Windows 11 + DAZ3D softwares = working fine?
Imago
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Since the support to Windows 10 will end soon I have to step to Windows 11, I was wondering if anyone here already tried DAZ Studio, Carrara, Hexagon and all other DAZ3D stuffunder the new OS.
Someone could share their experience?
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I have DAZ Studio on Windows 10 and 11, and MacMini Pro M4 and MacBook Pro M1 and have no issues besides the ones expected for Apple OS vs a program written for Nvidia cards. And the new Alpha is happy on those computers too.
But understand this, I am not a power user, just someone who stumbles around and falls on her face at times. I have had to uninstall many of my other art programs from my Windows 10 computers because they ended up on the C: and it got maxed out. On Windows 11 I learned to put them on other drives and save the installers.
Daz works fine on Windows 11.
WIndows 11 has been out for 4 years now, so I am not sure I would describe it as a new OS. I have been using 11 for most of those 4 years, and it has worked fine with all the DS versions released during that time. I have run Hexagon and Carrara as well on 11, but very rarely, and they seemed fine to me, but I only used a fraction of what those softwares are capable of.
Ahahah, yes, I guess that's a bit wrong.
Thanks to everyone for the kind answers, now I'm a bit less worried about the "jump" from 10 to 11.
I spent 3 days pounding on Windows 11 to make it stop doing stuff I don't want it to do, like uploading my data to Microsoft. Daz Studio runs much as it did on Windows 10.
Thanks Richard and Valiska!
...when I finally have enough put away for my system upgrade, I will also be getting a DVD if Win 11 so I can do a clean manual install and expunge all the rubbish and "fluffware" I don't need prior before performing clean installs of all my software
I have had no problems either running recent versions of DS on my Windows 11 computer. Hexagon seemed to run fine too for the little I've used it on that computer.
Win11 should be a free upgrade from Win10.
I don't know your budget, but with some care you can upgrade any PC with less than 500$ and get a powerhouse. A good MoBo is about 80$ (120$ if you want a bit more sauce in it), a good Ryzen CPU is about 200-300$ and a good RAM kit is about 100$. You can reuse some of the old hardware (I'm still using the same SSD I got with a notebbok when Windows 7 was just launched, I simply upgrade the OS.
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You can even go "second hand" and save some more but you have to be really careful when buying stuff.
...still on WIn 7. I avoided both 8 and 10.
Need to upgrade my 13 year old system first (about a 1,200 USD expense) as it is not compliant with Win 11's TPM 2.0 requirement
The Bad Gateway errors are vicious today must have had about a ten hit me just trying to post this.
Windows 11 here, and I have no issues at all.
You know you can add a TPM chip to any MoBo? It costs about 10$. Your Motherboard must be REALLY old to not have that option.
Installing that chip is really easy, the connector looks like a normal USB connector, it has only one possible way to insert it so there's no chance you can install it the wrong way.
Once you have that chip installed you just need 4Gb of RAM and 64Gb of free disk space to install Win11.
My old machine, that I'm having to use at the moment due to a motherboard failure of my new DS machine, is a 2013 HP with Win7Pro I used at work until 2019, and apart from feeling very slow, it's great. There is a great deal less irritating eye candy than was present on the Win11 machine. The newest version of DS that can use the GTX 1060 GPU is DS4.15 due to Win7 nVidia drivers. I also have DS4.21 if I need to use G9. DS4.21 can't render with the GPU because of the Iray version needing a newer driver than is available for Win7, so if I need G9, it's gonna be slow (12 minutes min for a 512x512 image compared to 3mins with GPU).
Regards
Richard
Several comments I've read strongly suggest that DAZ Studio 4.24 and Windows 11 are not the closest of partners. After a day trying to produce simple renders (one character and an environment) on a brand-new Windows 11 laptop, I must agree. Happily, my old desktop runs Windows 10, which so far, has run DAZ Studio 4.24 mostly without objection.
...hmm isn't a 1060 Pascal generation? I have a Maxwell Titan-X (previous generation) and I am able to render on it in the 4.21.0.5 general Release as that version is still is based on Nvidia driver version 471.41 (the last stable version to support Win7)..
Here are the Nvidia driver requirements for the 4.21.0.5 General Release that were posted on October 2022 in the Daz Studio Discussion forum.