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Daz Launches minimized and will not maximize

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,234

    Did you ever set DS to open on a different monitor, and now that monitor is turned off? Maybe when you maximize DS it is going to the other monitor where you can't see it.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    Your existinmg content directory set up has nested content directories, though, which is undesirable.

    2025-02-02 15:57:20.411 [WARNING] :: D:\DAZDevel\Hudson\HUDSON_HOME\jobs\NB_Studio_Trunk\workspace\src\sdksource\general\dzcontentmgr.cpp(1851): Nested directory encountered while adding a content folder: F:/DAZ/Jack/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library : F:/DAZ/Jack/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library

    That is,

    F:/DAZ/Jack/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library
    F:/DAZ/Jack/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library

    you really need to consolidate them or move the My Daz 3d Library to a location outside the My Library folder and link that instead or take everything except the Applications folder from My Library and paste that in a new location/with a new name that you select as a content directory.

  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24

    I didn't ever run a two-monitor setup, though that's not a bad thought.  It's definitely minimizing.

    And yes.  I have some scenes to catch up on, but un-nesting those directories is on my immediate to-do list.

  • aaronjproductions13aaronjproductions13 Posts: 5

    Yeah, this same issue happened to me just now, I tried restarting it, uninstalling/reinstalling and still the UI doesn't show. I get the intro "quick menu" like it usually gives but nothing else.

    i can apparently load my characters like normal however nothing else. I just get that minimized window. It was working just fine until then.

  • aaronjproductions13aaronjproductions13 Posts: 5

    aaronjproductions13 said:

    Yeah, this same issue happened to me just now, I tried restarting it, uninstalling/reinstalling and still the UI doesn't show. I get the intro "quick menu" like it usually gives but nothing else.

    i can apparently load my characters like normal however nothing else. I just get that minimized window. It was working just fine until then.

    sorry, it says I can load my characters my bad

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    Did you try the clean launch test from the previous page?

  • aaronjproductions13aaronjproductions13 Posts: 5

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Did you try the clean launch test from the previous page?

    yeah, that got it to work again. Thought I messed something up while saving a cartoon shader for my Genesis 8 figures.

    dunno what I did but I fixed it 

  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24

    Now it's opening minimized even on a clean launch...

  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24

    Both this time and last time it was a crash after rendering, and both times it was just after shortly after getting notice that Windows would be updating (and before I'd actually done the update).

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    Windows updates that are pending can, apparently, cause issues - if your applications are closed anyway why not let it do its thing and see if that avoids issues?

  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24

    That was step one.  Step two was another re-install.  No dice either way.  Is there some way to wipe any traces of Daz3D from my machine so I can start again?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    Try removing

    %appdata%/daz 3d/studio4/

    and see if it opens then (withour most settings - I would not delete the folder but rather rename it).

  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24
    edited March 18

    I scrubbed absolutely everything named "Daz" from my computer (including the folder you specified), restarted it, re-downloaded DIM and installed it, restarted, installed Daz Studio and everything DIM said to, restarted again...and nothing.  Clean launch won't work, either.

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  • daleheydalehey Posts: 24

    SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK GETS ME IN!  I don't know why DAZ always opens minimized, but after doing Shift+Right Click the first time, it minimizes and maximizes normally.  I should just have to remap my drives and I'll be good to go.  Thanks, Richard!  I'll see if I can't take care of those nested directories while I'm fixin' stuff.

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