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Totte, thanks for the advice. It all seems very straight forward and I thought I followed your directions. However, the problem remains. I will respectfully leave this thread. I don't want to intrude on mavante's topic any longer.
Okay. I'll still do the other thing later with the log.txt, if needed, but I'm attaching the screen grab you asked for--plus four other related screen grabs. I've put a legend of numbers on the attached images, and here is an annotated list of what they are:
1. DS About Videocard image
The one you asked for, from from DS Help->Troubleshooting -> About Videocard. (I think Helen Keller must have designed the colors for that panel because they are completely unreadable in every workplace style available, so I pulled it into Photoshop and tweaked it so it is at least readable.)
2. Finder Nvidia Menu Bar
This shows that the "NVIDIA Web Driver" is in use (check mark), but see red arrow to other option, which I will revisit below this list of images.
3. DS Render Settings Advanced
Back into DS to show that I currently have my settings to "CPU" without the Nvidia GPU selected. That was a change I made at some point when trying to deal with many crashes, both of DS and of my entire computer when DS was running, and the Nvidia GPU was checked.
4. Nvidia Driver System Preferences
Just shows that Nvidia claims my web driver is up to date.
5. Cuda System Preferences
Ditto regarding the Cuda driver.
Back to that image No. 2 image, Finder Nvidia Menu Bar: At some point in all this—and I cculd not answer exactly when if I had a gun to my head and hot bamboo shoots under my fingernails—I used Nvidia's own menubar options to switch from "NVIDIA Web Driver" to "Default MacOS Graphics Driver" to see if that would stop all the infernal sudden blackout crashing of my computer when DS was open, and I did something offensive--like go look at a YouTube video.
Regrettably, that seemed to so hobble DS that at some point I used those same menubar options to switch it back to "NVIDIA Web Driver." And that's the whole miserable story, yer 'onor, right up to this moment where I stand, scuffing me toes and twisting me cap in me 'and. I throw meself on the blessed and divine mercy of the court.
(1) The Color probably depends on what drawing style you use (I prefer dark side myself, fits DS, but I hate darkmode in macOS)
(2) Are you using nVidia or Built in Driver right now with the problems. (got confused, probbaly cause it's getting late).
Your problems are really weird, so the log.txt would be very good.
As I said above: "IN EVERY WORKPLACE STYLE AVAILABLE." I fixed it in Photoshop. This isn't the issue and I'm dreadfully sorry, sincerely, that I even mentioned it.
As Image 2 shows, I CURRENTLY have the NVIDIA driver selected. For a brief period of a few days during the past few weeks, I had the built-in OS driver selected, but then switched it back.
Man, we're on the same page there with that "weird" part.
I'll do the log.txt routine later tonight. Get some rest! And thanks again.
No intrusion at all, Ron. I well know the frustration, and would truly love to see you get it fixed. If I have any bright ideas I'll pipe up—but as you can see from my posts and plight, it would certainly being the blind leading the blind.
That is a hint, if that window looks terrible, something is weird!
Mine looks like this...
Might be diffrent in different DS versions tough..
Okay. Here is what the default screen grabs look like in mine, in three different workspace styles.
And as a new sour note, I just shut down my iMac and restarted due to some completely different anomaly with Finder and Spotlight searches (that resolved fine), and when I started back up, I got the dreaded "Could not load," or open, or, like, what-EVAH the NVIDIA drivers, with instructions to try to reinstall them.
(Sigh) Why bother.
[RANT MODE] Every single thing I have ever had to do with NVIDIA has been a total complicated PITA, and I didn't sign up to start a new career in Ubergeekdom at this point in my life. I don't CARE what's "under the hood," or even where the hood is. I want to turn the key and start the confounded thing and have it go where I'm trying to get to. Frankly, I'm beginning to be glad, no, JOYFUL that Apple has told NVIDIA not to let the kennel gate hit them on their way out. They have to change their drivers more often than some people change their underwear (well, that's the rumor), then they leave their dirty drivers scattered all over the "house," and it takes a post-graduate degree in NVIDIA even to figure out what gimmegahoojit is supposed to plug into which version of what thingamajig, and I'm SICK of the whole bloody mess! [/RANT MODE]
I hope everyone is having a pleasant day.
There was a refactoring of the report http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/change_log_4_12_1_117#4_12_1_4
Totte, bless you! I found your repair tool & ran it. DAZ Studio appears to work ok now... I don't see any message about troubles connecting to post(whatever!)!
Tolllld ya Totte was a Hero Wizard :)
Fanfare! Huzzahs! That is fantastic, Ron! I'm so glad you got yours solved. Any pointers to this tool you ran? (I think my issue is likely different, but I wouldn't mind having it on the pegboard just in case.)
Well done to Totte and you! Yes, Zai, I agree with your dubbing him a Hero Wizard.
