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I’m using the newest release of Studio 4.5 (64 bit, Windows).  That is to say, I’m experimenting with it.  The problem is the start-up time. I.e. I double-click on the icon, then wait . . . . I just now timed it: over two minutes before it starts to do anything!  I have no problem at all with the version of Studio 4 I normally use - it starts right up.  I’d like to experiment with Studio 4.5 . . . do I have something set wrong or something?  PS I’m working on a regular desktop computer, recently up-graded etc etc (i.e. not a tiny laptop or something).
Thoughts please?

I am using Win 7 64 bit, on an i7 machine, and DS starts in about 15 seconds, including loading the grey default Genesis figure into the viewport.  That is when I start DS4.5 for the first time, later it takes about 12 seconds since it has been cahed I presume.

There is something wrong with how your version works.  I am using 4.5.1.6 which is the latest version.  I have the default Genesis figure set to load at startup. 

Can you see how long it takes to load after the first time, and without the Genesis default character loading?
Are you running as Admin?  Do you have anti-virus software running, because that is the only thing that I can think of that would slow it down so dramitically?

I agree, Full boot to loaded Genesis on my i7 is about 10 sec’s.

One thing I’ve noticed with mine is that if I close out the app with my Library window open and it is inside my huge Poser runtime, the startup time takes a good long while the next time I open the app. But, if I end my session in a native DS runtime, the next startup is no problem and is quite fast. May be something similar going on for your case.

So I’m not the only one…and no, my problem is NOT anything with the Library…

I’ve also determined that my particular problem is rare to unique (at the moment, I’m pushing rare).

I have a 5 minute minimum start up (5 to 7 minutes)...and I’ve determined it is something with QtGui4.dll.  My advice…make sure that everything that QtGUI4 needs is up to date…that means Windows, if you are on a Windows system, especially the vcrun files (it seems to have been built for the latest vcrun2010 update), video card drivers (it can use OpenGL to draw the UI), audio drivers (yes, QtGui has an audio component to it) and motherboard drivers.

Thanks for the helpful replies.  After reading them I went into “preferences,” de-selected the blank file I had been using on start-up, and tried everything again.  Start-up time went from 2 minutes to ten seconds. Problem solved . . . weird. (I.e. “weird” since this file causes no trouble at all when I use it with Studio 4.)

I am glad that worked for you, at least one mystery solved

24 hrs or so later . . . unfortunately that was really NOT a fix.  Sometimes DAZ 4.5 starts up in 10 sec or so, sometimes it takes the full 2 minutes +.  I’m inclined to think there is a pattern of some sort but at the moment I really don’t see it.  Not sure what else to try.

Drivers and system updates….

30 seconds startup here including Wine initialization.  If Wine is prefetched, startup is in the 20 second range.  This includes negotiating the connection to the centralized CMS server.

Kendall

i have long load times too, but only the first time following a system/Windows reboot
if i close DS4.5 and restart it, the load time is almost nil
i suspect it’s the content management daemon that goes through all the content folders
maybe it also goes through the gigantic data/ folders
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i changed my default scene to, the genesis figure, then deleted genesis from the scene, and saved this as my new default scene

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oh another thing is, 99% of the time i use DS 4.5,
if i use ds3 and later run ds4.5, the DS4.5 crashes seem more frequent
so i tend to reboot the PC before using playing with DS4.5

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i’ll try a reboot and see if my new default scene helped

Mine starts in 11 seconds, no Genesis scene because I have premade scenes to work for.
my issue is the eternal, ETERNAL, readings throug the disk after scene loaded completely, and that is more than 2 minutes….

My DS3 was like this, long start up times and delays in reading the Poser runtime where DS2 has no such issues.

DS4 and DS45 both start up rather quickly for me, about 10 seconds or so.

test results,

after changing the scene to Genesis default, then back to an empty scene
and rebooting the PC

i still get: long load times for the first run of DS4.5

very fast load times for subsequent runs
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unconfirmed: saving the scene before exiting DS4.5 seems to help avoid crash-after-exit and seems to ensure a fast load on the next run

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when DS4.5 is loading and taking time, i see very little CPU usage on DS4.5 and the content manager task, which would probably indicate that the time is spent on disk activity

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next test : i’ll remove my poser runtime from the library and reboot the PC

Right, that’s the sort of result I’m getting, though I haven’t been able to see a systematic pattern.

more test results

i tried different things

- removed all the Poser and old Daz Studio folders from the content library
- tried to swap dlls ( that webkit dll is huge )
- factory reset
- installed the new version of DS 4.5, i was at 4.5.0.114 i think and am now at 4.5.1.6

i still get post-PC-reboot start times of 4 minutes

followed by 10 seconds start times

since all processes (including mcAfee) seem to almost not use CPU time during those painful 4 minutes starts
i still suspect that DS or one of its components is frantically searching for something on my hard disk.
Then later on when i start DS, the location of that something was memorized. and when i reboot it is forgotten

wild hypothesis: missing QT environment variables or registry entries