Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
As the topic says, I'm no longer able to start APP. 🙄Â
I have restarted the PC, uninstalled and reinstalled APP without any luck. I'm running Win 10 and 2.0.0-beta6.
All other programs (that I have tried) starts as normal.
Does anybody have any idea to what is going on?
That is a new one for us, what are you seeing, no UI at all or maybe just a window?
I see nothing, absolutely nothing. 😯Â
The Windows "wait circle" flashes for a split second, then nothing.
I watched the task manager when I tried to start it. Activity increases by 0,5% for a second, but no new process are created.
I don't know what to try from here.Â
Edit: I forgot to mention that when I reinstalled APP it started as it normally do when installing it. But when I shut it down and tried to restart, it acted like described above.
Do you by any chance have the older installation on your machine as well? We're wondering if there is, sometimes, something going on in the registry of Windows.
Hi,
I vaguely recall having a problem similar to this but I was able to start APP by directly clicking on the APP .exe file, which in my case is in \Windows\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\AstroPixelProcessor.
I assumed the path set up on the short cuts had somehow got corrupted. Setting up a new short cut icon solved the issue.
Mike
There are some really strange things (to me at least) going on:
Looking in Windows settings, Apps , beta 6 is installed.
But when looking at the exe file properties, beta 4 is installed.
When removing the app (beta 6) and checking the directory, all the files are still there, including the exe file (beta 4) and every other file. It is not removed at all. It is also still present in the Start menu.
So I intend to remove everything manually and do a "clean" install of APP. I'm not competent to do anything to the registry settings. That is a black box to me.
If this don't work, I'll check the bin if I have an older version, although it seems like it is an older version being used.
@mestutters I found it where you said it would be, but unfortunately that did not help. Thanks anyway.
So I did, and the important part, it now works!
But there was quite a few changes happening in the file structure/locations that did not happen during an upgrade from beta 4 to 6.
APP is no longer under Aries production Start menu, but on top level as an icon.
C:\Windows\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\AstroPixelProcessor is no longer a valid path. Files are now located under
C:\Users\Helge\AppData\Local\Programs\astropixelprocessor
Maybe you should have a closer look at the installation and uninstall files?Â
So we think something must have gone wrong while you uninstalled beta 4 (or you didn't actually uninstall it first), that may have caused this as beta6 has changed the way how we install indeed. This should now be a thing of the past though as the new installer is better anyway.
