Yes, if the files are not being found then the process does take longer as DS has to wait for a timeout each time. Support is usually able to fix these, though I did have one that they simply gave up on and made DIM/Daz Central/Manual-only

jason1593 said:

I'm having this same issue, the same thing happens if I try to login on studio too, central will let me login, but not the others apparently there's a few others having this happen too

Wow.  I tried to login from DS and exact same problem.  Studio won't login at all.  Someone in another thread said DAZ support isn't even responding for 4-6 weeks.  Which means I am screwed now because I bought this PC specifically for the project I am working on.

Geminii23 said:

So I am on a brand new Windows 10 pc.  I am trying to get DAZ installed properly and so far I am really stuck.  I didn't want to use DAZ Central, but DIM will not load.  I can get it to start in Work Offline mode only.  If I try to login and hit start the app just disappears.  This is really frustrating.

Same here.

Richard Haseltine said:

Well, I wouldn't recommend using the stand-aone installer for DS then installing DIM, but that certainly shouldn't make it crash. You can use DIM offline for most things - just download the zips and put them in the DIM downloads folder - but again, this should nto be needed.

What method would you advise to install everything?  Are you saying that I should download DS and then install DIM, go into offline mode and install DAZ studio that way? Something is clearly not working with DIM on my Windows 10.  I am able to launch the MAC version with no problems.  I don't even want to bother with Daz Central cause it seems to offer zero control over where stuff goes.  Also I would have to sit here and click on each product 1 at a time to install. That will take me weeks with the amount of content I have purchased over the years.

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz Central should hafea llowed tou to choose the drive to use, though it then puts everything in the same place within the target location. Unfortunately I think it's likely that your attempts to clean things up have now broken some hidden setting - at this point, assuming you don't want to do a system reinstall, you should probably open a support ticket to ask for help with doing a full reset.

Yup, I was thinking the exact same thing.  So last night I did a full system reset.  This is a brand new machine and the only thing I am trying to install right now is DAZ, so I didn't have anything to lose but time. Now this is a 100% clean installation of Windows 10.  And guess what...  

Same problem.  DIM doesn't work at all.  Jeez.

I followed TenTen71's instructions precisely.  I installed DAZ Studio 4.15 from the stand alone installer which I know includes PostgreSQl CMS.  I went through each step he detailed with launching DAZ first time.  Put it my activation key.  Stayed in offline mode, etc.  Then I installed DIM and followed his steps.  Went in Offline mode and made changes as instructed.  Then I tried to login with my account and DIM does same thing as before.  It just vanishes after you hit Start button.  Like it is being blocked by a popup blocker. I checked in Task Manager with Windows to see if I can find anything there on what is going on but don't see anything. I also checked the Log file in DIM, but can't see any real error.  I'm including the log file in case it helps.

I opened a support ticket last night. But who knows when anyone might get back to me.

Daz Central should hafea llowed tou to choose the drive to use, though it then puts everything in the same place within the target location. Unfortunately I think it's likely that your attempts to clean things up have now broken some hidden setting - at this point, assuming you don't want to do a system reinstall, you should probably open a support ticket to ask for help with doing a full reset.

I'm having this same issue, the same thing happens if I try to login on studio too, central will let me login, but not the others apparently there's a few others having this happen too

Thursday's Child bear says this on the Product Page:

Compatible Software: Daz to Blender Bridge, Daz to Unity Bridge, Poser

Install Types:

•  Daz Connect DIM Manual Install

SKU:28663

Them Bones says this on the Product Page:

Compatible Software: Poser

Install Types:

• Daz Connect DIM Manual Install

Anfy said:

Di per me è comunque un mezzo miracolo che riesca a far funzionare DAZ Studio, a duplice titolo: che ho - da arruffone - capito le funzionalità di quasi tutte le tab dell'interfaccia di default, in più sono ho preso a sfruttare estensivamente i poco amati DAZ Central e Smart Content, che per me hanno cambiato parecchio l'approccio a questo programma (prima non trovavo un tubo); nonché nel senso che lo stesso giri sulla mia vecchia macchina con risultati in termini velocistici tutto sommato accettabili (non sempre, ma generalmente sì) e con "solo" qualche crash sporadico.

Perciò non mi preoccupo più di tanto per la DForce che funziona, a me, malino: pazienza, magari quando potrò permettermi la 3090 o 3080 TI le cose andranno meglio (lo so che non è così, ma almeno avrò una RTX).

