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Random black screens when redering

jb16jb16 Posts: 52
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Hey, everyone!

So I hope someone is experiencing this as well. I've been getting random black screens when I'm rendering in Daz. This has started happening when I installed the new Nvidia driver update. The scenes are normal looking with just 2 Genesis 3 male and female figures and HDRI lighting. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,065

    Is this the same scene(s) rendering black sometimes and correctly at others, or are some scenes consistently rendering black?

  • jb16jb16 Posts: 52

    Perhaps you didn't understand what I meant. The render doesn't come out as black. Render comes out as normal, but I get black screen during rendering.

    And they are normal scenes that didn't go black before but now they are causing display to turn black and when the display does come back on, Daz crashes. 

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,065

    Ah, that does sound like a driver issue - if it isn't hardware.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857

    ...that is my thought as well.  I'm using an old 1 GB GPU to drive dual displays and will get this happening at times as well. Some times instead of black the viewport goes white (also happens when loading large scenes). When I tried a newer driver I got frequent BSODs (which in the system logfile mentioned it could not find a certain game's configuration file [I don't do games]) so I rolled back to the previous one and have been using it ever since.

    Wondering if it's not a case of the old card just getting "old".

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    Installing the latest Nvidia driver update is often a "less than optimum" choice. Nvidia is known for driver updates that cause about as many problems as they fix. Generally best not to update an Nvidia driver unless you are having issues that the driver specifically fixes.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    I get that occasionally as well. When the screen recovers, do you see a "graphics driver crashed then recovered" alert in the system tray?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857
    ...never thought to check that.
  • jb16jb16 Posts: 52
    kyoto kid said:

    ...that is my thought as well.  I'm using an old 1 GB GPU to drive dual displays and will get this happening at times as well. Some times instead of black the viewport goes white (also happens when loading large scenes). When I tried a newer driver I got frequent BSODs (which in the system logfile mentioned it could not find a certain game's configuration file [I don't do games]) so I rolled back to the previous one and have been using it ever since.

    Wondering if it's not a case of the old card just getting "old".

    Thing is, I have a GTX 1060 (6GB) which, in my opinion, is good enough to drive somewhat large scenes without any problems. I guess it is then a driver issue. I'll try and roll back the drivers to the previous version, or maybe take a break from Daz and wait for a new driver to fix this. (hopefully).

     

    fastbike1 said:

    Installing the latest Nvidia driver update is often a "less than optimum" choice. Nvidia is known for driver updates that cause about as many problems as they fix. Generally best not to update an Nvidia driver unless you are having issues that the driver specifically fixes.

    Yeah, I didn't have a problem with Daz with the previous driver, but some games were giving me weird FPS lag issues. So I thought I should update and that would fix the FPS issues. Turns out, FPS issues are resolved, but Daz issues began to rise.

     

    SpottedKitty said:

    I get that occasionally as well. When the screen recovers, do you see a "graphics driver crashed then recovered" alert in the system tray?

    No, the display driver doesn't crash. I don't get any pop-ups.

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