Studio and Windows10
Nosiferret
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Is anyone else having issues with this pair? Since working with 10 for the last month and a bit, Studio runs more buggy. Since I've also upgraded my graphics card last week to a 970 I've noticed more hang times with Studio to the point that it crashes more and if I stop a render, it goes into not responding and the Microsoft box pops up super fast saying there has been an error and needs to shut down the program and then bling there goes my whole scene. And the only thing in my scene was 1 lone figure dressed in 2 pieces of clothing and there was a hair item...not like I had 10 figures in a loaded prop scene and the scene needed more memory or something....So Don't know what is happening, if its on my end or what.
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I'd suggest downloading the latest Nvidia drivers and checking the option labelled "Clean install".
I have this pairing & don't get problems often - The latest drivers I have for the 970 are release date 12/21/2015 - version 361.43
One thing I noticed since Windows 10 is that at times using Optix Prime Acceleration causes problems so now I only tick off the GTX 970 in advanced options & leave everything else unchecked & I can't remember Studio crashing on me in recent times of course now I've said that you know its going to crash on me just when I haven't saved my scene :)
I just got my GTX 960/4GB and finished installing the drivers just now. I hope it runs smooth. I have just about had it with Windows 10 myself after two re-installations.
Yes, my computer started blue-screening over the past weeks. NVidia drivers are up to date, per Nvidia. I am wondering if the last update made it incompatible
I just dropped to 4.7 and it seems to be working now. May be a Nvidia/iRay problem?
I'm sure the drivers are updated, but we had problems installing right at the beginning using that Nvidia auto-download-install thingy they have, it kept giving an error message, either unable to open or not allowed or something along those lines. So went directly to Nvidia and downloaded the drivers manually and installed them. I've noticed some times that 'updating' video card drivers is like an 1 hour plus event....horrible.
My brother said the old card I removed was better at memory management than my new card, but my new card beats the old on of course in everything else. So maybe it is something along the lines of Nvidia/Iray in the way it allocates the memory for renders? I dunno. I was just noticing it seemed to happen more lately since the upgrades.
Updates don't always mean better. It is better to wait till the bugs get worked out before moving to new Operating System and drivers. I am avoiding MS Win10 like the black plague. I don't like bloat and Windows 7 works just fine. Why do I need cortana or spyware in an operating system. I do not use tablets for home computing and Win10 is tablet software, like Win 8. I have a smartphone I don't need a tablet. I do have a kindle but that is just for reading books from Amazon. I think the business world is going crazy over the tablet scene because they are being made very cheaply and being sold like hot cakes and the corporate world wants to get their cut of the fast money. Business people are all about sales not productivity and ease of use. It is unfortunate that we get caught in the cross fire of greedy people.
I have Win10 with a 970, and it works just fine (I did have to reinstall graphics drivers after upgrading). I experienced a few bugs with Studio, but they were endemic to 4.8, and as I understand it, were bugs across all OSes.
Headship refused to work with my system, though. I think that was more because all my libraries are on a second drive and I really did not want them on my smaller solid-state C drive.
Now, while working with your computer, you can left click on the little windows icon in the lower left corner and it will pull up a menu of items. Such as shut down, restart, etc. In the lower right corner is the date and time and if you left click on it it would bring up the calendar. I do have a selection of pinned programs on the bar at the bottom of my screen such as Google, Calculator, etc. What I have noticed recently is when Studio is running I can not left click on the windows icon, or the calendar and sometimes the pinned calculator will not display, just a blank box with the calc symbol on it. Even when I've shut down Studio I am not able to use those areas. While just right before starting Studio I could. So there is something funky going that Studio is doing to Windows or the other way round. It is irritating because I don't have access to the calendar and to shut down my PC I have to right click on the Windows and get a generic looking menu where I select shut down. I think this was happening prior to the 970 addition but after the super long windows 10 update...I can't blame Windows because everything works fine...until Studio starts up then things go weird. So maybe Studio doesn't play well with Win10 or Win10 doesn't like Studio....
Silver--My last update for Win10 went something like this. I started up my computer and then my screen went orange and the little whirly cog showed up and said please wait while updating finishes and then it flashes a few times and then the computer went to restart. then it came back with a blue screen saying to please wait while updates finish installing and then kept giving me messages like You are going to love the updates we've done...personally, these messages were really making me nervous....I thought it was some hacker virus.....but for a full hour I had no control of my computer and then it restarted again and I end up with what I got. Seems lately that Windows is more agressive with this updating process than usual, it used to just prompt you with you have an update, download it now? Or install it now? Now, it just does it.
With Windows 10 you don't get a choice with updates it will automatically download anything - You can go to settings - windows update - advanced options & choose "Notify to schedule restart" to prevent it just rebooting while you are working which is how I have it set.
There are people online saying they do other stuff to prevent the updates even downloading - I have never tried this as the scheduled updates don't cause me a problem
http://www.howtogeek.com/224471/how-to-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-downloading-updates/
I don't think Windows 10 itself has a problem with Studio as I have had it since August when I updated from Windows 8.1 & have not had any issues - I can load calculators - calendars & do any other stuff while rendering so something else is going on for you - Hopefully one of the experts in troubleshooting will chime in with a few ideas for you
Thanks Tottallou :)
As far as I know, if you don't have the Pro version of Windows whatever when you upgrade to 10, you have no control over updates. If you have a Pro version, then you get the Pro version of 10 and you can control, to some extent, how updates are downloaded and installed. You can delay them for several months (giving you time to see other complaints or confirmations that it's OK - let the dust settle). I have just been putting it off until I see no more huge complaints. I'm staying with Windows 7 Pro until that time. I know there will always be those who complain...some just because it is an anti-Microsoft culture...but when the majority of bugs are gone, then I'll maybe take a chance. Then again, maybe not. Maybe my box doesn't have the power to take advantage of it. Eventually, there will be no choice. When support ends for 7, that's it. But it will be a while before that happens.
You might want to update your video drivers (maybe you already have, I don't know). And try to see if there are any complaints about this behavior on MS support forums. Maybe someone else had this issue and it was resolved.
Dana
I could not get PostgreSQL to work with Windows 10, but once I downloaded Valentina I had no problems at all with DS running on my new Windows 10 laptop. A quick check on the internet reveals that there is a known bug that prevents PostgreSQL from working properly with Windows 10 on some machines.
The biggest pain the in ass I had switching things over to the new PC was having to go through all my assets and manually integrate them into Smart Content via DB Content editor. I really wish Daz would improve their content management.
It's always something.
Why did you need to do it manually?
Because just copying my DAZ library directory over to the new computer didn't copy the metadata for all the content.
Had you ever Exported User Data on the old computer?
No, never did that.
The worst is one side says "Well the problem is caused by your side so we're not going to fix it" and the other side says "no the problem is caused on your side so you have to fix it, not us".