Crashing during flat capturing
Crashing during flat capturing
Hi,
I tried to capture flats using my Atik 314L camera and Sharpcap 3.2
Every things went well till Sharpcap crashed at the end of the capture (see screen shots)
Same problem occured whether I checked tick box 'Capture and subtract bias frames' or not.
This problem does not occur with Sharpcap 3.1.
Set up : Atik 314L camera, Windows 7 PRO
Please help!
Cheers
Remy
I tried to capture flats using my Atik 314L camera and Sharpcap 3.2
Every things went well till Sharpcap crashed at the end of the capture (see screen shots)
Same problem occured whether I checked tick box 'Capture and subtract bias frames' or not.
This problem does not occur with Sharpcap 3.1.
Set up : Atik 314L camera, Windows 7 PRO
Please help!
Cheers
Remy
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Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi Remy,
Two possibilities here :
1) You have a very old CPU that does not support the code that I use for high speed flat correction. If your CPU does not support SSE4 instructions then flat frame correction will not work for you. You should typically be OK with CPUs made less than about 8 years ago.
2) There was a bug in this section of code that I fixed today and is in 3.2.5825 - under some circumstances the code was reading beyond the end of the frame data and causing a crash. Therefore updating to this new version may help.
In the case of 1) there is a check to stop you selecting a flat frame if your CPU is unsuitable - unfortunately the capture flat frame option bypasses this check - I will fix.
cheers,
Robin
Two possibilities here :
1) You have a very old CPU that does not support the code that I use for high speed flat correction. If your CPU does not support SSE4 instructions then flat frame correction will not work for you. You should typically be OK with CPUs made less than about 8 years ago.
2) There was a bug in this section of code that I fixed today and is in 3.2.5825 - under some circumstances the code was reading beyond the end of the frame data and causing a crash. Therefore updating to this new version may help.
In the case of 1) there is a check to stop you selecting a flat frame if your CPU is unsuitable - unfortunately the capture flat frame option bypasses this check - I will fix.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi Robin,
Thank you for your quick answer.
Unfortunatelly I am in case 1 with my AMD Athlon II processor
Nevertheless, as Sharpcap saves a flat picture before crashing, can I use this image for further pre-processing?
Thank you.
Cheers.
Remy
Thank you for your quick answer.
Unfortunatelly I am in case 1 with my AMD Athlon II processor
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
Nevertheless, as Sharpcap saves a flat picture before crashing, can I use this image for further pre-processing?
Thank you.
Cheers.
Remy
Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi Robin,
After testing again, what I have understood is that I can create 'valid' flat frames using Sharpcap, but I cannot use them (and any other flat frame created by other softwares) with Sharpcap because my old CPU does not support SSE4 instructions.
Am I right?
Thank you.
Cheers
Remy
After testing again, what I have understood is that I can create 'valid' flat frames using Sharpcap, but I cannot use them (and any other flat frame created by other softwares) with Sharpcap because my old CPU does not support SSE4 instructions.
Am I right?
Thank you.
Cheers
Remy
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Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi Remy,
yes, that's right.
cheers,
Robin
yes, that's right.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Crashing during flat capturing
How to turn off this message?
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Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi,
there's currently no way to turn off the message about the unsupported CPU - it will appear each time you run SharpCap to warn you that using certain advanced functions will cause the software to crash.
sorry,
Robin
there's currently no way to turn off the message about the unsupported CPU - it will appear each time you run SharpCap to warn you that using certain advanced functions will cause the software to crash.
sorry,
Robin
Re: Crashing during flat capturing
I understand, which is a shame because it makes SharpCap's automation more difficult. I use scripts and automatic imaging startup. But I have to be physically available to click OK on the message. I wrote a script in Python to run SharpCap and click OK, but my computer is old and needs too much time to boot up to run the program. Unfortunately, after such a long time, SharpCap no longer loads startup scripts.
I'm hoping for changes to be made to the software so that I can read this message once and point out that I am fully aware that some things will not work due to that my computer is too old.
Thanks
I'm hoping for changes to be made to the software so that I can read this message once and point out that I am fully aware that some things will not work due to that my computer is too old.
Thanks
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Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi,
I will have a look to see how easy it would be to have a 'do not show this again' checkbox (or similar).
thanks,
Robin
I will have a look to see how easy it would be to have a 'do not show this again' checkbox (or similar).
thanks,
Robin
Re: Crashing during flat capturing
Hi Robin
Thank you for changing the message. This solves my automation problem.
Regards
Maciej
Thank you for changing the message. This solves my automation problem.
Regards
Maciej