Regret going to RTX 5000 series?

savagestug

Anyone who moved to a RTX 5000 series card regret the switch to DS 2025 due to missing scripts/plug ins? Got a 5060 ti 16 gb for Xmas and wonder if switching from 4070 will be a pain. Would like that extra VRAM but use a lot of scripts

namffuak

Depends on the system. Mine is 10 years old, but the MB and case can support 3 dual-slot cards. I currently have a 1080 TI driving dual monitors, a 3060 for use in DS4 and DS6, and a 5060 TI for use with the 3060 in DS6. I figure on getting another 5060 TI before the well runs dry to replace the 1080TI - put the monitors on the 3060.

I'm in my 70s, won't be going to Windows 11 - so I figure on getting off the upgrrade treadmill when Nvdia quits providing drivers for windows 10.

Richard Haseltine

You can of course work in DS 4 and then open the scene in DS 2025 for rendering - Mesh Grabber modifications will need to be turned into morphs, but most other plug-ins and scripts don't need to be live once they have done their thing.

daveso

those 5000 cards are more than my entire system and I have a 4080. 

 

jjoyner

As I was shopping for a new desktop computer this summer, I decided that I did not want to go to an RTX 50xx.  I was very fortunate to find a computer in August that had an RTX 4070 Super card in it.  However, when I brought the computer home and set it up, it turns out that the manufacturer (builder) of the computer had “upgraded” several of their builds to RTX 50xx cards at no additional cost.  I was going to return the computer to the retail store where I bought it for a refund but decided to call the manufacturer’s customer support line first.  They were very easy to reach by phone and helpful.  Someone got back to me the same day to let me know that they still had a few new RTX 4070 Super cards and would send me one once I returned the 50xx card.  I’m happy.

Dareshiranu

I'm not... entirely happy I must admit. I recently had to build a new rig due to "reasons" and was fortunate to do so just before the AI bubble expanded to making what I have insanely expensive. So I now have a 9950X3d CPU, with 192GB of DDR5, combined with a 5090, all in a HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite. The only drawback to the case is that I can only have a single GPU in it - a feature I didn't realize/consider at the time as I had intended to run both my 3090 and the new 5090 concurrently until Daz sorted itself out. As it stands right now, I'm mostly creating and saving all of my characters as persona presets to save myself time when using them in the future, as well as making reference renders of them in their base forms. It's my hope to make things simpler in the long term when I cut out duplicate formulas and weird overlaps of some morphs that I zero out before saving. I also escape the missing scene problems that crop up when loading fresh characters. This is all from a fresh(ish) install of DS, BTW. My major issues with that overall came up when I had to wrestle with DIM and using an external M.2 RAID for my libraries - that was far more work than I'd dreamed it would be and required more installing/uninstalling the directories on the SSDs than I'd ever planned upon. I'd wanted a "one and done" solution, but ended up with yutzing about maybe half a dozen times before it worked properly. It's still not completely to my satisfaction, but at least it mostly works and I don't have too many duplicate directories despite the software's monomaniacal insistence. 

TLDR: My 5090 has sped up my rendering by quite a lot over my 3090, I can't complain about that. We'll just have to see what happens with plug-ins and scripts. Fingers crossed.

Richard Haseltine

Dareshiranu said:

I'm not... entirely happy I must admit. I recently had to build a new rig due to "reasons" and was fortunate to do so just before the AI bubble expanded to making what I have insanely expensive. So I now have a 9950X3d CPU, with 192GB of DDR5, combined with a 5090, all in a HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite. The only drawback to the case is that I can only have a single GPU in it - a feature I didn't realize/consider at the time as I had intended to run both my 3090 and the new 5090 concurrently until Daz sorted itself out. As it stands right now, I'm mostly creating and saving all of my characters as persona presets to save myself time when using them in the future, as well as making reference renders of them in their base forms. It's my hope to make things simpler in the long term when I cut out duplicate formulas and weird overlaps of some morphs that I zero out before saving.

Duplicate Formula warnings will not gfo away by zeroing morphs - they are triggered by having two links from "So-and-so" to "Such-and-such" (usually because two content-creators used the same name for a character shape) and will trigger when the data is read, since it is the links to other properties rather than the current values that matter.

I also escape the missing scene problems that crop up when loading fresh characters. This is all from a fresh(ish) install of DS, BTW. My major issues with that overall came up when I had to wrestle with DIM and using an external M.2 RAID for my libraries - that was far more work than I'd dreamed it would be and required more installing/uninstalling the directories on the SSDs than I'd ever planned upon. I'd wanted a "one and done" solution, but ended up with yutzing about maybe half a dozen times before it worked properly. It's still not completely to my satisfaction, but at least it mostly works and I don't have too many duplicate directories despite the software's monomaniacal insistence. 

TLDR: My 5090 has sped up my rendering by quite a lot over my 3090, I can't complain about that. We'll just have to see what happens with plug-ins and scripts. Fingers crossed.

savagestug

I'm on the fence, kind of seems like a pain to move between DS versions, but the extra 4 gb of VRAM would be nice. Render time would increase a little over my current 4070, but that's a minor concern for me. Lucked into the 5060 ti on sale for $375. May wait to see how DS 2025 progresses, maybe use the gpu later or sell when prices go crazy.