Both Vision Assistant and Vision Builder AI (which one are you using?) are both 32-bit applications for now, meaning they don't have access to the entire 24 GB available on your machine.
Both Vision Builder AI 2009 SP1 and Vision Assistant 2009 are unfortunately not Large Address Aware, meaning that on a 64-bit OS they will only have access to 2GB of memory. And out of that, to be able to work properly, they need to be able to allocated 2 or 3 times the size of your image in contiguous memory, which is likely what is failing on your system.
I am passing the information to our managers so we consider the possibility in the future to eventually release 64-bit version of the software.
In the meantime, here are some things you can try.
- Vision Assistant 2010 (part of Vision Development Module 2010), that has just released, is still a 32-bit application, but is Large Address Aware, giving you access to 4GB of memory on Windows 7 64-bit. You can download the evaluation and give it a try and see if it can handle it.
- The other solution is to work with a much smaller image, that Vision Assistant or VBAI can handle, to prototype your algorithm, and migrate the code to either LabVIEW 2009 64-bit or LabVIEW 2010 64-bit with Vision Development Module 2009 or 2010 that supports 64-bit LabVIEW.
Both these platforms should be able to handle the size of images you're dealing with.
Sorry there is no better solution than that at this point.
-Christophe
