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Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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I downloaded a fresh copy of the latest beta. With both an asi294 pro and an asi224 color/cooled just after stacking is initiated SC closes abruptly.
I tried running "c:\Program Files (x86)\SharpCap 3.1\SharpCap.exe" /dump but no file was created. Just one time the error dialog raised and I sent it but in several other tries it appeared to just shut down.
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Re: Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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Looks like you're lucky - retesting that one this morning it is crashing for me on startup. Sorry about that - the result of coding last thing at night to 'just get that finished' I think.

I've removed that latest 3.1 build for now, will work out what is going on and put up a new one later.

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Well it turned out that I had a rogue dll from an old version in the install folder which was causing the crash on startup. I have made a new build and live stacking works for me in it with both the test camera and a real camera. If you are still having problems with 3.1.4784 then please let me know what OS, what spec system, what camera and include any log file you can recover from

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that has a timestamp that matches the crash.

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Re: Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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I did a fresh install of the latest beta. It opened normally. I selected the asi294 pro and after the image window and controls appeared I selected live stack and it closed down with the frame count still 0.

I then attempted to start v 3 and it hung, top menu grayed out using 37.69 MB memory and 37,69% CPU. The mount was off and I wonder if it hung because it was waiting for a connection to the mount?

Turned mount on.

Removed beta. Restarted windows, v 3 loads and runs normally. Reinstalled 3.1, selected the 294 pro, and it appeared to function normally. I selected stacking and it shut down before the first frame loaded. Started v 3 and it loads and runs normally.

Windows 10 Home v1709 build 16299.125 64bt OS/processor

CPU i5-6400 @2.7GH, 8 GB ram

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Thanks for the update. I'd hoped that it was just a memory issue but it doesn't look like it now. I will test with my ASI071, which is as close to the 294 as I have - if that is OK then I may need to send you some test builds so that we can track this down - hope that's OK.

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Re: Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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Robin, anything you need from me on this -- cheerfully done.

I think that this may not be camera specific but perhaps ZWO specific, an earlier attempt with a 224 had the same problem. I have four ZWO cameras available to test, a 294, a 224, a 290, and a 120.

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Hi David,

thanks :)

I have just tested with the ASI071 in build 4791(indoors, so no real stars) and it manages to stack without crashing in RAW8 and RAW16 mode so far. I wonder if you could do some tests using the 'Test Camera 1 (deep sky)'. Start with the default image and then move up through some larger deep sky image frames if you have them (or can download them) until you get near to the resolution of your 294 camera and see if anything works (or not).

If the test camera crashes for everything then we have rules out a problem with the ZWO cameras and we are looking for something weird on your machine. If it works for small frames and starts crashing on larger ones then it starts to look like memory issues. If the test camera works right up to high resolutions then it may well be something odd with the ZWO cameras.

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Oh yes, one more thing - please test build 3.0.4055 - if that works fine then it's unlikely to be to do with the changes I have had to make to sort out the Windows Defender problems (as that build has those changes too).

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Re: Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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I installed build 4055.0 and replaced the m42 image in the Sample folder with a 25.1 MB (26,339,997 bytes) .png image of M45. Selecting test camra 1 (deep sky) I started stacking. I did three runs 96 frames, 107 frames and 120 frames. CPU usage was in the 42 to 47% range and memory moved between about 650MB and 870MB but with one excursion to 1083MB. While stacking the histogram would change slightly, small peaks up and down and there was a regular up and down shift in the entire line.

After 96, 107 and 120 frames /TE I moved the black level slider 40 or 50% to the right. Stacking stopped. Selecting individual frames and then Stack restarted stacking. Next I let it stack for 380 frames and again moving the slider stopped stacking. Selecting individual frames and then Stack restarted stacking. The current stack is at 412 frames and has been stopped/restarted three times. When stacking restarts moving the BL slider back to the right also stops stacking. Pause/Resume also restarts stacking.

I installed 3.1.4791.0. I replaced the m42 image with the m45 image (again renamed as m42_dim.png). I started test camera 1, and a black image appeared 0 frame rate and 1290 x 760 capture area. I wasn't able to enter a custom capture area greater than 3072x.

Reverting to the original m42_dim.png, stacking crashed immediately. Switching to an asi290mono stacking crashed in one frame.

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Re: Latest Beta Closes Just after Stacking Starts

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