Issue Installing StarXterminator

drprs8181

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I installed PI 1.8.9-1 on a new Win11 machine successfully. Then when trying to install StarXterminator (and NoiseXterminator) I followed the listed steps updating for the repository and on relaunch of the PI application I get a pop up confirmation message that all updates were successful. But this string appears in the process console window under the StarXterminator module install list and there's no application icon in the processes list that I can find. I've tried the instructions for re-installing (Delete the "updates.xri" file from PixInsight's main application directory) and relaunch. Still getting same error. Z Suite and GenHypStretch seemed to install just fine. Welcome any thoughts, or should I uninstall the entire application and restart from scratch? StarX and NoiseX not compatible with Win11?




C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/StarXTerminator-pxm.dll

<* failed *>

*** PCL Win32 System Exception: At address 00007FFF9719466C with exception code C0000005 :

Access violation: invalid memory read operation at address 0000000000000000



*** Backtrace Information ***

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0: RtlUserThreadStart in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0x99704830

1: _NLG_Return2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C901150

2: _NLG_Return2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C901150

3: _NLG_Return2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C901150

4: _NLG_Return2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C901150

5: _CxxFrameHandler4 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C904030

6: _chkstk in module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll at address: 0x997A81D0

7: RtlRestoreContext in module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll at address: 0x99735160

8: RtlRaiseException in module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll at address: 0x99732B70

9: RaiseException in module: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll at address: 0x97194600

10: _NLG_Return2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll at address: 0x8C901150

11: RtlCaptureContext2 in module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll at address: 0x997A76C0

12: RtlCaptureContext2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0x997A76C0

13: RtlCaptureContext2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0x997A76C0

14: RtlCaptureContext2 in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0x997A76C0

15: InitializePixInsightModule in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0xB4B8E6B0

16: InitializePixInsightModule in module: C:\Program Files\PixInsight\bin\PixInsight.exe at address: 0xB4B8E6B0

17: BaseThreadInitThunk in module: C:\Windows\System32\KERNEL32.DLL at address: 0x987454D0

18: RtlUserThreadStart in module: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll at address: 0x99704830

================================================================================

* Scripting resources updated.

55 of 56 module(s) installed.



Running initialization scripts...



Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/etc/init.pjsr/pjsr-core-defs.js





Running startup scripts...



Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/etc/startup/startup.scp
 
For what it's worth, I had the same issue. I exchanged around 20 emails with Russ. Windows update installed a bios update and after a reboot it worked for me. No need to downgrade PI.

It also works with the GPU tensorflow dll, so it's real fast
 
Had a similar issue: StarXTerminator vanished from process list without notice (maybe after a PI restart ?)
The procedure "Delete the "updates.xri" file from PixInsight's main application directory" did not solve the problem.
Only after additionally deleting the StarXTerminator files/directory and following the "delete updates.xri" procedure the (re)installation went well.

This is the file/directory list:
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/StarXTerminator-pxm.dll
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/library/StarXTerminator.11.pb
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/library/StarXTerminator.lite.11.pb
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/library/StarXTerminator.lite.nonoise.11.pb
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/rsc/icons/module/StarXTerminator
C:/Program Files/PixInsight/rsc/icons/module/StarXTerminator/StarXTerminator.svg

(Did not check whether deleting only the dll-file fixes the issue.)
 
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