I am currently running a GTX 980ti with the nVidia 388.43 drivers. I haven't updated to newer drivers because everything is running fine with these (currently running Daz Studio 4.9.4.122).  Tomorrow I am getting a 1080ti delivered.  Initially I will be swapping out the 980ti for the new card and then in a few weeks I plan to upgrade the power supply and reinstall the 980ti and a secondary card for Iray rendering.  The question is, what would be the best way to go about the upgrade tomorrow:

A) Removing the nvidia drivers, swapping for the new card and reinstalling 388.43.
B) Removing the nvidia drivers, swapping for the new card and installing the latest nVidia drivers.
C) Swap the cards and leave the drivers alone.
D) Something else?

Anyone who has had experience of this, I would greatly appreciate any advice.

The reason I ask is that I added the Materials/Iray doohicky to the outfit and got an error message.

One thing led to another and I couldn't find the Clothing outfit anywhere including the Daz3D store wherein I searched for it.

It loads yet I can't add the Iray or the 3Delight material.

I assumed it was part of a the Genesis 8 character.  Anyone know anything about it.  (I have a memory problem over some things.

I bot Ultimo Paradiso.  Looks cool.  There are 3 scripts to build the island.  I open Explorer, navigate to the correct folder, hit the script to build the island.  It opens DS and makes the island- works great!  I hit the second script and it opens a second instance of DS and puts the vegetation in where there is no island.

How do I run the 3 scripts so that it is all in the same instance of DS?

Thanks!

When in iray preview changing between michell and gaussian filter does nothing and does not even reload the rendering process, changing to traingle or box filter reloads the rendering process though.

Have my memory taken an vaccation and there never was any diffrence between the gaussian and michell filters ?  

I haven't fired up Studio since around Mar 10. (Gee, thanks, RL!)  I opened up the Default/Lost and Found category and find 9 items as user created folders in it; some of the stuff bought during March Madness.  Items I bought but did NOT install.  (BTW, my L&F folder was empty on/or about Mar. 10. And I sure did not create the folders.  And I bet if I delete the folder and restart Studio, that folder will come back empty.) 

One (Alphakini Contemporary) is just one of the bundle I bought; so one file out of four showing up is mysterious.  Possibly being an older prop, doesn't have the right metatags.   (Similar with Gen 3 Essentials and Sultana?)  But Bar Interior 2018?  And Empty Detention Cell?  Both new produsts.  I would have thot that they would have proper metatags.  Why (how) do they show up as lost and found?   We have apparently system created user folders... or something like that.

Also, under Shader Sets, the Sheer Metallic Fabrics (new product, again, purchased but not installed) shows up as 'system created' folder with appropriate subfolders per the product listing via smart content?  It has the subfolders per the Install view when I look at the 'Smart Content'.... so metatags must be there somewhere.  But something else must cause them to show up in the default listing.  What mysterious force is involved?  (Well, ok, what in the software is doing this?)  As 'system created' folders, I could understand some tie between my Product Library and the CMS.  But it seems too tightly and inconsistently wound together.  (In my mind and hierarchy, I don't really differentiate Shaders from a Shader Set.  I will (using Sheer Metallic as an example) go with Shaders/Sheer Metallic/... folder structure will move/categorize accordingly.  But I shouldn't have seen it (by my feeble logic) at all.

It drives be crazy to understand what is going on and how to find what's what and what's where.  This apparently random addition and changes to folders adds an (IMHO) unnecessary challenge to managing the CMS.  Maybe if I understand the why and how, I can at least know what to expect.  Right now it appears to be evil forces, black magic, and/or the Illuminati that do not want me to manage my runtime efficiently.  

Point me to the correct tool or product to start getting my gen 3 stuff on gen 2 female and male? And maybe vice versa?

--thank you for your time

I've experienced something odd and wondered if anyone out there had experienced the same. Not sure if this is ticket-worthy just yet. 

I used DIM to install some items. When i moved into DAZ (it had been closed so it's a fresh open), I noticed that some of the items wanted updates and some of the items simply did not show up as installed at all. When I updated the items, one still remains as showing that it needs an update. I'm in the middle of installing one of the items that did not install at all.

I'm using DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 but had experienced the 'eternal update' issue with my previous install of D|S. 

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions?  Lately my experience with the help desk have not been very positive (two items are still outstanding after 2 weeks) and after changing my email address yesterday, the support history is gone completely.

Which setting choice will make more sense? "None" or "Full Body" ?

