New Video Card = Photoscan Crashing?

[FrostBite]

 I recently bought a GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edtion 11GB Video Card - 1721/1607 MHz.
Before I had a Geforce 570, so I was hoping it would help with larger amounts of pictures in Photoscan.

The problem is that Photoscan will unexpectedly crash in the middle of different processes. I started a new project and it crashed while generating the dense cloud. And then I opened an existing project that already had the dense cloud created, but Photoscan crashed when I was classifying the ground points.

In other software, such as Adobe Premiere, it seems to be working fine. So far I'm having too much trouble for the money I put into this video card.

Does anyone have any suggestions?? I did check in 'Preferences' and my video card is selected there.

[cioro]

I had a similar problem after installing an Asus 1080Ti videocard. A clean windows install will eliminate the most of crashes.

[Mohammed]

There's some problem in CUDA i guess, so at the moment you can sidable the GPU Cuda from the preferences menu.

[BobvdMeij]

What version of Photoscan are you using, what are your processing parameters and what are the dataset's characteristics in terms of #images and image size?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

For those you has issues during depth maps generation on NVIDIA cards using CUDA on Windows, I can suggest to check pre-release version of PhotoScan 1.3.2:

Professional: http://download.agisoft.com/photoscan-pro_1_3_2_x64.msi
Standard: http://download.agisoft.com/photoscan_1_3_2_x64.msi

[FrostBite]

There's some problem in CUDA i guess, so at the moment you can sidable the GPU Cuda from the preferences menu.

Ok thanks I'll check this out. What do you mean with "you can sidable"?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello FrostBite,

I think it should be "disable".

[FrostBite]

 That's how I understood it too. I wasn't sure though. If I uncheck the video card then would Photoscan utilize it still??

I just tried it anyways while it was processing the dense cloud. I watched the console and it didn't use the GPU at all. Just CPU the whole time...

Not sure how thats supposed to be a viable solution.

[FrostBite]

 I have still been getting crashes. Mostly from building the dense cloud and sometimes even from aligning photos. I did a clean Windows install and tried again. Dense cloud is still crashing.

Does anyone know what I could do? I have updated Photoscan, drivers and now Windows.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello FrostBite,

Have you submitted the crash reports?

At which stage the crashes happen - depth maps calculation or depth maps filtering?

[FrostBite]

 Yes I have submitted report I believe. Seems like it crashes right when PhotoScan starts filtering depth maps. Here's the last few lines of the log...

2017-05-25 01:51:55 [GPU] estimating 878x850x128 disparity using 878x850x8u tiles
2017-05-25 01:51:56 timings: rectify: 0.016 disparity: 0.058 borders: 0.009 filter: 0.023 fill: 0
2017-05-25 01:51:56 [GPU] estimating 837x848x128 disparity using 837x848x8u tiles
2017-05-25 01:51:56 timings: rectify: 0.031 disparity: 0.057 borders: 0.007 filter: 0.019 fill: 0
2017-05-25 01:51:56 [GPU] estimating 573x876x128 disparity using 573x876x8u tiles
2017-05-25 01:51:56 timings: rectify: 0.016 disparity: 0.045 borders: 0.005 filter: 0.015 fill: 0
2017-05-25 01:51:56 [GPU] estimating 676x891x96 disparity using 676x891x8u tiles
2017-05-25 01:51:56 timings: rectify: 0.012 disparity: 0.04 borders: 0.007 filter: 0.015 fill: 0
2017-05-25 01:51:56 [GPU] estimating 674x890x96 disparity using 674x890x8u tiles
2017-05-25 01:51:56 timings: rectify: 0.014 disparity: 0.039 borders: 0.006 filter: 0.016 fill: 0
2017-05-25 01:51:56
2017-05-25 01:51:56 Depth reconstruction devices performance:
2017-05-25 01:51:56  - 100%    done by GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
2017-05-25 01:51:56 Total time: 245.182 seconds
2017-05-25 01:51:56
2017-05-25 01:51:57 Generating dense point cloud...
2017-05-25 01:52:00 selected 241 cameras in 2.991 sec
2017-05-25 01:52:00 working volume: 3169x2938x860
2017-05-25 01:52:00 tiles: 1x1x1
2017-05-25 01:52:00 selected 241 cameras in 0.001 sec
2017-05-25 01:52:00 preloading data... done in 3.294 sec
2017-05-25 01:52:03 filtering depth maps...

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello FrostBite,

I can't find any recent crash reports with similar log content, could you please re-send it, if the problem can be reproduced.

Have you also noticed the memory consumption of the operation, was it far beyond the RAM limit or all the memory has been used?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

If you have any external tablet device connected to the computer, I can suggest to disconnect it temporarily and uninstall the related drivers and then check, if there are any similar crashes in PhotoScan.

[FrostBite]

Hey Alexy,

I'm not sure what you mean by external tablet. I do have external harddrive connected by USB. That's pretty much it.

I did reinstall my old video card (Geforce 560) and I had no problems with the same project I was working on. Everything worked completely fine, so I know for sure now its the new video card (Geforce 1080ti) or the drivers (?) that are causing the crashes.

Does anyone have some kind of solution for this? I'm running Windows 10, and I WAS using the 1080ti with updated drivers. Also was using the updated Photoscan.

It's a pity I can't use my new video card... it was expensive!