Se vuoi un consiglio per cui mi ringrazierai negli anni a venire  lascia perdere smart content (che di smart ha solo il nome) e usa la semplice content library. Te la puoi organizzare ESATTAMENTE come pare a te, non ti fa sorprese auto aggiornando la roba a casaccio e ci metti dentro anche tutta roba che compri o scarichi da altri store. L'unica cosa è che se hai una libreria molto nutrita ti ci vuole un po' per sistemare la roba la prima volta. Ovviamente ogni volta che installi qualcosa di nuovo te lo devi categorizzare a mano, ma lo scopo è proprio quello.

DAZ Central io lo uso solo per ricordarmi cosa ho acquistato perché ci sono le figure, per il resto lascia perdere e usa DIM

Anfy said:

Di per me è comunque un mezzo miracolo che riesca a far funzionare DAZ Studio, a duplice titolo: che ho - da arruffone - capito le funzionalità di quasi tutte le tab dell'interfaccia di default, in più sono ho preso a sfruttare estensivamente i poco amati DAZ Central e Smart Content, che per me hanno cambiato parecchio l'approccio a questo programma (prima non trovavo un tubo); nonché nel senso che lo stesso giri sulla mia vecchia macchina con risultati in termini velocistici tutto sommato accettabili (non sempre, ma generalmente sì) e con "solo" qualche crash sporadico.

Perciò non mi preoccupo più di tanto per la DForce che funziona, a me, malino: pazienza, magari quando potrò permettermi la 3090 o 3080 TI le cose andranno meglio (lo so che non è così, ma almeno avrò una RTX).

DAZ Central è un omicido impunito. Usa il DIM che è MOOOOOOOOOLTO meglio. O usa Connect da dentro DAZ Studio, se proprio non vuoi essere troppo dispersivo...

Nel DIM puoi gestire davvero tutto su un'interfaccia semplice, puoi addirittura verificare che non ci siano pacchetti danneggiati o file mancanti senza dover disinstallare e reinstallare i prodotti nel dubbio. Inoltre le cartelle sono chiare e tutti i cambiamenti effettuati alle librerie vengono trasferiti in DAZ Studio immediatamente. Puoi anche decidere se tenere dei backup dei pacchetti scaricati, spostarli e reimportali quando e come vuoi.
Con DAZ Connect, per contro, puoi avere i pacchetti e i metadata aggiornati in "tempo reale", vedere cosa hai installato e cosa no e nel caso di qualcosa di mancante in una scena, installarlo immediatamente prima di caricarla del tutto. Inoltre puoi effettuare acquisti sullo store DAz direttamente dallo Smart Content e vederli immediatamente nelle tue librerie.

In DAZ Central ci sono i disegnini. Fine.

I downloaded and tried to install DAZ studio via daz central. But daz studio install over 54% and again say to install> I tried delete all file and reinstall. Nothing happens. Any advices?

Di per me è comunque un mezzo miracolo che riesca a far funzionare DAZ Studio, a duplice titolo: che ho - da arruffone - capito le funzionalità di quasi tutte le tab dell'interfaccia di default, in più sono ho preso a sfruttare estensivamente i poco amati DAZ Central e Smart Content, che per me hanno cambiato parecchio l'approccio a questo programma (prima non trovavo un tubo); nonché nel senso che lo stesso giri sulla mia vecchia macchina con risultati in termini velocistici tutto sommato accettabili (non sempre, ma generalmente sì) e con "solo" qualche crash sporadico.

Perciò non mi preoccupo più di tanto per la DForce che funziona, a me, malino: pazienza, magari quando potrò permettermi la 3090 o 3080 TI le cose andranno meglio (lo so che non è così, ma almeno avrò una RTX).

Hi.  Yes.  So far I've tried to install DIM and DAZ from stand alone installers and have tried to install DAZ through DAZ Central. DIM will only open in offline mode which is useless.  I have now tried 3 or 4 times to uninstall and re-install everything.  The results have been a disaster.  Sometimes DAZ won't even show up in the Windows Start menu as being installed.  And twice DAZ Central installed DAZ on both my C and D drives.  In this latest attempt I uninstalled everything and then went into regedit to try and ensure DAZ was totally removed everywhere.  I tried to reinstall and DAZ is now totally empty.  It didn't install even the basic Smart Content.  And once I tried to install any content I was pretty pissed off to see that it is sticking everything in the Public folder. And I can't understand how something so basic as specifiying to install my content on a second drive is this difficultto acocmplish for DAZ.

I am so frustrated right now.  I just bought a brand new Alienware.  This was not a cheap investment.  And the only reason is for DAZ. DAZ is basically useless in MAC now because iRay will only work with Nvidia. But the fact that I can't simply install the damn program, nevermind specify an external or secondary drive for my content library makes me want to scream right now. Even if I can get the damn program installed and working, I have almost 1 TB of content that will not fit on the system drive in the public folder.  This is just ridiculous.  