At base pose things look fine, but as you can see in the pictures bending the arms down causes odd crumpling of the mesh underneath and around the arms. Any ideas? I have no clue where to start with this...

If anyone has a suggestion--or better yet, has noticed the same problem and found a cure for it--I'd be interested to know.

Thanks in advance!

p.s. The cover-up is from https://www.daz3d.com/alphakini-bundle, so it should be sufficiently modest for these forums.

Thanks much for any assistance!!! 

I guess the name "Eyeray" ("Iray") indicates that it only works with Iray, but since my GPU is from AMD is a big deal using Iray (my computer freezes constantly, much longer rendering times), I was wondering if there is any way to make it work with 3Dlight.

This is the result: https://i.imgur.com/FUTVQKI.png

As you can see, is almost there. I wish the developer/s had push a little more the project, because looks like with a bit more work the 3Dlight render would handle the "withe area" of the eye. The ires looks great.

When I'm in Daz Studio, the eyes looks great, so I was wondering if there is any way to render it properly.

Another thing: why when I use Iray, there is a white rectangle in the eye? I'm using the naked G8M only with the EYEray. Is it because the "camera" is too close? If I move the camera, the rectangle apears in a different position. The Iray settings are the default. Is there any way to remove that? I want to make some close up renders, but if there is a big white rectangle the result will be spoiled :(

https://i.imgur.com/L3XJ6y4.png

Thanks in advance for any help. Have a great day!

I just recently invested in a threadripper 1950x, but due to budget constraints, I only have 4 GB of RAM in the system (looking to get 128 GB along with two GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Cards).  I've got it running on a SSD with a SSD cache, but content is on a HDD.  To help compensate for lack of RAM, i've opened up my page to 130 GB.

I've got a scene that I'm trying to render out: its a stair case entrance to a ball room with dining chairs and tables and i think 16 light sources. I have 11 genesis 3 female models, all with various types of dresses (they are characters from a series i'm co-writing).  When i turn on the iray for drawing mode or initiate a regular render (1000 pixels wide by 667 high), Daz only uses 1 thread to render it out. This is obviously going to take a LONG time.

Here comes the hinky part; when I hide the staircase, the chairs and have 1 genesis 3 mode going, Daz utilizes ALL 32 threads (technically about 30 since I allocate all but one or two cores for the rest of the system.)  I throw in the stairs and another model, Daz uses all available at 100%.  I currently have 4 models, the stair case and lights going and Daz is using 30 threads from high 60% to 90%. The more stuff i add, the more the percentage drops across ALL threads. Remember, the 1950x is a 16 core cpu with hyperthreading. It should be using all available at 100%, or at least that's my understanding.

Here is another hinky part: i designed this scene on an 8350 and when i set it to iray on 6 of the 8 cores, the entire model slams the available at 100%.

Does anyone know why Daz won't utilize all the threads available when the entire scene is portrayed? Is it lack of RAM (which is my assumption) or is there a setting that I just don't know about?  I've already compared both sets of settings and couldn't find anything at first look.

thanks in advance. I'll bookmark the thread so i can reply asap.

I've just come on a disturbing problem with my characters. When I load a character and a hair to go with it, in Iray render I've the result in attached files, some sort of blue hairlines. I didn't modify the characters or the hairs, and the render settings are by default. The ressources used are Michael 8, Victoria 8, Axel Hair and Voss Hair.

Have you ever experience this?

I have 11Gig of VRAM, yet even when I load a blank scene, Iray Mem Assistant says that I have a "Potential VRAM Shortage = -,163.04".  

Daz Studio Version 4.10.123.

The "In-App" error essentially tells me to review the log file to see what is wrong. so I open the log file and below is the error it is recording.

2018-04-03 06:19:26.405 WARNING: Script Error: Line 1
2018-04-03 06:19:26.405 WARNING: TypeError: Result of expression 'App.getInterface().getPaneMgr().findPane( "aniMate" )' [null] is not an object.
2018-04-03 06:19:26.405 WARNING: Stack Trace:
    <anonymous>()@C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/aniblocks/animate/walks/forward_(1_cycle)-g8f.ds:1
2018-04-03 06:19:26.405 Error in script execution: C:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library/aniblocks/animate/walks/forward_(1_cycle)-g8f.ds

Please note this is while attempting to apply the walk animation; however any and ALL animations give this error.

DS 4.10, Gen 8 Female.

Nothing oaded in scene besides G8F.

Any ideas?