Pixinsight upgrade

[Comet Hunter]

Anyone upgrade to latest pixinsight update? I did this morning and it caused my computer to run sluggish when running pix
Any thoughts why? It ran fine before the upgrade?

 

[JimFox]

Hmm, I haven't updated yet. It caused your computer to slow down? That's not good.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Ed, ( @Comet Hunter )

A few thoughts that might or might not pertain to your issue.

• Firstly, I did already upgrade to the latest version and while I have not run it extensively I did do a couple things that should be representative of typical performance and it seems unchanged speed-wise between the latest version just installed and the previous one from what I have seen so far anyway.
• What exactly seems slower to you? I ask because there is one known situation that could be causing your issue depending on what routines you are running and what you might have done to speed up PixInsight previously. Specifically:
  • If you have an NVidia GPU
  • and if you had modded your previous installation of PixInsight to use the GPU for certain processing tasks (star removal with either Star XTerminator or Starnet is one obvious example)
  • then you will lose that modification when a new install is done. This is because the modified tensorflow.dll file that is replaced as part of the GPU utilization mod gets overwritten with the plain vanilla version when the new PixInsight is installed. Or more accurately, you should have uninstalled the old version and then installed the new version which comes by default with the non-GPU-aware version of the tensorflow.dll file as part of the new install.
  • The good news is that it is a simple matter to fix provided you have a saved copy of the GPU-aware tensorflow.dll still on your system somewhere. You can just once again place that file into the PixInsight bin directory overwriting the existing tensorflow.dll there (or to be safe rename that old one first to something else just in case) and then you should have your GPU accelerated performance back for the routines that support it, provided you had already performed all the other steps required.
  • I can walk you though some of this if it is confusing or if you have not yet made this mod - it is well worth it for sure as it speeds up the supported tasks VERY dramatically.
• However, if that does NOT sound like what is being slowed down for you, then I am not sure where the problem might be, since as stated above I had no issues with my install of the new version (once I swapped out my tensorflow.dll file as mentioned above...)

Let me know if you wish to discuss this more - even if it is not acting like what I describe above perhaps we can zero in on the issue...

ML