# Gigapixel v8.1.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Releases\ **Created:** [January 15, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065 "2025-01-15T08:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/tpx/32/194727_2.png) [@TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/TPX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/24 "2025-01-16T22:18:24Z")
> [@Fotomaker](#): > > But I can’t imagine it was anything like they are now. It was much more complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/25 "2025-01-16T22:29:22Z")
The latest version has a weird bug. I’m scaling a vintage poster for restoration. For the test, I’m using Redefine. The base resolution (a resolution already increased by other models) is 2944 x 4548. And I’m scaling it up to 9090 x 14043. After more than 1 hour, it had reached half +/-. Now I come back to see where it is and I see that it’s back to the very beginning. ![image](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/c/5/c581666f49b4484f3c86ddb6cd4a606bb1d6bf74.jpeg) I hope it’s not a loop, otherwise I’ll never be able to finish this picture. It’s very, very boring. ---
**Author:** ![rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/rayinsanmiguel/32/57792_2.png) [@rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/rayinsanmiguel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/26 "2025-01-16T22:50:52Z")
The progress bar can be ignored. On one image of mine it started at 2m (Ha bloody ha on an M-series?), then went to 75 then 62 and finally completed in about 30m! ---
**Author:** ![pro-software.it](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c6cbf5/32.png) [@pro-software.it](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/pro-software.it)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/27 "2025-01-16T23:01:34Z")
Any plan to optimize the processing time in the next releases ? ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/28 "2025-01-17T00:04:35Z")
And now he’s finished. He indicated 1h5 of rendering It had already been running for over 2 hours… But as soon as I pressed “done”, it recalculated the image. At the moment, it’s been running like this for 3-4 minutes now. ![image](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/b/1/b1af25c0f078072b8265f21c58424ede19c3c9f0.jpeg) I think it’s a major bug. I have the impression that I’m back to the same rendering time as before. It will be double in all. Unless I get the same thing when exporting. Which has happened a few times before. ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/29 "2025-01-17T00:09:34Z")
But it’s not just Redefine that does this. I’ve already had the same problem with Recovery. In short, with the only 2 models that are very resource-hungry, despite my RTX 3070. ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/31 "2025-01-17T00:16:55Z")
Probably. It was the 60’s. Completely different components (I assume). That was before my time to be doing stuff like that… ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/32 "2025-01-17T00:21:43Z")
My image, that wasn’t that large, ran longer than it should local to my RTX 4090 (or, my AMD RX6800 XT) only it did so in the Topaz proverbial “Cloud”. ---
**Author:** ![TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/tpx/32/194727_2.png) [@TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/TPX)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/33 "2025-01-17T00:30:19Z")
> [@Fotomaker](#): > > Probably. It was the 60’s. 😅 in the 90ties until 2K7. 60ties is like “build everything yourself”. ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/34 "2025-01-17T00:42:49Z")
The image is well and truly recalculated. As you can see from the little blue progress bar. ![image](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/1/9/192c9def1fe54f3716f848e9e4f211ea76277ca3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/36 "2025-01-17T00:45:53Z")
Well, you can see the parameters in my screenshot. For the image I’m scaling, here it is: > **[Affiche 12 ( Exposition de Charleroi de 1911) gigapixel low resolution v2 2x...](https://postimg.cc/hXV7rLgM)** By the way, the export must be in png with compression set to 2 to avoid compression artifacts. ---
**Author:** ![Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Harald.De.Luca](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Harald.De.Luca)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/37 "2025-01-17T00:49:51Z")
Yeah so like I say, there’s a big bug. ---
**Author:** ![mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/mikmod1/32/239469_2.png) [@mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/mikmod1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/38 "2025-01-17T01:28:08Z")
Well, this is insane. Even if the prompt wasn’t followed that much. 🙂 ![obraz](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/7/2/724fa2dc94db4746c5d959de6d54e275cdd77ab9.jpeg) ![obraz](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/b/8/b87b6757896251d79bb11405e2b5f990a36183ae.jpeg) From 375x500 to 3840x5120 🙂 I’ll include the source image for anyone to try! ![E431LcxXMAAlOJU](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/4/d/4d1547106a0d15e043df5e92c6925cb343e08e62.jpeg) ![E431LqlWEAA2_dq](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/6/1/617fdfbf3a33728db752d2f4e10cec913e3355a2.jpeg) PS. Holy mackerels. ![obraz](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/8/f/8f2741fddc6ca525ade961d30027b04e49452953.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/jo.vo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/39 "2025-01-17T01:32:25Z")
> [@Harald.De.Luca](#): > > I’m scaling it up to 9090 x 14043 Why that wierd resolution/ scale-factor? ---
**Author:** ![jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/jo.vo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/40 "2025-01-17T01:45:19Z")
This is the result of Gigapixel for iOS (on device rendering „just faces“): ![IMG_4318](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/c/1/c1e5ad411e0582f81f366ae3267ded67df33a450.jpeg) Not too shabby for a mobile device - and done in only few seconds. Online renderings of course give MUCH higher quality. ---
**Author:** ![mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/mikmod1/32/239469_2.png) [@mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/mikmod1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/41 "2025-01-17T01:47:56Z")
It’s actually decent! For my screenshots I used totally offline processing, of course. ---
**Author:** ![jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/jo.vo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/42 "2025-01-17T02:05:26Z")
Yes, unfortunately there is no option to do those Redefine renderings on device in the iOS version (even though the hardware should support it with acceptable speed as long as you only deal with low res images). But I guess there would be no way to monetarise the app otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/jo.vo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/43 "2025-01-17T02:10:00Z")
And this is the second image, this time using the offline/cloud-rendering of the iOS App: ![IMG_4321](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/a/3/a3a970bda72a50dbb3a6f6fb58b57724fa321619.jpeg) Quite stunning. ---
**Author:** ![mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/mikmod1/32/239469_2.png) [@mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/mikmod1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/44 "2025-01-17T02:25:39Z")
This is very good! ---
**Author:** ![mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/mikmod1/32/239469_2.png) [@mikmod1](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/mikmod1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/45 "2025-01-17T02:28:57Z")
I wish there weren’t an incentive to monetize the application development at all. But the resources/ access to the GPU farm to train the models costs A LOT. [Previous page](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065.md?page=3)