Speeding up Pixinsight Processes

[SyedT]

Hi all,

I previously posted about using this guide https://darkskies.space/pixinsight-starnet-cuda/ to try and speed up Starnet, but then have realised that there's an added bonus of it speeding up Pixinsight overall. It only works with NVIDIA GPUs, but has cut down Starnet's star removal time from 3 minutes to 30 seconds as an example. If you've got an NVIDIA card with CUDA compatibility, I'd definitely recommend this!

[Budgie1]

Wow, that makes a difference! 

I normally go away and make a cuppa while Starnet is running but I followed the instructions, ran Starnet again and it took about 26 seconds (me counting so may not be that accurate ).

On thing not mentioned in the link is that you have to sign up to the NVIDIA Developer Program before you can download the cuDNN zip file. Not a biggie but worth knowing beforehand.

Well worth the effort though. 👍