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.
Hi There,
I stumbled across your app and I'm giving the trial a whirl. However, I'm having a problem. APP starts as standard, using 2gb of RAM. Which is definitely not enough! I have 40gb installed in machine, so I'd like to set it to say 30gb, to give myself plenty of head room. However, whenever I go to the CFG button, and drop down to more ram, when I click ok, it's still set to 2gb.
I could really use some help 🙂
Ok, 86 that. You need to restart the program it seems. Sorted 🙂
I did the exact same thing when I downloaded it last night. Might need a little note in the RAM drop-down box that says restart is required for change to take effect.
Hello,
Sorry for digging out old thread but I have same issue. Moreover after I click on "CFG" menu nothing happen so I can't assign more RAM to APP.
Regards,
Raf2020
@raf2020 When you click the CFG button, you are supposed to get a popup. Are you trying to say you don't get one?
Wouter
@raf2020 When you click the CFG button, you are supposed to get a popup. Are you trying to say you don't get one?
Wouter
Exactly. When I click for example on License menu - popup appear. On CFG nothing happens.
Strange. Which version of APP are you using? And which operating system are you on?
Strange. Which version of APP are you using? And which operating system are you on?
Astro Pixel Processor 1.082 Windows 64bit (trial) on W10 Pro with all latest patches (20H2).
I guess you did restart APP right, as that is required for the setting to take effect?
I guess you did restart APP right, as that is required for the setting to take effect?
There was no need to restart it because I haven't changed nothing as popup with option to assign more ram is not appearing. But yes - I have tried pc/app restart as troubleshooting step.
Ah right, it's not appearing entirely. We've notified Mabula.
Ah right, it's not appearing entirely. We've notified Mabula.
Thank you. As APP seems to be Java based so I have tried to install newest Java environment but same issue.
@raf2020 APP comes with its own Java runtime environment so the one you installed doesn't get used by APP.
Thanks. Is there a possibility to adjust this value somewhere in config file or in registry until problem will be diagnosed and fixed?
@raf2020 Unfortunately there is no supported way of doing this.
-Xmx10g parameter in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\AstroPixelProcessor\appAstroPixelProcessor.cfg is responsible for that, where 10 is amount of assigned RAM memory.
Hi @raf2020,
The CFG button will not work if you are starting the JAR by yourself using a java runtime of your own. APP is not developed to work like that for good reason.
You need to start APP with the operating system executable. We don't want you to start the jar yourself.
If you start APP properly, you can then use the CFG button and adjust the amount of memory 😉
APP is shiped with it's own java runtime, so the java installation on the operating system will not have any effect at all on how APP works. It is running in the java runtime which is included in the installer together with it's own memory configuration and java runtime settings.
Mabula
Hi @raf2020,
The CFG button will not work if you are starting the JAR by yourself using a java runtime of your own. APP is not developed to work like that for good reason.
You need to start APP with the operating system executable. We don't want you to start the jar yourself.
If you start APP properly, you can then use the CFG button and adjust the amount of memory 😉
APP is shiped with it's own java runtime, so the java installation on the operating system will not have any effect at all on how APP works. It is running in the java runtime which is included in the installer together with it's own memory configuration and java runtime settings.
Mabula
Thank you Mabula for your answer,
I am running app in standard way through C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\AstroPixelProcessor\AstroPixelProcessor.exe and still CFG menu is not opening. However after I found that this can be adjusted in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\AstroPixelProcessor\appAstroPixelProcessor.cfg by -Xmx10g parameter I don't mind this no more.
I also have noticed a few random app crushes during stacking process. APP just closed itself without any pop up error message but it should be included in logs. If it will happen again I will provide logs for diagnose purpose.
In general I am planing to buy license after trial period as I am finding APP is much more better than DSS if data isn't any good quality.
Regards,
Raf
I have the same problem as Raf 2020. The CFG button does not work. The operating system is Win 10 Home 20 H2 and the program is Astro Pixel Processor 1.082 Windows 64 bit.
Do you indeed start APP when installed from the applications folder on your system and not the jar file itself? It's a weird problem that only sporadically happens apparently.
Sorry, I was not attentive. I reinstalled the APP in the c:\AstroPixelProcessor folder and it worked!
No problem, glad it worked!
