PixInsight 1.8.8-3 Released

[sreilly]

Thanks for the update Juan. I seem to have been able to install extra scripts multiple times....? I think I’ve found a bug when in loading scripts can duplicate the script in the menu. I save all my “extra” scripts in a separate folder under My Documents simply called PI Scripts. This way anytime I need to uninstall PI for a new version I can just go to this folder to load all the “outside” scripts in one shot. But seems that I had done this several times as I realized a few were missing and did a Everything search finding them outside my PI Scripts folder and moved them over, then installed but it seems to have found all again. A number of scripts are listed more than once now. Not sure what the appropriate step should be now to correct this. I did notice that when I installed the scripts after say it found XX number of scripts it would go into a very long search which I would finally have to cancel.

[Juan Conejero]

Try installing the latest Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

The required download is 'x64: vc_redist.x64.exe'.

Hopefully this will fix the problem of lacking 'api-ms-win...' files on your Windows 7 SP1 or 8.1.

Thanks again for your job
I'm not an usual participant of your forum, just reader time to time.
But today I have the following problem to start PI:
'no disk into reader, insert disk into reader D: abort retry continue'
I choise continue several times and I see:
'Impossible to start this program because it's missing the file:

api-ms-win-core-heap-i2-1-0.dll

I've tried to reinstall: same
I reinstall the precedent version : no problem

PLEASE if you have any information about that...

Thank you

Philippe LAURENT
FRANCE

[Juan Conejero]

I seem to have been able to install extra scripts multiple times....? I think I’ve found a bug when in loading scripts can duplicate the script in the menu.

This is not a bug, but a consequence of adding several scripts with the same declared menu entry from different locations on your file system. In such case PixInsight will add each script found, irrespective of the menu entries, which can be identical (for example, if you add the same script from different locations).

Do the following to reset your scripts menu:

- From the main menu, select 'Scripts > Feature Scripts'

- On the Feature Scripts dialog, click the 'Disable All' button.

- Click 'Done'

- Exit PixInsight.

- Run PixInsight. The default set of official scripts will now populate the Script menu.

Now you can feature new (unofficial) scripts, but make sure you add each script just once.

[sreilly]

Thanks Juan, I figured it was likely a me issue. I'll look into that folder and make sure only the unzipped scripts are there and then only one copy. I may have the unzipped .js file in the root of that folder and the file again in its respective folder.

[toni]

Hola Juan ,me pasa lo mismo que a los compañeros.....perdida de  api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-I1-2-0.dll.
He instalado el ejecutable VC_redist.x64 pero el problema persiste.Vuelvo de de nuevo a la versión anterior.
Espero que podamos actualizar y no debamos pasarnos a Win 10 por una actualización.
Gracias.

[Felipe]

Hello Juan
Latest Visual C++ installed

... but it's the same
still not resolved sorry

I don't know if it was a good idea but tomorrow I will check at work if I could copy the missing file on the Windows 10 PC
Good idea ??
See you tomorrow
Thanks again

Phil

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Phil,

It seems we have found the component that is causing missing API set file errors on Windows 7SP1/8.1. Please try the following:

- With Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder: "C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin"

- Locate a file with the name: "d3dcompiler_47.dll"

- Rename this file to "d3dcompiler_47.dll.old"

- Run PixInsight

If it's true that we have found the problem, now you should be able to execute PixInsight on your machine. Note that this does not mean that we support Windows 7 and 8.1 again. But at least you should be able to run version 1.8.8-3 the same way as 1.8.8-2.

If this fixes the problem, we'll release new installation files with an older version of the d3dcompiler_47.dll file.

[Freewheelin]

Hello: i just installed Pixinsight 1.8.8.3 on a windows 7 x64 desktop, and on a Windows 8.1 laptop with a Nvidia GeForce GT 6300. When I start PI on both machines I get The program can't start because
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-I1-2-0.dll is missing from your
computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem..
On the Windows 7 desktop I close all the errors and the program starts. On the windows 8.1 laptop I close the errors and PI starts with a black screen.

I hope there will be a solution for this problem soon.
Freewheelin.

[jwaters125]

Juan - I made the change you mentioned above.  I am up and running - 1.8.8-3.  I want to thank you and your team for taking the time to look into this problem on an 'unsupported operating system'.  I understand the limited resources you have and the decision not to support Win 7.

In a previous post I mentioned that I was upgrading to Win 10 Home.  I replaced the existing SSD in my laptop, installed Win 10 with all the updates and got the current PI release up and running.  I found that there are still QHY device driver problems on 2 products so I stepped back to Win 7 Pro.  I am grateful that you found a work-around.  I now need to decide what to do about the QHY device driver problems...  I do plan to permanently migrate to Win 10 in the next 2 to 3 months. 

Looking forward to the 1.8.9 release.

Again - thank you for this work around.

EDIT - I forgot to mention that I upgraded to Visual C++ for Visual Studio earlier today - Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 per your earlier post.

[Freewheelin]

Juan - I made the change you mentioned above.  I also tried using an older version of d3dcompiler_47.dll (File Version: 10.0.17134.12) to see if Pixinsight would load and it loaded with no problem. I'm not sure if PI is using this dll file, but there were no errors when starting.

Freewheelin

[jwaters125]

Freewheelin - I renamed d3dcompiler_47.dll.old back to the original name and the problems return.

[Freewheelin]

I left d3dcompiler_47.dll as d3dcompiler_47.dll.old and downloaded an older version and copied it to the folder to see if PI would load and it did.

[jwaters125]

Where did you find the older version?  From Microsoft?

[Enzo De Bernardini]

Juan, thank you for all the excellent work!, always of the highest quality. Everything working perfect here (Win 10 64x)

Best regards,

Enzo.

[Freewheelin]

No. Not from Microsoft. But an x64 Microsoft for redistribution version from a website that has dll files for download. Not sure what site.