Error allocating and Failure to create dng errors
Posted: 25.10.2020 23:16
Windows 10 Pro (current), Helicon Focus 7.6.5, 32GB memory, 970 GTX graphics...
CURRENTLY, the hardware acceleration is turned OFF - I presume the "hardware acceleration is using the graphics card? I ran the benchmark the other day and found (my numbers aren't exact as I'm going from memory) it took about 47 seconds WITHOUT hardware acceleration and 130+ with it. So, I took at small stack of 23 images and ran it 3 ways: Method B, 23 images, then reran method B for a subset of 14 images, then for a subset of 13.
Acceleration ON Acceleration OFF
23 108 51
14 36 11
13 34 9
so I just left the hardware acceleration off...
BUT, in my "normal" environment with Lightroom and Photoshop open I frequently get errors like:
Failed to create dng file from raw using adobe dng converter
Compilation time 29.994
What on the system is causing Helicon Focus to throw this error?
And, I periodically get errors of this type, sometimes just when doing a second render on a small subset of the original image set:
Error allocating 180.556 megabytes
Compilation time 2.804
Error allocating 45.1416 megabytes
Compilation time 0.705
Recently, it created the output - the render succeeded, but it failed attempting to save a JPEG.
Error allocating 14.8547 megabytes
With the 19 image test stack, it reliably throws the 180.556 megabyte error when I attempt the second render, this time with only 4 images.
I found an older topic on this and the "solution" was to turn off hardware acceleration and reduce memory cache limit. As I said above, the hardware acceleration is OFF, and I've tried memory cache limits as high as 90% and as low as 30% (reducing it in 10% increments) with no apparent change - do I reduce the memory cache limit even further? Will there be an adverse impact on performance if I do so?
Watching the resource monitor on the system shows NO issues with the graphics card - it's about 3-10% busy and total memory usage is less than 2GB. CPU runs 80-90%, and total memory usage (including Lightroom, Photoshop and the other things running in the background, never exceeds 27GB of the 32 available (not including the 24GB paging file also available)...
CURRENTLY, the hardware acceleration is turned OFF - I presume the "hardware acceleration is using the graphics card? I ran the benchmark the other day and found (my numbers aren't exact as I'm going from memory) it took about 47 seconds WITHOUT hardware acceleration and 130+ with it. So, I took at small stack of 23 images and ran it 3 ways: Method B, 23 images, then reran method B for a subset of 14 images, then for a subset of 13.
Acceleration ON Acceleration OFF
23 108 51
14 36 11
13 34 9
so I just left the hardware acceleration off...
BUT, in my "normal" environment with Lightroom and Photoshop open I frequently get errors like:
Failed to create dng file from raw using adobe dng converter
Compilation time 29.994
What on the system is causing Helicon Focus to throw this error?
And, I periodically get errors of this type, sometimes just when doing a second render on a small subset of the original image set:
Error allocating 180.556 megabytes
Compilation time 2.804
Error allocating 45.1416 megabytes
Compilation time 0.705
Recently, it created the output - the render succeeded, but it failed attempting to save a JPEG.
Error allocating 14.8547 megabytes
With the 19 image test stack, it reliably throws the 180.556 megabyte error when I attempt the second render, this time with only 4 images.
I found an older topic on this and the "solution" was to turn off hardware acceleration and reduce memory cache limit. As I said above, the hardware acceleration is OFF, and I've tried memory cache limits as high as 90% and as low as 30% (reducing it in 10% increments) with no apparent change - do I reduce the memory cache limit even further? Will there be an adverse impact on performance if I do so?
Watching the resource monitor on the system shows NO issues with the graphics card - it's about 3-10% busy and total memory usage is less than 2GB. CPU runs 80-90%, and total memory usage (including Lightroom, Photoshop and the other things running in the background, never exceeds 27GB of the 32 available (not including the 24GB paging file also available)...