To move the application you will need to uninstall and reisntall it, and any plug-ins or other add-ons that isntall like software. Content you can do the same, and if you installed through DIM or Daz Central it's best to do so (you can, in DIM, edit the paths in the advanced settings then select everything in the Installed tab, right-click, and choose the option to reinstall using the current path. However you move the content you will need to tell DS where to look now - Edit>Preferences>Content tab>Content Directory Manager.

I tried all 3 methods, Daz Central, DIM and manual download, no luck with missing materials etc for Freja.

Just to save folks the bother.

It's been reported :)

Any idea when we can expect a fix? A bit frustrating when you get something new and cannot really use it. Be it a car, an electronic device, or a piece of DAZ content 

Apparently being fixed now..

I tried all 3 methods, Daz Central, DIM and manual download, no luck with missing materials etc for Freja.

Just to save folks the bother.

It's been reported :)

Any idea when we can expect a fix? A bit frustrating when you get something new and cannot really use it. Be it a car, an electronic device, or a piece of DAZ content 

I tried all 3 methods, Daz Central, DIM and manual download, no luck with missing materials etc for Freja.

Just to save folks the bother.

It's been reported :)

I tried all 3 methods, Daz Central, DIM and manual download, no luck with missing materials etc for Freja.

Just to save folks the bother.

Such a unique character!  Comes complete with a full set of Maps that are inactive, three skin SSS settings, three translucencies...and NOTHING ELSE!  If you're looking for a character unlike the rest of the gals in your creative stable, look no further than this stripped-down Norse maiden!

Seriously, I should have waited 24 hours, shouldn't I?  When WILL I learn?

Hey, you don't suppose this has anything to do with using Daz Central instead of DIM, does it?  I only ask because I've had problems with Daz Central from time to time that I never had with DIM.  Probably just me.

Funny thing I just learned about Daz Central: you can't download Poser files with it. Sooooo on a Product Library Page for a Poser product there is that prominent "Don't have Daz Central, Install Daz Central" for product where Daz Central doesn't work. LOL

File type still says "Daz Studio" for everything including Bryce files.

Inactive products still have no Readme or Product page information.

SIGH!

So had a negative experience with buying older Poser stuff.  DAZ Central is what my Product LIbrary is telling me to use to download them.  NOPE.  Unless there is a way to add a Poser label to the left side panel there is no way to download from there.  What I ended up doing was enabeling Poser in the DIM and got the files that way.  Very annoying DAZ!  Why would they direct me to install DAZCentral to download products that I cannot download from there?  This is a mess.  

You ran into the "new and improved" Product library ...

There is a whole thread about it: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/431921/not-a-fan-of-the-new-product-library-layout

Anyway: there are still Poser files to download.

Under that "Don't have DazCentral?" thingie, there are the usual download buttons.

At the moment ALL downloads are called the Type DazStudio (even Bryce files LOL), but if you download the zip for manual install or install manager ready you get what you need.

So had a negative experience with buying older Poser stuff.  DAZ Central is what my Product LIbrary is telling me to use to download them.  NOPE.  Unless there is a way to add a Poser label to the left side panel there is no way to download from there.  What I ended up doing was enabeling Poser in the DIM and got the files that way.  Very annoying DAZ!  Why would they direct me to install DAZCentral to download products that I cannot download from there?  This is a mess.  

Hello Everyone,

Just purchased and installed Alexandra 8 through Daz Central.

Product will not load in scene, Daz just hangs on 'reading asset'. Please help! This was an expensive purchase for me!

Best,

Dru

I used Daz Central

I have noticed that the JPG files are missing for those products. At least knowing that now I can replace the missing pictures, which make them show up properly. In one case the jpeg file was simply names wrongly. 

Are you saying you installed Daz Central, without installing Daz Studio?

I don't use Daz Central, but I'm pretty sure you need Daz Studio installed for it to work.

If I'm misinterpreting what ou're asking I apologize.

Hello everyone, I just installed the central daz and it does not start, when it is run, the following box appears

render process exited with code: 41, do you want to reload the page?

And so every time I open it, the application looks blank and I can't do anything but close it, hopefully you can help me with this, thank you very much

I used the Daz Central to install it.

