reply. I will reinstall a 32 bit version and post the results.

Tom S
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