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  • LaraRebootedLaraRebooted Posts: 27

    inquire said:

    Another update to DAZ Studio 4 Has been released. Does it run any better than the previous version? I haven't updated, but the version I'm using, the previous version, crashes all the time in emulation mode on my Mac studio, with Tahoe as the OS. If I update, will there be an improvement? Does anyone know?
    The updates, I Have found, sometimes make things worse.

    My experience with it is somewhat negative. Since I upgraded, I've had a lot of weird little things happen with the system suddenly highlighting everything anywhere near my cursor as if I was clicking on things (which I wasn't), and I've had a higher number of freezes and crashes. In fact, I had bought the RSSY 3DL to Iray converter, and any time I try to run it, Daz just closes immediately. Still no ability to use filament/filatoon tools, and an uptick in dForce explosions and simulation freezes. I'm kinda wishing I'd held off on upgrading. 

  • inquireinquire Posts: 2,436

    Thank you. I'm sorry I went up to the present version. I just don't think as 3-D cares about McIntosh users.

  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,791
    edited January 22

    inquire said:

    Thank you. I'm sorry I went up to the present version. I just don't think as 3-D cares about McIntosh users.

    They do, but the problem is that Apple has done some really severe changes that Qt4 does support ( and Studio 4 is built on Qt4 ), and the Qt company deprecated Qt4 years and years ago and wont bother fixing what is broken, as it is fixed in Qt6 (which DS 6 is built upon).

    Then we need to remember, Studio is stil free to use ( although content cost ), so they cannot just throw in a hoard of developers like other companies do and charge you $3K /year /seat for using it like the other big 3D companies do.

     

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,791

    And for crashing scripts, as I said before, that is most of the time ( what I have analyzed so far ), a problem with Rosetta2 emulator emulating a JS engine running JS with Qt signal and slots calls,
    Even loading an M4 ( causing the PowerLoader to activate) cashes, if Rosetta2 is unstable.
    Usually I run a script I know crashes with an unstable Rosetta2 as soon as I've started DS, then when it doesnt crash, after a few startups, I have a stable DS that runs.

     

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