Dear Experts,

We're now running the pRF model on the new lab Macbook (Mojave - we bought an older version).
Everything seems to work. We do mrInit, alignment, averaging over scans, defining the gray 3 window, transforming from inplane to gray (trilinear interpolation) and defining the stimulus parameters. But when we then run the pRF in its simplest form, we get the following warning (plus other messages for context) in 2 of 3 subjects:

[niftiApplyXform:] The transform does not need to be applied. Returning nifti without change.
Done xforming tSeries.
Updated stored stimulus parameters in dataTYPES.
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus size: 8.00deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Scan 1:HRF type: [two gammas (spm style)]; parameters: [ 5.40 5.20 10.80 7.35 0.35]. (01-Sep-2020 16:42:53)
[rmDefineParameters]:PRF size spacing: from 0.20 to 8.00 deg (24).
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus sample size: 0.16 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Minimimal pRF position spacing in triangular grid: 0.47 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Number of [x,y,s] models for grid search: 68406.
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images: /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Stimuli/stimulus_images_20161010T142525.mat...
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images for scan 1...
[makeStimFromScan]: Filtering images...
[makeStimFromScan]: Downsampling images to stimulus grid...
[makeStimFromScan]: Averaging images within a TR...
[makeStimFromScan]: Done.
Updated stored stimulus parameters in dataTYPES.
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus size: 8.00deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Scan 1:HRF type: [two gammas (spm style)]; parameters: [ 5.40 5.20 10.80 7.35 0.35]. (01-Sep-2020 16:43:35)
[rmDefineParameters]:PRF size spacing: from 0.20 to 8.00 deg (24).
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus sample size: 0.16 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Minimimal pRF position spacing in triangular grid: 0.47 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Number of [x,y,s] models for grid search: 68406.
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images: /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Stimuli/stimulus_images_20161010T142525.mat...
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images for scan 1...
[makeStimFromScan]: Filtering images...
[makeStimFromScan]: Downsampling images to stimulus grid...
[makeStimFromScan]: Averaging images within a TR...
[makeStimFromScan]: Done.
[reserveToolbox]:optimization toolbox reserved.
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus size: 8.00deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Scan 1:HRF type: [two gammas (spm style)]; parameters: [ 5.40 5.20 10.80 7.35 0.35]. (01-Sep-2020 16:43:45)
[rmDefineParameters]:PRF size spacing: from 0.20 to 8.00 deg (24).
[rmDefineParameters]:Stimulus sample size: 0.16 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Minimimal pRF position spacing in triangular grid: 0.47 deg.
[rmDefineParameters]:Number of [x,y,s] models for grid search: 68406.
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images: /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Stimuli/stimulus_images_20161010T142525.mat...
[makeStimFromScan]: Loading images for scan 1...
[makeStimFromScan]: Filtering images...
[makeStimFromScan]: Downsampling images to stimulus grid...
[makeStimFromScan]: Averaging images within a TR...
[makeStimFromScan]: Done.
[rmMain]:Two stage coarse-to-fine fit.
[rmGridFit]:Making 68406 model samples:..........Done[0 min]. (01-Sep-2020 16:43:59)
[dhkGraySmooth]:Smoothing data:...Done[0.1min].
[rmMakeTrends]: Removing 7 trends from combined data.
[rmGridFit]: Decimating data:...
[rmGridFit]:Number of voxels: 29306.
[rmGridFit_oneGaussian]:Estimated processing time: 9 minutes. (01-Sep-2020 16:45:12)
[rmGridFit_oneGaussian]:Grid (x,y,sigma) fit:..........Done[10 minutes]. (01-Sep-2020 16:54:07)
[rmSave]:Saved /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Gray/Averages_all_3motcomp/retModel-20200901-164345-gFit.mat.
[reserveToolbox]:optimization toolbox reserved.
[rmMakeTrends]: Removing 7 trends from combined data.
[rmSearchFit]:Processing voxels with variance explained >= 0.10
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Estimated processing time: 80703 voxels: 4 hours.
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Nonlinear optimization (x,y,sigma):......
_> In backsolveSys
In solveKKTsystem
In computeTrialStep
In barrier
In fmincon (line 798)
In rmSearchFit_oneGaussian (line 73)
In rmSearchFit (line 362)
In rmMain (line 128)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled. Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 1.238763e-16.

In backsolveSys
In solveKKTsystem
In computeTrialStep
In barrier
In fmincon (line 798)
In rmSearchFit_oneGaussian (line 73)
In rmSearchFit (line 362)
In rmMain (line 128)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled. Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 5.577999e-17.
In backsolveSys
In solveKKTsystem
In computeTrialStep
In barrier
In fmincon (line 798)
In rmSearchFit_oneGaussian (line 73)
In rmSearchFit (line 362)
In rmMain (line 128)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled. Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 5.577999e-17.
In backsolveSys
In solveKKTsystem
In computeTrialStep
In barrier
In fmincon (line 798)
In rmSearchFit_oneGaussian (line 73)
In rmSearchFit (line 362)
In rmMain (line 128)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled. Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 1.919709e-16.
In backsolveSys
In solveKKTsystem
In computeTrialStep
In barrier
In fmincon (line 798)
In rmSearchFit_oneGaussian (line 73)
In rmSearchFit (line 362)
In rmMain (line 128)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled. Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 1.919709e-16._
....Done [5 hours].
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Removed negative fits: 1129 (1.4%).
[rmSave]:Saved /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Gray/Averages_all_3motcomp/retModel-20200901-164345-sFit.mat.
[reserveToolbox]:optimization toolbox reserved.
[rmMakeTrends]: Removing 7 trends from combined data.
[rmSearchFit]:Processing voxels with variance explained >= 0.00
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Estimated processing time: 116577 voxels: 2 minutes.
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Nonlinear optimization (x,y,sigma):..........Done [2 minutes].
[rmSearchFit_oneGaussian]:Removed negative fits: 5398 (4.6%).
[rmSave]:Saved /Users/PC/Documents/30_8_2020/XXX/XXX_PC_newVistaSoft/Gray/Averages_all_3motcomp/retModel-20200901-164345-fFit.mat.

For further context, we run with a version of vistasoft that was downloaded on 11 May 2020. When we try to run with the version we downloaded on 6 October 2019, we don't get the error.

Can someone here help us interpret the Warning? Is it problematic or can we proceed?