colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Using my main desktop machine (specs below) the astrophotography stack crashes after about 30 seconds of performing the stacking process if more than 8 files are set to be stacked. Have tried the 1.9.1.944 beta and this also crashes under the same conditions. OS and drivers up-to-date. Machine spec: AMD FX-8300 Eight Core Processor 3.30GHz 8.00GB DDR3 RAM Nvidia GeForce GT710 2GB. Driver 27.21.14.6140 Windows 10 Home 64bit. Version 20H2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2021 Hey colinmel, Welcome to the Affinity Forums. I'm not seeing a crash but I do get a blank canvas if I only use a few images. I have been testing this feautre throughout the beta using 700 images in a single stack, leaving it overnight to complete and it has been fine. Can you share the images with us please? Here's a private folder - https://www.dropbox.com/request/bGP75ivL9XayHIUNPlJu Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Thanks Chris! I know this feature does work as I have tried processing the same stack on another older AMD based machine and it works fine (but slower!). I even tried moving the graphics card from the 'good' machine to the 'bad' one but it still crashed. (no exception indicated, the program just disappears). Hardware acceleration set to False in preferences. The raw data files are lumix RW2 files. I've uploaded ten of them for you. Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 UPDATE! Suspecting a possible memory issue I changed the default 'RAM Usage Limit' of 8191 MB to 2048 MB. I can now process all 35 light files with no crashes! (still crashes though with 4096 MB set) (Another small issue - In Astrophotography Stack the 'Apply' button is highlighted even before the stack is processed. Surely at this stage the 'Stack' button should be highlighted?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2021 That's interesting. Does dropping the RAM usage limit affect anything else? Your 8 images were fine for me so that probably confirms the RAM issue... The Apply button is always blue for me and doesn't appear to change from first entering the Astro Persona all the way to clicking it. Am I missing something? Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Speed seemed to be unaffected by the reduction in RAM limit. There is still something not right with this. Should Photo 1.9 handle RAM issues better? I've been using Photoshop and Deep Sky Stacker on this machine with no memory issues at all. In fact no applications have ever crashed the way Affinity Photo 1.9 does. As regards the 'Apply' button, I would expect the 'Stack' button to be blue while selecting the files and the 'Apply' button only to turn blue once the stack has been processed. Hitting the blue 'Apply' button before the stack has been processed does nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2021 Can you try disabling OpenCL from Preferences > Performance and reset the RAM limit and try? Ah I see what you mean about the button. I can feed this back. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 OpenCL hardware acceleration has always been set to off. The GT710 is a very old graphics card! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Some more possibly useful information.... I set the RAM limit back to 8191 MB and set windows task monitor running. Attempted to stack 35 images and just before the program crashed there was a rapid increase in RAM used. It reached nearly 100%. Attached is the nearest screenshot I got to the crash. It would seem that Affinity Photo just keeps trying to grab more and more RAM until it can't get any more and then crashes. Smells like memory allocations not being checked for success or failure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2021 My memory usage doesn't got about 2.5GB or 66% using your files. Can you grab a log from C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\CrashReports\reports please? Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmel Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 Here you go. Crash report attached attempting to stack 12 files. 8f6c6a84-6b9f-44d9-bd39-1ab538e25173.dmp Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2021 Thank you. I will log this with the developers. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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