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IF you haven't seen yet, daz install manager now has the Daz Studio Public Beta (4.12.0.47) Available for dl. 4.11 moved to release status. See the change log on daz for details (HERE)
I have installed it and for me it has shown two really big improvements:
1. The viewport is much, much faster. Instead of being totally black (depending on light source) when changing something, it is now a grainy pic transforming to a clear pic in a few seconds. This is a HUGE improvement as the workflow gets much snappier.
2. It uses less vram. I can now have HDRI+scene+3 G8F+Hairs etc without having to optimize the scene with deleting maps etc. A scene kicked-out by iray to CPU in 4.11 is accepted by GPU in 4.12. Thats great!
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I have 2 x 1080 ti, NOT an RTX card! My priorty now is to get an RTX GPU, which should make THE big difference as I understand it...Ok,so i still stuck at 4.10, if i want to update to 4.12,do i need download 4.11 first then 4.12 next,or i can directly download 4.12?
@deepedia It'll go to 4.12 just fine, but for 4.12 is the beta, it uses a different install location, it won't overwrite your public install unless you install over top that directory. I would do your beta and your public installs to different locations. I have 4.11 public release on one drive, 4.12 beta on another drive.
example:
(BETA)
"A:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 Public Build\DAZStudio.exe"(CONSUMER RELEASE)
"B:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DazStudio4\DAZStudio.exe"(i have like 10 drives, so i tend to separate my apps based on their class, games, graphics, productivity etc...)
A) You can partition drives. Each partition would have it's own drive letter.
B) you can connect an external drive enclosure and connect it via USB
C) any combination of the above.the only two drive letters you cannot assign are A: and B:...
These are permanently reserved for floppy drives...>the only two drive letters you cannot assign are A: and B:…
These are permanently reserved for floppy drives…Thanks for the new knowledge,i'm too young to realize that A: and B: is reserved for floppy drives, this answer why most drive begin at C:, so long i thought the reason drive begin at C: is hat C: stand for Computer lol
Well... many high-end boards have the ability to have more than 6 drives. My current motherboard can, in theory connect 9 drives, of different types. (8 SATA ports, 2 m.2 ports (which, ofc are shared with the SATA ports, so you'll take away from the regular SATA by using those), and one u.2 port, which can add another drive to the 8 existing SATA ports / m.2 ports.
So, 9 total. Which is pretty much filled up, except for the u.2 one - they're shit expensive, can't be bothered buying one.
Server boards with built-in or add-in cards for SAS can support a hell of a lot more.
I remember when the A: drive was a 5.25" floppy (and it really was floppy) and the B: drive wasn't really used for much of anything unless you happened to have a second floppy drive...
@ethiopia - default download folder for Install Manager is {system}\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\DownloadsIf you can access DAZ forums, try here
First off, A: and B: are not reserved for floppy drives, that is so like windows 3.1. Once microsoft saw that 24 drive letters wasn't enough, and windows didn't ride on DOS anymore, it was allowed. I've had Microsoft Exchange Clusters back in the day that we used all 26 letters (really messy)(until mount points in windows became a thing) lol... @tony0558.
@ethiopia, yeah, cheap pcie 6gb/s expansion card with 4 ports, box showed 2 external eSata ports, but guess i got jipped. You can get one for each unused pcie port (the short ones) get like 20 drives going. or get a raid controller, etc... the amount of drives you can host is limited to the depth of your pocket, size of your case, watts of your PSU and sata data and molex connections.also C: is a 1tb nvme m.2 drive on board, no cables. Lightning fast. boot time is like 5 seconds. my layout ( the two 6tb drives are usb for backups and such)
(NO CD/DVD ROM -- Haven't needed one for years)DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 2794 GB 1024 KB * Disk 1 Online 953 GB 0 B Disk 2 Online 489 GB 0 B * Disk 3 Online 953 GB 0 B Disk 4 Online 465 GB 1024 KB Disk 5 Online 931 GB 0 B Disk 6 Online 698 GB 1024 KB * Disk 7 Online 953 GB 0 B Disk 8 Online 223 GB 0 B Disk 9 Online 5589 GB 1024 KB * Disk 10 Online 5589 GB 0 B * Disk 11 Online 3726 GB 0 B * DISKPART> list vol Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D D Graphics NTFS Simple 698 GB Healthy Volume 1 G G DazLibrar NTFS Partition 2794 GB Healthy Volume 2 B Inland1TBFr NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy Volume 3 F Seagate Bac NTFS Partition 5588 GB Healthy Volume 4 RAW Partition 3725 GB Healthy Volume 5 S S Apps (SSD NTFS Partition 488 GB Healthy Volume 6 System Rese NTFS Partition 549 MB Healthy System Volume 7 C NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy Boot Volume 8 R R Games (SS NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy Volume 9 E E Steam NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy Volume 10 A A DazLibrar NTFS Partition 953 GB Healthy Volume 11 V V SSD VR NTFS Partition 223 GB Healthy Volume 12 Z Backups NTFS Partition 5588 GB HealthyThis is my rig right now, (missing the 1080ti, has the 1660ti as a temp, ribbon cable mounted), kinda a mess since i had been taking it apart over and over trying to squeeze more life out of the 1080ti (which happily has switched status at rma.gigabyte to repairing)
Why even release 4.11 when as soon as they do they put out a beta 4.12?
I'd like to try 4.12 beta, but questions:
1) can I run it on the same drive?
2) can I access my content without reinstalling everything like I can with 4.11beta and 4.10?John Lund has me interested now because of reason #2..
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