I did find the pdf manual within Daz Studio. If I recall correctly it was installed in the content library, instead of the smart content library.

I'm not sure what you mean by installing it inside Daz Studio.

And thanks for your help.

You don'ty need Daz Central. I'm not sure about manual install for Daz Studio. I use DIM and it still works. At the very worst get DIM install DS through it and then go back to installing content manually.

I have been using Daz 4.10 and now find I have to have 4.11 or 4.12 in order to use dforce hair, such as what is found on that cute new kitten that I recently purchased Moshi.

My biggest question is what will happen to my current Daz and all the content I have installed if I install 4.11 or 4.12

My next biggest question is do I have to have Daz Central to download and install Daz...I am not a fan of that kind of install, I prefer manual. Also, I have been reading the forums and Daz Central has too many problems for me to risk using it. What other options are there?

No, take notice they did not do 600 iterations. The CPU added 174 iterations during this run, which significantly helped.

I'm not going to lie.  This thread is so confusing.  Just render the scene and tell us how long it took and what the setup was.  Shesh.

Perhaps they did not know it was on? I don't know. It got my attention because that time is like my 2x 1080tis, so I knew something had to be fishy as there is no way 2x 1070ti should match that. Then I saw the line with the CPU. This is actually pretty interesting because most of the time the CPU does't add much to Iray. But in this case whatever CPU it is did quite a bit of work and made a big impact on the final time.

Most of the people would even go as far as saying buying a top end CPU is a waste if you are doing Iray with GPU. This might suggest otherwise.

So what kind of CPU are you using there, EBF2003? Is this a new AMD Ryzen?

Can't quote exact gospel/verse on it at the moment, but if you go and read Iray's official documentation on how it handles load balancing, it has a mechanism where if a single Cuda device out of multiple active Cuda devices during a Photoreal render takes significantly longer than the others to transmit its assigned portion of converged pixels back for inclusion in the central framebuffer, Iray's scheduler assumes that something is wrong with that device and automatically RE-assigns it's current workload to the other Cuda devices in the system. What this effectively means is that once you get beyond a certain rendering performance difference between your CPU and GPU(s), Rendering WITH your CPU results in WORSE overall rendering performance than without since - unbeknownst to you (there is never any indication of any of this in the log file) your fast GPUs are constantly being tasked with double processing data that your CPU is already processing. Hence why EB2003 gets BETTER performance with his Xeon + 1070s. Whereas I, with my 8700K + Titan RTX, get WORSE performance with CPU also enabled.

Not trying to get too far off here, but the results of the Xeon are pretty interesting.

Having a slower device dropped makes sense, but then again it doesn't make sense with the different possible GPU combinations out there. There are people who have used the bottom of the barrel GPUs combined with high end GPUs that offered even greater gaps in performance. SY had a GTX 740 with a 980ti and they all played nice together. The 740 is garbage by any standard and there are CPUs that are faster than it, especially today. That's just one example. I had a 1080ti paired with a 970, and one time a 670. I could test that 670 out for kicks to see if it still works with a 1080ti.

I am surprised how well the 22 core Xeon hangs with the 1070tis. Its not really that much slower than a single 1070ti looking at the iteration counts. 1070tis are pretty solid cards for Iray, they are right there with 1080s in performance. It makes me VERY curious how well the new Ryzens handle Iray since they are clocked so much higher than any Xeon while still packing a good number of cores, core that have much better IPC than before.

I would live to see a Ryzen 12 core 3900X paired with a 2080ti or any GPU for that matter and see how they do.

I have a 980ti and a Threadripper 1950x (16/32). In Iray, the 980ti is around 30-40% faster and on occasions more. In Blender the 2.83 and on the Threadripper is at worst about the same, but often much faster, even 30-40% is not uncommon, and on occasions much more.

Hello,

where exactly can i find the installer for the 3dsmax DAZ bridge?

I can`t find it in my product library and not in DAZ Central of course. I can`t find any bridge plugins at all?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Meli

or you can remove Daz Central and keep DIM

choice is yours. From what I've seen DIM does more; it is good for finding stuff too.

Silly question I expect, LOL! Can I remove DIM if I now use Daz Central?