Thanks, everyone. First, I am sometimes terrible at picking up clues. Sometimes I just skim through and miss many details. I remembered that Totte had mentioned his utility... then went looking for it. I warn you, this utility works "invisibly." I never saw a sign that it had worked, so I ran it a few times. Eventually I caught on, and just ran it once. I've been splitting time between the iMac and my HP notebook, doing a mass re-install of everything. I didn't work with DAZ Studio after the fix. I just loaded DAZ Studio, and noticed the "post" error was not there.... Sorry,. my memory stinks. Now I can blame it on old age. And I am too lazy to look up the proper names for "post.." and the utility. Yes, I am happy. Perhaps I'll have time and energy to play with DAZ Studio in more depth tomorrow.
@Richard_Haseltine
Thanks Richard, was to busy to look at that end, and I know you uually have such things in mind. That explains the coloured video card info (yes, that was 4.11.0.383), now dig into that.
@Ron_Knights
You're welcome. I put a link to the tool ehere, but it only fixes the ContentCluster permissions. I might add fixing the overlaying cms folder permissions as well, but AppleScript isn't my natural language so it's painful writing in it, but changes to the AuthLibs made ot simpler to run it as an Applescript.
@mavate
That really sounds like the nVidia Drivers are failing, which can be the sign of a bad block on the harddrive or something else, not really related to DAZ Studio, except that it causes Studio to fall flat. Have you tested to run any other 3D program, anything, just to see if it works, I think there are a few speed testers available (too early to google right now)
Sorry to be away this long; had a client whose hair was on fire.
First, it may not matter, but on my computer there is not this path that you wrote: ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio 64/ -> log.txt
Instead it is: ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio 4/ -> log.txt
So here is what I have done:
I hope you can find some common denominator. I am 12 days into a Tech Help Ticket, and if I merely put here the bare, unaltered facts of the two correspondences I have received in that amount of time, I'm pretty sure someone would think I was making it up, and one or more of the mods here would likely nuke this without ceremony.
I make interesting discoveries:
That is really bad!
Do you have any extra plugins installed?
Do you still have your old installers?
I would uninstall Studio then rename the ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio 4/ to ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/Studio 4xx/ Then install studio and Studio again if you don't have any other plugins installed.
So, its either a plugin that throws an execption or something in the current configuration that has h´made it happen, at least that is what see as the most plausible causes.
Yeah, I kinda figured it was something bad.
I did. Sometime in the past week, in the efforts to try and fix this, I downloaded and ran some script that I found somewhere in these forums that was supposed to turn off or disable or remove all third-party plugins. (Was that script from you or somebody else?) I have no idea what it actually did; sometimes I have to just do what I'm told like a robot. The third party plugins I had installed that I can recall were Fluidos, that Reality/Lux Render thing, Animate 2, Keymate, Graphmate. If there are others, I don't recall what they are/were.
Yes. Thankfully I have backed up the zip file of 4.11 that DIM installed, and it's also in the standard folder DIM creates: Users/Shared/DAZ 3D/InstallManager/Downloads.
I'm a bit confused by this: "install studio and Studio again." Do you mean install DIM and Studio again?
I think that if I uninstall Daz Studio through DIM, it then will delete my existing 4.11 zip and try to force the new 4.12 on me, along with a newer DIM, isn't that right? If so, can you (or anyone) tell me how to force it to use my 4.11 backup zip and keep the existing DIM. Sorry to be, uh, "DIM," but the way this Daz "install manager" manages things is as inscrutable as it is tyrannical, to me.
Thank you again very much for all this help.
You need move copy the old installers out from DIMs storage, then in DIM remove DAZ Studio and plugins, and not download the new DS. When you delete the install, they will end up in installable again. But make a copy forst of all the DIM files for DS first.
Okay. Thank you again. I will not be able to do this until sometime tomorrow, maybe late, because of trying to meet deadlines, but will definitely report results.
Sorry to be so slow to respond. Have had hair-tearing deadlines to meet for pesky clients.
With my old installers backed up just in case, but the old 4.11 installer still where DIM puts them, I did that. I worked offline so DIM wouldn't replace it with 4.12. DIM then showed 4.11 as "Ready to Install." But stay tuned ...
I did that.
I don't know what that means. I had some 3rd-party plugins installed, which I listed for you earlier in this thread, and Daz installs a huge list of plugins, so I don't know what "other" means. And, as I also said earlier, I had run the script that Richard Haseltine has pointed to several times that supposedly disables plugins. I have no idea what it is doing or not doing. But for good measure, after DIM reinstalled 4.11 (or said it was doing that, stay tuned), I opened DS, went into "About Plugins," and manually DISABLED the only 3rd-party plugins I know of ever having:
1. Reality
2. Fluidos
3. AniMate2 (full)
4. KeyMate
5. GraphMate
I then quit and restarted DS. I verified that those plugins were disabled. It showed all my Smart Content. I attempted to load in a car. Instant crash.
