Crash during Panorama Creation

[PhotoKaz]

I'm trying to create a large panorama in Affinity Photo but the program crashes every time I create the pano.  It's fairly big, total 20 input files with combined size of 2.6GB. 

Sometimes it crashes after the render stage.  Most times it crashes when I'm trying to trim the transparent pixels.

I rebooted, uninstalled and installed the latest version 1.8.5.703, still happening.  Driving me crazy. 

[stokerg]

Hi @PhotoKaz and Welcome to the Forums,

Could you try this in the latest beta from here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/125070-affinity-photo-windows-customer-beta-190780/ and see if you get the same crash.

We may need to get the files from you in order to try to replicate the issue.

 

[PhotoKaz]

I installed the beta, it stitched the panorama but as soon as I click "ok" it crashed.  No error, the program just closes.

[PhotoKaz]

Note that I was able to create the pano when using jpg files (exported from raw) but not with tif files (same images).

[stokerg]

Hi PhotoKaz,

If you go into Preferences for Affinity and change the Renderer to WARP and then see if you can complete a stitch without crash.  It may be slower, but will be interesting to see if it crashes on that setting.

[PhotoKaz]

It completed without issue using WARP.  I tested again using the GPU, this time it stitched the pano and rendered.  I went to crop -> clip to opaque and when I hit apply it crashed again.

Interestingly, I was watching GPU usage during both processes and didn't see a significant use of the GPU during either operation.  It also didn't seem much slower using WARP than it did using GPU, does the panorama function actually use the GPU to any real benefit?  I have 64GB of RAM and a fast CPU (overclocked Ryzen 3800X) in case that is useful.  

It looks like I have a workaround for now, but what functions of the app will suffer if I leave the setting on WARP?

[PhotoKaz]

bump

[PhotoKaz]

Anyone have some input?

[mamik77777]

Hi, I have a similar crash with 6 DNG images, affinity crash after panorama creation. It work only changing the GPU acceleration from nvidia geforce gxt 950m to the internal intel (is a laptop with 2 graphic cards).

Thanks

[PhotoKaz]

Support is not very useful for this app unfortunately.