Mac users
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Do you already know that mac users (or Safari users.....?I forgot it) can't use Install Menager anymore? If you try , your request will be rejects!
The say that Safari (or MAC) doesn't suppot anymore links written in those way. Sorry ,I don't remember the 4 letter precluding the auto installer.
I don't know how to use Install Menager if I don't start from the link in the DAZ product page !!
How do you fix this problem? May somebody teach to me how to do?
Many many thanks to everybody!
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I did a little test on my own computer and got a crash of DIM (Daz3d Install Manager) do to something unconnected to issues at hand. I then reopened DIM, clicked on the link and all was fine. Try that first, open DIm and then click on the link. Truthfully, when I use DIM I just download the manual download, place it ithe DIM download folder and tell DIm to install (I tend to install in batches)...
I don't quite understand what you are saying. I use Chrome, not Safari. I normally just run DIM. I don't use the browser first. Just out of curiosity, I loaded Chrome, and told it to download and install the Genesis 8 essemtials. Everything worked fine.
DIM works fine for me, always has. Safari too. 2012 iMac, MacOS 10.12.6 (Sierra)
To use DIM standalone, just run the app, login and click on the sync button.
Those folks that use a MAC- what should I shoot for as far as system requirements? Asking about LAMH Catalyzer it was suggested 16GB of RAM and a GPU with 4GB would be a good base. I'm a bit lower than this at the moment. Wondering if I should update my MAC from 2013 or get a new one. Thanks for any ideas!
If you are on a Mac, unless you get an earlier Mac Pro tower that lets you install your own GPU, or a late 2013 iMac, you will not be able to use the GPU for Iray acceleration, because Iray requires an NVidia graphics card and driver. Apple may change this down the line; it looks like they are moving towards supporting external graphics cards, but I wouldn't count on it.
If you get a new Mac, CPU Iray rendering will take longer than it would with NVidia GPU, but it's not intolerable for most scenes. I would recommend 32GB RAM if you can afford it, though.
I switched from Mac just for the NVidia reason. But I was without a graphics computer and didn't want to wait. GFirce is already putting out drivers to make NVidia cards compatible with Macs, but I didn't want to muck about with a custom rig.
So it looks like if you can wait, and gave the know how and/or money a Mac is still a good choice. Nothing seems wrong beyond the fact Safari is a funky browser. I'll likely switch back in a year or two depending on how well Mac decides to treat its graphics customers.
Thank you to everybody!!! I read your reply just now so I can't thank you before, I ' very grateful for your help: it's very precious to me. Now I need to sleep a few hours, but tomorrow I'll rean all your reply with great attention.
Marshian, I recently commissioned someone to customized a Mac Pro tower for me and it does a terrific job with Iray. I used to use an iMac, and while it would work with Iray, it was naturally slow and there wasn't much that could be done to speed things up. Renders that took 15+ hours on the iMac take between 5 and 20 minutes (depending on how complex they are) on the Mac Pro.
If you do get a new mac, DON'T pay for the Apple ram installed. Go to Ramjet.com and get the extra ram there. Mac ram literally takes 2 minutes to put in and their prices are less than half what Apple will charge you. Just open the case and click it in and shut the case. Whenever we get a new mac, we buy bare bones at Apple and then max it out at Ramjet. And its certified to work and be paired right for Apple's specs. I've used them for over a decade. Apple's ram prices are beyond ridiculous.
Thanks so much Zai! So good to get these kinds of tips:
Wow, thats huge Mary! One of these? : https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/ ;
Could you share what monitor you used?
edit/add: Just looked at your screencap. The mac pro is from 2010. Wow again! Found these: https://eshop.macsales.com/Search/SearchPromo.cfm?Ntk=Primary&N2=4294919859&Ns=P_ID|1&Ne=4294922318&N=100518+4294922309+4294919859&Ntt=OWCUsedMac
Marshian, yep the 6-core ones you've been looking at on MacSales.com are like mine. Like Zai said, don't buy things like ram directly from Apple. It's cheaper to shop elsewhere. As long as you're careful and look up how to do it, installing pretty much anything in these towers is fairly easy; they're basically designed that way. I've bought memory, hard drives, and even a laptop and a tower (refurbished) from MacSales.com and never had any problems. You might even be able to use a NVIDIA 1080 graphics card instead of the 980 I've got if NVIDIA has put out Mac drivers for the 1080. I'm not sure if they have. When I looked last year, the 980 was the only one with drivers for Mac. It's worth taking the time to shop around for the parts to save some money. Of course, this probably still cost more than it would to build a Windows computer with similar specs, but I like working on a Mac best so it was worth it to me. Just depends on what you like.
There are still scenes that need to cook longer (2-5 hours for the big ones for me) but it's a massive speed boost from what I saw with the iMac. I can get all my promos done faster and that gives me time to play and render scenes for my own amusement.
Oh, and I use a Dell UltraSharp U2715H 27'' monitor. I'm sure you could get pretty much any monitor you fancied to work with a tower setup, though.