Processing will be slower in this version, unfortunately. It’s a trade-off between stability and the processing speed upgrade from the new Tensorflow version 5.1.5 was using.
Nvidia also offers Studio drivers as well as game Ready. Are not the Studio drivers more for 2D & 3D graphic applications? At least that is my understanding based on the 2D & 3D forums I frequent. Care to elaborate?
It was a red herring - to my knowledge it didn’t actually make a difference besides forcing a flush of VRAM memory usage, which would ultimately make Gigapixel more stable for a limited time. We had told a few people to switch to the Game Ready driver to fix the issue (which it didn’t), so wanted to make sure I explained in the changelog that that’s not necessary.
This is true. The last version caused some confusion on which would be ideal for Gigapixel, but it’s no longer the case now. You’re free to use whatever driver type you’ve used in the past.
Thank you for the insights you provide this community! It’s a big improvement over where we were left on our own to speculate about issues in the past.
It’s a problem with Tensorflow in particular, and my fault for thinking the upgrade would go as smoothly as it did in DeNoise / Sharpen. Both went through a Tensorflow dependency upgrade with no changes to the user experience. Gigapixel is much more complicated on the backend when it comes to it’s dependencies, something we weren’t aware of until issues arose in the last version.
In the coming months, we’ll be getting rid of Tensorflow entirely and replacing it with a more sophisticated AI inference back-end (the same one that VEAI is beta testing currently). It causes the majority of crashes on both Windows and Mac, due to unbound VRAM usage and lack of error checking in the library itself.
Whoa, thank you for such detailed explanation! I’ll be sure to use this knowledge in my experiments with this library.
The dready (for me with Win7 back then) OpenCV libraries in the past also didn’t fare well I reckon?
I noticed that OpenVINO option set as OFF gives sharper results with this known Viking warrior lady:
I was the one of that persons with driver issues. On my RTX 2060 Super everything is OK now. That was horrible for few days. Thans Emily for your patience.
Performance in 5.1.5 on CPU was fantastic - much faster than GPU (AMD 3950 / 2080TI). Is there any chance for this kind of performance in the future versions ?
Ran 5.1.5 to open an image, then it froze and I forced it to close. Reopened 5.1.5 again (to my knowledge) and started the update. Got the error posted above and cancelled the update. As a result my parallel installation of 4.2.2 (for more than 6x magnification) was removed.
The second image Man-made is not as soft or dull as the Natural with Face refinement and shadows are muted in the Natural processing model.
Note I have reverted to the latest Studio driver and there are no longer the previous problems reported. I have also seen, in other threads, the RTX problem has also gone away. My environment is:
