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Microsoft broke rendering

Jack of SpadesJack of Spades Posts: 104
in Daz Studio Discussion

Last night I got an unskippable Windows 11 update to my Nvidia drivers. After restart, DAZ Studio could no longer see my RTX 5000 Ada cards (both Studio 4 and 6-beta showed the problem). Fortunately, I saved my last manual download of working drivers, because this isn't the first time Microsoft has done this to me.

Mostly posting this as a warning to others.

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,531

    Thanks.  I'm still on Win10, maybe should plan on staying there.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,733

    You probably don't want Windows doing updates to the NVidia drivers. Always download them separately and keep them around for manually rolling back to an older version. (and keep copies off line in case windows gets truly messed up.)

  • DannisWritesDannisWrites Posts: 53

    I panic jumped from Win 11 to Linux Mint Cinnamon in April 2026 because of the drive-killer update. I'm very happy with Linux but still trying to figure out how to run DAZ and VUE 2024 on there. I have a VM and am in the process of moving stuff around so I can format my HDDs ext4 instead of NTFS. I think then I'll be able to run them. Anyone else trying to run DAZ in Linux? I think a lot more of us are going to make the jump. So far a surprising number of my video games run without too much trouble on Steam, but we plan to buy the Steam version of Horizon 6 later this year. In the meantime I'm sweating it out hoping I can get DAZ to run. I'm not good enough with Blender and learning new things are very hard due to memory problems. Disability is the pits. Good luck to y'all. BTW my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3600 with 12 GB VRAM. I'm having no problems with GIMP or Canva since the switch. GIMP, Blender, LibreOffice are Linux native so seamless transition. OBS is flaky but works for livestreaming on Twitch for me without addons. DaVinci is Linux native but I haven't been able to figure it out, but I'm not good with it to begin with. I'm over the moon that my files are no longer disappearing. With literally 4.3 million files on my 6 TB internal drive and millions on 2 other drives, I can't afford to be bleeding files. The MS forums are very quiet about missing files when all of us should be up in arms about it! Amazon Photos stole model files out of my 3D directories, many from free sites not available now, with no foldering etc, so I'm very unhappy. It shouldn't delete the originals out of their folders! OneDrive and Google Drive also did this. So, very unhappy with Windows.

  • TimberWolfTimberWolf Posts: 368

    @DannisWrites

    Daz Studio 4 and 6 both work on pretty much every modern Linux distro (under WINE) as well as they do in Windows. However, as you are running a Debian-based distro the built-in Nvidia denoiser won't work - you'll have to use a post-process one such as the Intel Open-Denoiser if you need it, but that's the only thing that doesn't work as you would expect. None of us who run Linux have been able to solve that issue to date but that doesn't mean it's impossible - we just haven't figured out the precise problem with Optix and Debian. The Studio denoiser works in Fedora and Arch-based distros without any problems.

    If you've ditched Windows completely, you're absolutely correct to change your drives' file format away from NTFS but there are some gotchas when moving your Daz content to the ext4 format relating to case-sensitivity. These can be resolved but your content drive really needs to be reformatted and made case-insensitive in ext4 before you start copying your Daz files over.

    There is a discussion here - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/60901/daz-studio-and-linux - so if you run into any problems post something there and you'll be able to find help. Do be aware that the process of getting Studio to work in Mint is not quite as straightforward as getting games to work in Steam but if you have even a passable working knowledge of Linux at this point it shouldn't be too difficult for you. Linux Mint is a great choice for someone new to Linux so have a look at that discussion, maybe starting from about 15 pages or so back from the most recent one, and if you're still scratching your head  or  a bit lost - just ask.

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,218

    I hadn't updated my driver in a while and did last week with the Nvidia app

    D|S survived but it broke Octane Render 4 Carrara

    it took me 4 tries to find a legacy one that worked

    so won't be doing that again in a hurry

    I am likely stuck on D|S4.27 anyway so not needing updates

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