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Apologies!
I got confused, as Lena said with the Premier plugins. I don't know why the Pro plugins behaves that way, it happened to me earlier today.
Once again, apologies.
If so, I did not mention Premier, which i have never been a member of, and won't ever be. For a start with i won't let my DSs access the internet. And for a second I won't pay for content I can't keep locally and might lose access to - one reason I was vociferously opposed to DAZ Connect in teh forums back when it ws first intorduced and refused to buy anythign that required it. It was the 'Pro( FREE) Bundle' that suddenly de-registered and had to eb re-registered, completyl screwing up what I ahd been working on for hours. Thougth why having a separate license for that is still a thing, given how long ago it became free and just part of DS for everyone I can't imagine.
In that case, I must go and get my blood pressure back down. I'm pretty sure I'm due a heart attack soon anyway.
Not just me, then. Not quite sure if that makes me feel better or worse.
I haven't gone on to the betas because I didn't want new, unexpected problems. Why would DS 6 suddenly start doing this? Is it going to recur? If so, how often? If it becomes frequent it will make DS6 unusable for me, it was so disruptive. I've been feeling nervous trying to pick up what I'm doing again.
Could you explain your reasons? I'm genuinely interested in your concerns.
They could see what I'm doing with it, and poke around my DS content library and see what products I've installed from where, none of which is any of their business. I can also foresee a circumstance which might stop me buying anything else from the DAZ store.
I grant that I'm trusting that DIM isn't doing anything beyond its remit.
I don't suppose this wil help, but DS is purely pull - it gets data from Daz; other than the anonymised usage data if you opt in to the improvement programme it doesn't send data.
You're right, it won't. I.m not up to intercepting and monitoring the communication between DS and DAZ, and I'm less trusting than I used to be. And just because DAZ don't do something now doesn't mean they couldn't change their minds and do something more. As I see no reason at all why DS should need to talk to DAZ about anything other than the initial activation, there's no reason to leave an open door they might decsde to wander in through.
Super easy to do by the way.
https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php
Set this to medium filtering and display notifications and you will be notified of anything wanting to connect to the internet. And without you saying "allow" it won't. Get ready to be shocked though at all the processes that want to do that.
Daz Studio set to offline does indeed not do so.
Thanks, but my existing security software would tell me if DS tried to phone home and block it. I meant that, especially in my state of brain fog and permanent exhaustion (disabaility, and the side effects of medications) I'm not up to capturing packets and deciphering exactly what the communications were if it did start taking and was allowed to. Easiest just to leave all connection disabled, with a warning if it suddenly tried to start communicting. As I say, I see no reason for DS having to talk to DAZ, or for DAZ to talk to DS come to that. I am trusting DIM, although with misgivings when i think about it.
(Very) True for the 'block everything' comment
Can't comment on DS6; can put that DS4 does not attempt to connect while in OL mode.
What web browser do you use that gives you similar confidence?
Sorry? I'm not aware of any mechanism by which DAZ could use either of my usual web browsers to poke around in my DS library, upload my logs or renders etc. Via cookies they might see what i've bought from the DAZ store wit the browsers, but they can see that just looking in my DAZ account at their end, and I have no problem with them knowing that. From a browser find out what else I've installed into the library, from where (given what it may be), or grab logs and renders, not so much.
14 days... can you re-confirm that ?
It seems DS needs a Premier validation on weekly basis on my side ~
At least for me on an Apple device, I need to reauthorize every two weeks plus after system updates which change my machine's configuration.
Pro Bundle or Premier? A mistaken answer earlier has confused following replies.
Premier.
Yes, this is very much a known issue and did not start with DS6. The issue is with the QT runtime rather than than Daz itself, so unless QT actually fix the issue in their API, we are not likely to get an official fix from Daz.
There is a quasi-workaround using a batch file to open Daz. You can use a batch file to set the QT environment settings. Adding 'set "QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.0" ' to a batch file that then calls daz studio will cause daz to ignore your desktop scaling settings. If you do this, your iray previews will be done at native resolution, and will therefore no longer have aliasing issues. However, this also effects the text, and even on a 32" monitor, I find the text hard to read without any scaling.
Good news though, I've created POC plugin for DS6 that can scale the text. So, stay tuned. I need to do some polishing before release.
I finally decided to try DS6 despite not being able to use a lot of the pluggins/scripts the I depend upon in DS4. Load 3 G8 figures put G9 hair on them, everything o.k. Then tried changing the eye color of one of the figures and bam, DS6 crashes. Kinda depressing.
Merged with the main DS 6 thread.
Which characters were in use? How did you chnage the eye colour? Did you get a crash report dialogue?
Another viewport / keyboard navigation problem I am excperiencing:
In DAZ 4 I have to click Orbit View with the Right Mouse Button and keep it pushed while hitting WAS or D, much alike a First Person Shooter does. But in DAZ 6 once I push a key the mouse inputs are no longer registered.
