Can My Machine Run the Newest Version of Das Studio?

IceDragonArt

I store all my content on a separate removable drive.

 

 

Device Name MSI

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz   2.80 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)

Storage 932 GB HDD HGST HTS541010B7E610, 238 GB SSD TOSHIBA THNSNJ256G8NY

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

Device ID E39EC347-3C8F-4F99-A040-85D2D7FFC2E2

Product ID 00325-96227-43080-AAOEM

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

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richardandtracy

There are two 'latest' versions. DS 4.24 (full release) and the DS6.2025 alpha. I can't answer with regard to the alpha release. The RAM available will be very limiting. The graphics card probably won't work when doing an Iray render. With win10/11 I think the highest version that will run with a GTX1060 is DS 4.21 or 4.22. If using Win7, the highest version of DS will be 4.16 due to driver-OS compatibility. You can render in CPU, but it will take 40-50x longer. A single portrait render will then take 40-50 minutes -ish. You may just have enough ram to have 2 figures and a background. If it starts to use RAM page files, the memory access speed drops by 1000fold and there is a massive instability risk. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Regards, Richard.

IceDragonArt

richardandtracy said:

There are two 'latest' versions. DS 4.24 (full release) and the DS6.2025 alpha. I can't answer with regard to the alpha release. The RAM available will be very limiting. The graphics card probably won't work when doing an Iray render. With win10/11 I think the highest version that will run with a GTX1060 is DS 4.21 or 4.22. If using Win7, the highest version of DS will be 4.16 due to driver-OS compatibility. You can render in CPU, but it will take 40-50x longer. A single portrait render will then take 40-50 minutes -ish. You may just have enough ram to have 2 figures and a background. If it starts to use RAM page files, the memory access speed drops by 1000fold and there is a massive instability risk. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Regards, Richard.

No worries!  I actually am fine with the 4.12 I have on this machine, eventually, I will put together a new machine but I most definitely didn't want to load it up if it wasn't going to work!  As always, you have been very helpful!

 

Richard Haseltine

richardandtracy said:

There are two 'latest' versions. DS 4.24 (full release) and the DS6.2025 alpha. I can't answer with regard to the alpha release. The RAM available will be very limiting. The graphics card probably won't work when doing an Iray render. With win10/11 I think the highest version that will run with a GTX1060 is DS 4.21 or 4.22. If using Win7, the highest version of DS will be 4.16 due to driver-OS compatibility. You can render in CPU, but it will take 40-50x longer. A single portrait render will then take 40-50 minutes -ish. You may just have enough ram to have 2 figures and a background. If it starts to use RAM page files, the memory access speed drops by 1000fold and there is a massive instability risk. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Regards, Richard.

GTX cards are deprecated but not unsupported in the current versions. Going forward that does mean DS 2025 will eventually stop supporting the cards but DS 4 should be safe as it is not likely to receive further updates (beyond removing 3Delight from the installers at the end of the year, so make sure yoiu have a back up of application and plug-in installers if that matters to you). Of course how useful such a card would be is another matter - my 1650Super with 6GB drops part way through rendering a nude Genesis 8/9 figure.

IceDragonArt

So if I were to want to purchase a new laptop to run the newest version, what would be a good choice?  I will need to put some money aside to save up for it but would like to have an idea of what would work.  And Christmas is coming lol.

SimonJM

IceDragonArt said:

So if I were to want to purchase a new laptop to run the newest version, what would be a good choice?  I will need to put some money aside to save up for it but would like to have an idea of what would work.  And Christmas is coming lol.

Be aware that if the laptop is 'of the newest' it is likely to have an nVidia 50xx type card, which means that Iray will only be available to the latest alpha(?) version od DS (version 6?). I believe dForce uses CUDS technology which is not unique/limited to nVidia so will likely work within DS4.24, etc.

IceDragonArt

SimonJM said:

IceDragonArt said:

So if I were to want to purchase a new laptop to run the newest version, what would be a good choice?  I will need to put some money aside to save up for it but would like to have an idea of what would work.  And Christmas is coming lol.

Be aware that if the laptop is 'of the newest' it is likely to have an nVidia 50xx type card, which means that Iray will only be available to the latest alpha(?) version od DS (version 6?). I believe dForce uses CUDS technology which is not unique/limited to nVidia so will likely work within DS4.24, etc.

It doesn't have to be the newest tech, just something that will work with whatever is going on now.  I'm many versions behind and I know that I can't just install say version ds4.16 or something.  I  am actually okay with sticking to 4.12 but would still like a machine that would handle the dforce and iray in a more efficient and timely manner.