Is this good enough?
Jonsmae
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Is a Laptop with the Intel Core i5-8th gen processor, NVIDIA GTX 1050 and 8gb RAM good enough to run DazStudio properly?
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More, bigger, better is always the answer, but what you have, whilst not the best, is far from the worst and will allow you to use th eprogram and do some reasonably complex scenes. If I was pushed into saying what to change I'd say add 8GB more RAM.
I'm going to differ with @SimonJM and say that laptop is barely enough. The GPU has sufficient Vram to render little more than a single character with clothing and hair. With Windows overhead, the 8GB ram will require frequent use of virtual ram to do anything.
Personally, if you're serious about Studio, I wouldn't spend the money on this configuration.
A 1050 only has 2 gb of VRAM and 640 CUDA. Even if you get a scene to fit on the GPU it will render pretty slowly.
I feel qualified to comment because my laptop is essentially similar to yours : not sure about the processor, but same graphic card and same RAM. It's "good enough" indeed, but not to run DS "properly". I've been doing renders for close to a year with it, so, you can. However, almost all scenes are run by the CPU, apart from relatively simple scenes in 3Dlight, that the video card can handle. So, rendering times are going to be long. Not just that : with semi-complex scenes, working in the viewport itself becomes slow (you might have to wait before being able to select another item, or for a change to be implemented), and an Iray view (to see what you just changed looks like) takes a long time. It's very inconvenient because any change becomes painfully long. Some environments alone push my laptop to its limits. Recent characters, hair (hair are often "heavier" than the character himself), items, etc... are quite "heavy" and I would say that 2 G8 characters with hair, clothes and a not too complex environment is acceptable (but still cumbersome and very slow), more is pushing. With older characters and items in 3Dlight, it can handle much more, though.Also, I pretty much can't do anything else with my computer when it's runnig a render. It "eats" all its capacity. It also sometimes overheat when rendering.
If it's the computer you happen to already have, I would say it's fine, as I said I have been using it for almost one year and did tons of renders with it. If you intend to *buy* it for this purpose, I would say no, since if you're like me, you'll be frustrated by its limitations, will want a better one and your purchase will be a waste. I would aim for 8 GB of VRAM (4 GB would make almost no difference with what you have : you still couldn't render most scenes on GPU), 16 GB of RAM and preferably not a laptop. I'm going to soon buy a new computer, precisely to use DS, and that's the minumum I will envision.