GigE camera - grab image with black bars

Hi everyboby,
I am using Ni vision acquisition to grab images from a GigE camera.
I recieve images just as I trigger the camera - so fare so good.
Every other picture shows some black bars.
Does anyone has an idea what it could be?
It's not the hardware, the camera works perfect with the SDk form the manufacturer.
Thanx for any help
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Sounds like an incomplete frame, this could be caused by missing packets.  To prevent missing packets during acquisition you can do two key things: ensure the packet size configured on the camera does not exceed what the network adapter can handle, and ensure that the bandwidth of image data being output by the camera does not saturate interface bandwidth.  I would lower camera packet size to 1500 initially to determine if the packet size  is the cause of the problem.  You can throttle how much data the camera can send by manipulating the interpacket delay, some manufacturers have a very handy feature called StreamBytesPerSecond.  Depending on which mechanism you can use, increase interpacket delay or reduce StreamBytesPerSecond.

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