Just thought I’d mention something wierd that I’ve discovered, not to do with the software, but the Nvidia Drivers.
About a week ago when the latest drivers were available I decided to us the NVCleanInstall software to do a clean install.
I’ve been trying to upscale a video but it’s incredibly slow, so I thought I’d check on Geforce Experience out of curiosity, only to discover that NVCleanInstall had actually installed older drivers against my wishes!
So, if anybody has similar problems, make doubly sure the correct drivers have actually been installed, and don’t put all your trust into 3rd party software such as NVCleanInstall.
Does anyone else have the following problem? Okay, so instead of the default destination folder, for exports, I set up a folder in my external hard drive. All throughout the process I’d periodically check by right clicking on the progressing video and there was nothing showing in the new destination folder. I let it run throughout the night, and upon what I thought would be a completed file, a banner showed that Topaz had suddenly quit. And so unsurprisingly no complete file. I won’t be taking any chances next time as it’s been a waste of 24hrs.
Nvidia has their own clean uninstall if i remember well. the only other correct one is one from the 3dguru website.
Usually what’s often happen when uninstalling a Driver, is that windows, install the generic one which is in his database and then put an older driver. unless your software does this, it’s usually the issue. making an uninstall in a way where no generic or old nvidia driver installed by Windows replace the one that you uninstalled ;).
suggestion : don’t try this software on day one by rendering a 24 hours videos. does some test before with much smaller videos, to see that everything is working correct.
a software can crash for a lot of reasons, related to the software or not. I would suggest to reach the support, because with as few informations as you tell here, i’m afraid that users (us) will not be very helpeful.
Thanks mate. Had two previous successful exports (roughly same rendering times too) so the common denominator, to me anyway, is the path I created. I’ll reach out to support though. Appreciate you responding
yes, lot of things is possible. until a resume possibility is available, best is maybe to cut your videos to process in smaller parts so you’re sure, you’ll not lose anything in case of crash or error.
you can export it as a picture sequence, and use simple trick to re create the whole video after that, but it can take a lot of Hard Disc space.
good luck !
Edit : while i think about it, is there an automatic shutdown on your hardisc ? or on external usb ? usually if the disc is used , it mustn’t go into “sleep”, but maybe checking that, in “case”.
One other little thing that happens with drivers and ‘apps’ is when Windows does an update it sometimes reverts back to an older driver. This happens mostly when it’s a major update but it can happen whenever Microsoft decides. There is a way of preventing this(for now) and this has been around for a long time. In the ‘Systems’ control panel under the hardware tab there is a setting for “Device Installation Setting”. Open that and select no and Windows will not replace third party software. That leaves it up to you to make sure your non-Microsoft software/drivers are up to date or not. I’ve had problems in the past with Bluetooth, Video, Printer, Lan and especially Audio driver and software being changed and broken this way. Selecting ‘no’ has stopped this issue for me.
I would suggest anyone thinking about making this change do a search on the internet about this and decide if this is something you might want to try.
Hi Marty, thanks again. No auto shutdowns on either laptop or ext-hard drive. Sleep mode set to off too. I’ll try with shorter samples. Good advice my friend and thanks again
The only way to make certain is if you use drivers and software you’ve downloaded directly from the manufacturer. Nearly all of the other ‘ditto’ downloads sites do not keep their files up to date; the overhead involved in doing so would require a small army of workers to keep tabs on the sources, especially since a lot of places use these “are you human”-type photo recognition apps to keep the bots out.
On the other hand, having a good uninstaller utility is a very worthwhile idea. Especially one that allows you to decide what needs cleaning and what should be allowed to remain.
Bug: Theia models accept -1 to 1 for their 3 parameters, but the GUI can only generate commands that are 0 to 1.
In my testing, I could not get ‘Reduce Noise’ to do anything until I set it to -0.2. That’s impossible with the current GUI.
Hi,
Tried it … As in the previous versions I would expect a nicer processing of one of my videos !
Denoise is not working as nicely as expected !
Can I share / upload this video (240MB) to your team for research work ?
Best
Sylvain
There may be a safer, less drastic way to find out about the battery quality. Check your UPS software. It may have a status indicator for the battery life (APC does), and it will say something like ‘replace your battery’ if the battery has expired.
I’m going to swap out the batteries. I have a few of the same type for servicing other UPS units in this house. I’ll put the removed batteries on a charger and see if they can hold a charge. Usually, there are two batteries in the larger UPS units. Usually only one goes bad, but it is advisable to replace them in pairs and recycle the old ones.
The MVI_0790.MOV was a file that I downloaded and resized for another member of the forum. Note that all the (Exported As) output files have the same date and time in 2011.
AV1 support is already available. If you have a NVIDIA card supporting compute version 8.9, the AV1 (NVIDIA) encoder is available in the GUI.
There is a software encoder available as well, libaom-av1, however it tends to be quite slow except when running in realtime mode. The arguments for it are quite similar to the VP9 encoder, if you want to add an entry for it or use it from the command line.
Probably related to the last bug I listed.
Bug: Theia parameter ‘compression’ makes no visual nor data change at any value. I tested from -1 to 1 at .2 increments and all outputs were identical in all ways.
