Windows 11 or My Laptop problem with Daz? (Resolved)
Domino Prime
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I don't have much knowledge about computers. So, bear with me.
My laptop is a bit old but I've been using Daz for about 2 years with Windows 10. I was fine even with the 8 GB of RAM I had. I can create a scene with 2 characters with clothes, hairs and some simple environment with that. I mainly work with the denoiser. I stay in Daz version 4.21 because starting 4.22, Denoiser stopped working. I thought my laptop couldn't keep up with newer versions. I upgraded my RAM couple of months ago. Now, I have 24 GB of RAM and I can add more stuff to my scenes. I use Scene Optimizer too.
A few days ago, my laptop went frozen. So, I forced shut down and when I opened it again, it went black screen and had to show to the professionals. They tried to find the solution and ended up with blue screen.
They changed my SSD and they had to reinstall Windows (dunno, this is the right word in technical terms. I just write the term which is similar to my language). They didn't reinstall Windows 10. It's 11. My laptop is up and running again.
But when I started working with Daz, Denoiser was not kicking in. I am using the same method with only one character with nothing attached. So, I searched around the internet and got the idea of updating the Nvidia driver to the Studio driver. Done it and Denoiser back to work again. I continued my work; everything was ok until now. Denoiser stopped working again. I didn't add any new things to the scene. I tested with a new scene with a single character but the denoiser is nowhere to kick in. I noticed that other programs like Potplayer and even This PC are sometimes frozen for no reason.
Should I roll back to Windows 10 because anything that changed is my operating system or is it just my laptop broken somewhere?
I am at work so the picture I attached was my laptop model info from the internet.
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Which nVidia driver are you using? Sometimes the newest is not the best - though the older ones do have a serious security hole if you are working online.
The Highlights thread ( https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/706001/daz-studio-4-23-0-x-general-release#latest for the General Release) gives the minimum required driver - in this case 537.13 - but as I said, the older drivers do have a significant security issue so you may not want to go that far back on a system connected to the Internet.
What kind of security issue? Please enlighten me.
Also, I don't think I can use Daz 4.23 version. As I mentioned before, I rely too much on the Denoiser because I think it is faster for my system. I tried 4.22 when it came out. It won't start the process of denoising at all. So, I stopped updating since. I'm still sticking to 4.21.
The denoiser is still there, but it needs the render to happen in the GPU - it doesn't support CPU. Hence the discussion of drivers.
I think Daz 4.21 is outdated for my new operating system. I currently updated to 4.23 and everything is back to normal for now. Thank you for your time and your replies, my friend.