Nikon Capture

What works

Seemingly almost everything works with Nikon Capture NX-D version 1.5.2.

My test environment:

Gentoo 64 Bit Install.
=app-emulation/wine-gecko-2.47-r1 (likely not needed)
=app-emulation/wine-mono-4.8.1
=app-emulation/wine-vanilla-4.6-r1

Nikon Capture NX-D version 1.5.2

It is extremely likely,  Nikon Capture NX-D will work with older  Wine 3 and 4 versions after the following workarounds are employed.

What does not

1) The embedded Nikon Capture NX-D install package Microsoft dotNET 4.5.1 install, overall install hangs at this point.

2) The Nikon Capture NX-D install seems to fail to create and install the c:/windows/system32/spool/drivers/color/sRGB Color Space Profile.icm file/folder.

3) The Nikon Capture NX-D seems to be compiled with optimizations, maybe causing the program to run too fast and creating a divide by zero condition.

Workarounds

1) Must manually install the Microsoft (offline for all OSes) dotNET 4.5.1, as the embedded Microsoft dotNet 4.5.1 provided by the Nikon Capture NX-D package install hangs during install.

$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine64" wine64 NDP451-KB2858728-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe

2) From a good Windows install of Nikon Capture NX-D, must copy over and/or create the c:/windows/system32/spool/drivers/color/sRGB Color Space Profile.icm file/folder to the ".wine64/c:/windows/system32/spool/drivers/color".

3) Nikon Capture NX-D seems to be compiled with optimizations, maybe causing the program to run too fast and creating a divide by zero condition within Asteriod1.dll and can likely be slowed down or hacked around by enabling debugging options, and further sending stdout to a temporary file to de-clutter the terminal.

$ WINEDEBUG=warn+dll,+loaddl,+msgbox WINEDLLOVERRIDES='ddraw.dll=n,b' WINEPREFIX='$HOME/.wine64' strace -s 120 wine64 $HOME/.wine64/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files/Nikon/Capture\ NX-D/Module/CaptureNX-D.exe > /tmp/debug.log 2>&1

(Another possibility with the divide by zero condition, the Nikon Capture NX-D initial folder displayed is "users/roger/My Pictures/" folder for which is a symlink under the Wine folder to your $HOME/$USER/My Pictures folder.  If you have files within this folder, they maybe causing problems with Nikon Capture NX-D first run.  As a precaution, I moved all upper level files within this folder into subfolders. Users experiencing this problem may want to file a bug report.)

4) The overrides msvcp120 msvcr120 "native,builtin", mainly the runtime  msvcr120 have been stated to help, but I'm not seeing that they are at all needed.  To try:

$ WINEPREFIX='/home/roger/.wine64'  winecfg

What was not tested

A lot of functions of the application were not tested (and will soon be tested here), but so far seemingly everything appears to work with only some very minor glitches for which do not seem to be impeding any of the application's functions/operations.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

I've tried several important functions, such as converting a Nikon NEF raw image file to JPEG, and experienced absolutely no problems.

This looks extremely promising and I wouldn't be surprised to see all other application functions functioning as expected.

If users experience problems with installing/running the Nikon Capture NX-D program, Nikon View NX2 program is seemingly much easier and more forgiving when installing/running.  The Nikon View NX2 program can export Nikon NEF raw images to JPEG and/or make other minor modifications to image files.  (I do believe the Nikon View NX2 install package provides both 32bit and 64bit versions, unlike the Nikon Capture NX-D program only providing a 64 bit version.