You guys make this more complicated than it needs to be. Just get Tinywall, which by default will allow nothing into or out of your box. Then whitelist whatever apps you want, e.g. your browser, Windows Update (even that's a risk these days, isn't it - you never know when it's going to download and enable Microslopware in the background), or whatever. Tinywall just adds and removes rules on Microsoft's Firewall for you. You can whitelist Daz's install program to get your content down, then remove it from the whitelist afterwards. You probably should whitelist Windows Defender, if you even trust that.
I think software phoning HQ is a plague these days. We don't have time or inclination to read user agreements, and we're not lawyers. There's also a premium on "data", especially as everyone seems to want the phrase "AI" in their marketing, even if they don't actually need it (why the hell does Daz have a chatbot in it? Bizarre - how about doing something clever with physics, IK, rendeirng and so forth, instead of generic chatbot slop). What they're fetching and what they do with the data is really opaque, and personally I don't have the bandwidth to micromanage software, so I just block everything.
You know that Warhole "15 minutes of fame" thing. Well there's a new one: in the future nobody will have 15 minutes of privacy.
I've been quite surprised, when putting some question about doing somethng in DS into Google search (as the DAZ site serach is pants), expecting to get links to forum articles etc, that since Google search started opening with an answer from Google AI, their AI is actually really good at answering my questions on how to do this and that in DS, what could be causing such-and-such etc. It's even offered to and then written DS scripts to do things for me. So I don't know why DAZ need their own AI chatbot - the one time I used it out of curiosity i got a much better answer from the Google AI.
Which reminds me ...
One ... irritation, let's call it, with DS6 is that every now and then I have a session when, if I go to render a scene for the first time, the render window opens, white, as usual; then after a few moments it goes to the empty transparent display as usual, then at the moment the render should first start appearing, it just acts as if the completely blank render is finished, with the buttons to save or close the empty render. But if I then hit render again, I get the proper render. And then it keeps doing this - each first attempt, appears to end at the moment the render should appear as its first iteration, then immediate second render attempt it renders.
As far as i can see from the log, on each first blank attempt it runs out of memory, but it doesn't say that, it just goes to end-of-render with the render empty. Then second attempt it renders. This is, to me, bizarre behaviour. I thought that if there's not enough GPU memory it's supposed to hand off to the CPU. Why is it producing a failed blank render without saying so, then using CPU when asked to render again, but just repeatedly doing this?
And a presumably related thing I get, if I turn the CPU off for rendering in Hardware, is that It may start, get up to iteration 64, say, then goes back and starts again, just repeatedly running from iteration 1 to 64, and again and again and again.
It does not appear to me to be programmed correctly in how to deal with running out of GPU memory.
So these chatbots, like GPT and Grok are pretty good at things like that. Google's is actually the worst of them. I sub both the former for work (I'm a software dev). They both do excellent code reviews. I used to spend ages trying to get answers to technical questions on Stackoverflow, but these days I can just ask a chatbot (as all of them have scraped all of it anyway).
We get constant pressure from upper management to get "AI" into our software but they rarely have the first clue what they want it for. It's just specmanship. It's quite often the case that a regular algorithm will do as well or better than whatever they want AI to do. Still, as a dev it's not for me to argue business cases. I just do what I'm told... within reason.
Well I haven't been inclined to use AI, other than the fact that Google started putting AI answers first when doing a Google search (of which i wa an early adopter back before 2000). And when my phone started misbehaving, I did ask Microsoft Copilot on my laptop about it, which led to a conversation of some length with it asking me to do various tests and report the results. Both witht hat and the Google AI on DS, they're very verbose, not just answering the question but explaining in detail.
The Google Ai made out that it was very chastened and apologetic when I asked for any DS products containing scripts to do something I needed, it said there weren't any and offered to write some, but then only an hour later I happend to stumble on a product in the store that did contain scripts to do what I wanted and told it so. Out of curiosity as to what it would say, I asked it if it would now remember this new information. It actually came out with a lengthy reply explaining all sorts of things about how the AI systems work, to then conclude with saying it therefore would remember during any continuation of that converstaion, but not beyond that.
I came back to Daz after many years and installed everything it threw at me. Studio 4.5 worked as expected, but 6 gave me problems. First, it does not accept my credentials, although 4.5 , DIM and the Daz site do. After trying it out by doing a render, which took forever and never finished, I cancelled the rendefr and closed down 6.5. As it was closing, it gave a dying gasp that it had encountered a fatal fault and crashed, taking Windows Explorer with it.
I lost my taskbar and had a lot of trouble re-activating Explorer and the task bar.
My question is, is it worth using 6, what are the advantages over 4.5. Can 6 be uninstalled it not worth keeping?
IMO no! Not at all, unless you are using a RTX 50xx GPU.
It won't do any harm having it installed. 6 Loads scenes and figures quicker than 4.
I agree, Google AI has been helpful for me as well. Even though it's a slog when the data starts to drift within the same convo (when it forgets it told me to do something and latter gives me instructions to do the opposite).
Yea Google AI won't remember anything beyond the chat either. i mean the one good thing i guess is that unlike a real programmer/dev/SME, it won't eventually snap at you for being TSTL (I joke but the fact that it doesn't lose patience is nice)