Geminii23 said:

So I am stuck with a weird problem.  I mistakenly tried using Daz Central and it defautled to create everything on my C drive.  I do not want any content on this drive. Just the app.  So I tried uninstalling everything and then downloaded the DIM.  I keep trying to use it but when I try to login (it seems to have pre-filled in my Daz Central info) the app just vanishes like it isn't even loading.

That's weird ...

Did you try to start DIM in Offline mode and go through all the settings?

So I am on a brand new Windows 10 pc.  I am trying to get DAZ installed properly and so far I am really stuck.  I didn't want to use DAZ Central, but DIM will not load.  I can get it to start in Work Offline mode only.  If I try to login and hit start the app just disappears.  This is really frustrating.

So I am stuck with a weird problem.  I mistakenly tried using Daz Central and it defautled to create everything on my C drive.  I do not want any content on this drive. Just the app.  So I tried uninstalling everything and then downloaded the DIM.  I keep trying to use it but when I try to login (it seems to have pre-filled in my Daz Central info) the app just vanishes like it isn't even loading.

Is there any fix for the fact that the smart content tab just refuses to be accurately sorted? I really like the smart content because I'm a visual person, but the sorting is completely broken, especially the ones I'd use most often: release date and order date.

i.e. if I sort by Release Date it shows:

Rocky Place (Released 2020-08-19)
Path Between the Cliffs (2020-03-29)
Olive Grove - Ancient Olive Trees (2020-03-29)
Fantasy Forest (2020-03-29)
Arbor Mortis (2020-07-29)

If I sort by Order Date, it shows

Sci-Fi Crew Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s) (Bought 2020-11-06)
Ultimate Pose Master (2021-03-21)
dForce EXzela Long Hair (2020-06-17)
200 Plus Head and Face Morphs (2019-04-23)
iRadiance Crystal Sparkle Rich HDRI (2020-03-29)

If I buy something new, I'm excited to use it! But instead I have to manually search it through a massive catalogue. Combined with the fact that some products are still missing pictures from the March Madness, and I keep getting the placeholder for the read me error on a bunch of things until I refresh countless times, and a ton of recent items are in the lost and found for some reason, and  it's just such a drag.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I really don't want to lose the functionality of the SmartContent tab. Currently using Daz 4.15.0.2 Pro, 64 bit, Windows 10 Home (10.0.19042). I primarily install through the Smart Content tab except for some utilities that require DIM. Not using Daz Central to install.

Yeah I have 2 monitors, It's not appearing on either, I just quickly made a new account to login to on my pc, tried to login to my daz account on daz studio there, it did the same thing, as soon as I opened it in offline mode, it opened all the way, so it appears that whenever my daz account logs in, it crashes and closes studio or install manager down, but doesn't affect central

Daz Studio Not Opening After Splash Art 
I've recently been trying to open up Daz Studio, but the splash art appears for a brief moment then goes away again, with this included gif from using my gyazo software https://gyazo.com/c66876e4cf8521f96576cf25aa332fdb this is an example of what happens, what kind of fix can I do for this?

I've tried

• uninstalling and reinstalling
• removing my files (gonna hate to reinstall all again)
• Uninstalling daz central and install manager
• I've made sure graphics card drivers are fully up to date

Also to note, When I try to sign into my Install Manager, it does the exact same thing, I press sign in and it just closes itself. Daz Central will load, that's about the limits of it all

Hi

I've submitted a support ticked, but it says it might take 4-6 weeks for them to respond. So hopefully someone here can help.

A few months ago I set up Daz Studio on my laptop. But it's not really got the punch I need. Setup was fine no issues.

However, I've brought a new desktop: 

 This is a new PC (by new I mean 2 days old!) - 

Running Windows 10, i5-11400 (2.6GHz processor), 40GB ram, NIVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super, 256GB SSD drive, 1TB External drive.

I've downloaded Daz Central, and installed just the Studio (4.15.0.2) and Genisis 8 Essentials. Nothing else yet. 

Program loads fine. I then enter my login details and click connect. Then it shuts down. No error messages or anything.  This happened every time. So I re-installed. Yep same thing again.

So I selected the offline option. I managed to import a model, and then after a few minutes it shut down again.

I then tried using the Daz Install Manager, with my login details when I press "Start" it just dissappears.

I'm at a complete loss. My laptop only had 8GB ram, and an on board graphics card and it was generally OK. Although I'd rather not have to use my laptop when I've brought a shiny new PC.

I've attached the log file.

Any advice welcome.