I recently uninstalled daz3d studio 4 and then re-installed 4.5 (both the 32 and 64 version).... everything appeared to installed fine. ....but now when I click on the icon to start the program nothing happens. Is this a Win 7 bug?
Is the Content Management Service running (check the Services tab of task Manager, which you can launch by right-clicking on the Windows Task bar)? If so, try turning it off from the Start menu shortcut.
Thanks Richard for responding to my post…... Ok I stopped Content Management Service in task manager but daz3d studio still will not open for some reason
Ok, the next thing to try is looking at the log - in Windows Control Panel open the Folder options applet, and in the View tab set the option for Hidden Files and Folders to Show, then go to C:\Users\You\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio 4\ and open the log.txt file, if it’s there, scroll to the end and see what the last few lines are.
Scanning content folders
WARNING: dzvalentinaobjectdatabase.cpp(36): DB Register Open error: Stream read error.
DB Register Open error: Stream read error.
WARNING: dzvalentinaobjectdatabase.cpp(36): DB Register Open error: Stream read error.
DB Register Open error: Stream read error.
FATAL: ASSERT failure in QList<T>::at: “index out of range”, file D:\DAZDevel\Hudson\HUDSON_HOME\jobs\NB_Studio_Trunk\workspace\src\sdk\include\QtCore/qlist.h, line 469
It does look like a CMS error, though in that case I’m surprised that shutting it down didn’t help. Try shutting the CMS down again, go to the folder you selected for the database and remove the .ind file - that became corrupted once for me and caused DS to crash on launch.
Hey Richard thanks for getting back to me. Ok I went to the ( C:\Users\Tim\Documents\DAZ 3D.) documents content folder under my user docs but didn’t see the .ind file. I also went to C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 and looked for it there but didn’t see it. Is there another place that daz installs the ind file? Or is it buried inside another folder instead of the root dir???? Maybe I don’t understand what daz is calling a “database”
Thanks again for you time in helping with this issue.
Did you Uninstall the DS4 CMS? Or just the DS4 prg. When I upgraded to DS4.5 I uninstalled both before installing and everything went smooth on my Win7 system. The CMS uninstaller is in the CMS default folder and is not run when you Uninstall DS4. I’m not sure if that will help any but it might. Hope you solve this soon.
Thanks all but nothing has changed….oh well, at least I have poser. I’m on a deadline so I will have to find another working pipeline till I can figger out whats up with Daz. Thanks again for all the helpful tips
I came across this thread, because I’m actually having the same exact problem. I have only been using he software for about a week, but all of a sudden today it wouldn’t run. I have windows 7, 64 bit. I tried uninstalling everything, and reinstalling. I tried stopping CMS. I’ve tried uninstalling, deleting everything in my computer that has any relation to DAZ in it, then reinstalling - still nothing. I even tried uninstalling just the CMS, but still nothing. I can’t figure out what happened between last night and today that made DAZ unuseble on my computer all of a sudden? Does anyone have any ideas?