I then restarted DS. I attempted to create a cube in an empty scene. Instant crash.
Now if that level of sheer insanity isn't enough, DIM no longer shows 4.11 under "Installed." It shows only DS 4.12. See first image attached.
Yet it also shows DS 4.12 under "Ready to Download." See second image attached.
Yet when I get Finder Info on the just-installed DazStudio4 64-bit, it says it is 4.11. See third image attached.
I work with some of the most complicated and sophisticated software on the market, and I have never seen anything this bug-ridden since the Commodore 64 days. I think that I have had all the bug-infested electronic psychosis that I can stand for one day.
Is there a way I can wipe every last trace and vestige of DS off my computer—as though it never, ever had been installed—and then reinstall 4.11 from scratch, given that I have the original zip file for 4.11 backed up?
I mean I want every last trace of it gone, including any and all database, CMS, and any preferences I had set—and especially everything that ever was installed by Daz Connect. I need to get to a totally clean slate because there is no other way to trace down where these nutcase instant crashes are coming from.
Yes - there are a few locations to wipe clean, /Users/Shared/DAZ 3D/ & ~/Library/Application Support/DAZ 3D/ then you should reinstall. Cannot gurarantee 100% that it wipes all but what I've done when I needed to wipe it from a machine without wiping content.
For DAZ Connect, I recommend wiping th Connect Library, you find the location from the Content Director Manager.
I was more thinking of plugins not from DAZ, so there
The complexity of DS is quite huge as it enables a huge flexibility. What it shows as installed it picks up from the receipts folder, so if you installed 4.12 but had made a copy of 4.11 first it will show 4.12.
TOTTE:
>The complexity of DS is quite huge as it enables a huge flexibility. What it shows as installed it picks up from the receipts folder, so
>if you installed 4.12 but had made a copy of 4.11 first it will show 4.12.
Thanks. But I've never installed 4.12 at all, other than one public build.
I believe I finally have slain the invisible beast. I pray nobody ever has to go through what I've gone through with Daz, but if so, here is what finally worked:
I used DIM to uninstall everything it had installed and could uninstall, including DS 11 and the DS 12 beta I had once instailled.
Then I certainly scoured every possible location for anything related to Daz Studio, including /Users/Shared, ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Documents, and of course Applications. In Applications/DAZ 3D I deleted everything except DIM. I left in place the /Users/Shared/DAZ 3D/Install Manager/Downloads folder, which contains the zips, including IM00013176-04_DAZStudio411Mac64bit.zip, which is what I wanted to install.
Another important place that needed to be searched was ~/Library/Preferences, in which I found three strange files beginning com.daz, one ending in garbled alpha characters. I deleted everything but the DIM prefereneces.
I then opened DIM and set its file paths for everything to Default, instead of the custom content paths I had created and assigned it to. Then, working online, I had it download everything available to me—BUT NOT DS 12!—and made sure it DID NOT automatically install anything after download.
I closed DIM, then reopened it, and chose to work OFFLINE. So then, when I went to DIM's "Ready to Install" pane to reinstall, it showed everything ready to install—EXCEPT ANY VERSION AT ALL OF THE DAZ STUDIO PROGRAM! (See first image attached—but notice "Display Hidden" is not checked; stay tuned.)
I knew absolutely that the zip file for 4.11 unquestionably was in DIM's own download folder! (See second image attached.)
Only when I checked "Display Hidden" did Daz Studio 4.11 show up—but it was GREYED OUT! (You may think I have to be making this up. I do write fiction, but I swear this is pure nonfiction.)
It allowed me to select it for install anyway. I made sure that ALL third-party plugins available to install were NOT installed, and started the queue.
Once it was all installed, I quit DIM, and opened DS. It loaded. I created a cube. It appeared in the scene. I cleared the scene. I opened one of the "ready to render" scenes that comes with the standard essential content with DS. It loaded right into the scene with no issues. It didn't crash.
And there you have the whole miserable story of how I was able to get DS 4.11 not to crash instantly every time I tried to load or open anything at all.
Now, I will not attest that the following is fact. It is merely a rumor spread by a fellow Daz user who has encountered similar madness in trying to work with and debug Daz products, but he or she (discretion is my middle name) swears that this below is a candid photo taken and leaked of the person responsible for the way all this stuff is set up:
All that's left to do, after I have a few stiff drinks, is to now point DS 4.11 to my own external content directory, and pray that everything still works. If it doesn't, I will know that something, somewhere, somehow, got munged and mungled in my content directory—and then I will really be over the cuckoo's nest.
Daz3D 64 bit installer crashes on brand new 3 hour old Apple M1 Mac Mini wth the attached dialog. When I looked at the permissions in Library two folders just spin and say fetching and the third is set to "staff", about to try the disk utilities/first aid thing to see if it fixes the permissions and installs on additional attempts. https://www.howtogeek.com/195912/how-when-and-why-to-repair-disk-permissions-on-your-mac/