Linux support for Giga Pixel and Video would be awesome.
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Good idea!
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Linux support would be great, in particular all the AI applications are of interest to me. But most of all I would like Gigapixel AI and DeNoise AI. Porting the GUI I suspect is the most complicated task, personally though I would be perfectly fine with just a command line tool 
Having been tinkering with trying to run these with CrossOver and Wine, but not much success so far.
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+1 for Linux support! Iāve got $300 burning a hole in my pocket right now, but no access to Windows machines!
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I agree with @Awesam. We have very few alternative tools on Linux. They can be insanely difficult to install. Even if you manage to get them working, they are not able to handle many varieties of input images very well.
Gigpixel, and Video Enhance would be welcomed with open arms. You have no idea how many Linux users want to use your software!
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Iām on Ubuntu 20.04 on an AMD threadripper and a standard RTX 2080. I have licenses of all Topaz products .
Iām installing the software with Lutris and have some succes.
In Lutris i choose Wine System 5.0.1 as runner.
Itās work fine for some, not for all.
Jpeg2raw wonāt run because itās detected something like a debugger. i donāt know what itās mean but itās close imediately.
Video Enhance AI is working fine but itās say i have 32 days left even i enter my credentials.
MAsk AI seams to crash when i use autodetect.
Others seems to working great
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Video Enhance works? When I tried a few months back I could only get Gigapixel to work, but Video Enhance wouldnāt. Thatās good news.
Even just a CLI version would be fine by me, and probably most Linux users would be okay with that, too.
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What happens if you run the Calibration from the Preferences? After that it shouldnāt crash. Or, at least, it doesnāt on Windows.
Just click on calibrate, open a image, and draw a rough mask then use ai or contrast to calculate the mask and it will run the calibration.
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Happy to hear that you were able to install it.
When I try Topaz Denoise installer in Lutris with Wine runner (v5.0 and v5.7), the installation process succeed but thereās no way to launch the installed app. Thereās no new banner with āTopaz Denoiseā and I donāt find any shortcut to it.
Am I missing something? How can I launch the app?
Thanks
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When you add a āgameā in lutris, you select the setup.exe of you topaz product.
then you install it and at the end you have an icon or vignette in your lutris list .
this on restart the setup exe if you " play" this one.
so you have to right click on this to modify the path of the exe.
instead of the setup.exe, you have to select the exe wich was createted by wine in c:/programfiles/topaz/topadenoise/topaz.exe or something like that.
After that, when you start the icone or vignette in lutris, it start the software.
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Ooh yea for a linux version of Denose and sharpen would been fantastic if you could make a Linux version I pay happily again to have on Linux (Manjaro Linux)
Best regards a happy user
Peter
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Yes please. Would really like a native linux version.
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Yes please, native Linux support would be much appreciated, Iād happily pay for Video Enhance AI and Gigapixel AI
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Just wanted to add a +1 on thisā¦ Iām considering switching to Linux full timeā¦ as it is, most of my project time is already in Linux or WSL. Iād love to drop Windows entirely. Iāve spent time ripping/reencoding old content, but have wanted to step it up a notch, now that I finally have a good enough video card, thinking of pulling the triggerā¦ would buy a second time for a linux license hands down.
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Just for the search engines and many people, who stumble over this thread (like me); I think all of you, who replied to this thread, will know already, that it works with WINE:
DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI and Gigapixel AI works nearly perfect and fully(!) with WINE, at least over PlayOnLinux.
My setup:
Ubuntu 20.04 (x64)
PlayOnLinux
Winetricks
WINE 6.17 for Sharpen AI and Gigapixel AI
WINE 5.6 for DeNoise (maybe 6.17 will work too, untested)
All three need libraries in WINE:
- concrt140 (Native, Builtin)
- vcruntime140_1 (Native, Builtin) - double check to use the ā_1ā
ā If not working, try without / remove the library vcruntime140_1
Iām also able to use my NVidia GPU for processing by adding a script in the starter (.desktop file at /usr/share/applications) before the exec command. Please note the ā around the original command:
...
Exec=/usr/sbin/dgpu '/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Topaz DeNoise AI" %F'
....
/usr/sbin/dgpu contains:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1;
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia;
$@;
You can alternatively also set the /usr/sbin/dgpu as exec command in PlayOnLinux (Configuration ā Misc (? itās the last tab on the right side) ā Exec command. This command will be executed before every start of the app.
Hope this helps someone. Have fun, I love it
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Linux support would indeed be great!! I donāt use it ATM but Iām back and forth between it and Windows.
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Adding my vote for Linux support. Iām setting up my new Framework laptop, which Iāve configured to dual boot Fedora w/ Nixpkgs and NixOS itself, and so far Iāve been really happy with my DAW. Having this as well would give me a solid portable workstation.
Heard about Video Enhance AI through some friends who talk it up frequently in a video encoding discord Iām in. Itās not currently part of my workflow but I would love to buy it to have an alternative to the fast but lower quality tools I use now such as ravu, amd fsr etc.
If it had a linux x86_64 build.
I havenāt tried yet but this is extremely good news, thanks a lot for posting instructions! If Gigapixel AI can run on Linux with NVIDIA CUDA acceleration, I am done with Windows!
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Having just ditched Windows for Linux, the amount of photographic ārealā software for high end work is sadly lacking and to have this software for Linux would mean so much and be great to have in my graphics folder.
