New AI Gigapixel update 1-24-2019

russelltarpley (Russell) 2019-01-27 00:14:45 UTC #62

We reverted the labels for the PR release. The updated ones seemed more confusing to some.

The updater in our stand alone products only runs once a day. When it wakes up and checks in it will prompt. Best bet, is to go in the help menu and choose check for updates in the application.

plugsnpixels (plugsnpixels) 2019-01-27 00:53:14 UTC #63

Thanks Russell. To be more clear, I checked manually using the Help menu after reading about the update on a forum, and still couldn't invoke it. That's why I did the reinstall, which successfully provided the latest version.

andymagee-52287 (andymagee-52287) 2019-01-27 01:48:31 UTC #64

Now you have me even more confused about what the labels are supposed be. Should it be showing as Medium or Light?

This is turning into a classic case of UI "improvements" that alienate the user base because the benefit of the change is neither obvious or intuitive.

AiDon (Don) 2019-01-27 02:59:19 UTC #65

If you read what he said, the labels were reverted to None/Low/High as in the previous version. Therefore they aren't "UI "improvements" that alienate the user base because the benefit of the change is neither obvious or intuitive.", because they are now the same as v2.1.1

andymagee-52287 (andymagee-52287) 2019-01-27 03:42:08 UTC #66

Actually, he never said it as clearly and directly as you just did. They keep assuming that we know what they mean, the same way they know what they mean because they've been working on it and were intimately involved with the decisions they've been making. We're just the poor dumb users trying to keep up with the unexplained surprises being dropped on us...

For example hiding the CPU option because most people don't use it was probably a wise thing to do, but pointing out where it ended up more clearly would have been the considerate thing to do since it no longer says CPU anywhere, and you might search for a long time before you stumble across where it ended up with a completely new description that only mentions GPU.

Box_Brownie (Box Brownie) 2019-02-20 01:38:48 UTC #67

Thanks Artisan-West for the insight especially the 4GB card doing well...............my current card is 2GB, hence using CPU not GPU. In regard to tebel53 saying 8GB I see that that is noted on laptop/mobile devices

As for the x0.5 the reason I remarked about downsizing i.e. it is not a 50% increase was that when imported and the button selected the X px by Y px dimensions shown on the GUI show half size image of the source size.

PS in regard to the graphics card ~ my system is not the newest and the PCI slots are v2 compliant. The one thing I have noted is that a lot of newer cards are PCI powered so could draw more power than the motherboard might be able to handle. A far as I recall my PSU is either a 750 or 850W one?

I now have an nVidia 1050Ti 4GB to hand but not yet installed. I look forward to seeing what sort of improvements in processing times I can see using the GPU processing rather than CPU.

PS sorry for the delay in replying but as a new member I had to wait for my 'access' to be fully approved

Artisan-West (Artisan-West) 2019-02-20 02:14:46 UTC #68

You should see a great improvement in speed using the GPU. Also, the latest Gigapixel is improved in many ways including a preview so make sure you update it.