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Studio 4.8 Pro works better in Windows 7 than Windows 10?

LordGhoulLordGhoul Posts: 43
in Daz Studio Discussion

So I grudgingly took advantage of the "free" windows upgrade last week. After one failed attempt, windows installed. First thing I did was test studio 4.8 Pro and it seemed to work fine. This weekend I tried rendering a file with 10 (!) characters in it, all gen 3, and it crashed. Now this very same .duf rendered in windows 7, albeit slowly. So I did the usual things and checked for driver updates, updated my NVIDIA driver. Still no success. I've been putzing around with everything from bios video settings to pagefile sizes with moderate success, but still the big scene crashes. I've been with Microsoft support who tell me to reinstall studio (like they even know what studio is) but I do not have install files and no, I don't want to go to 4.9 thank you. Even if I did, I still want 4.8 to work at least as well in my "upgraded" windows as it did in windows 7 before going through another "upgrade"!

Sorry for the rant, and I do have a ticket with DAZ, so hopefully they can help otherwise its back to windows 7 unless some kind soul here has any advice for me!

Thanks,

Comments

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,293

    Are you sure this same scene renders in Windows 7?

    At any rate, Windows 10 is more proactive in shutting down processes that it deems can compromise system stability and security and DAZ with that must memory in use would be one of them.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    I experience crashes with certain 4.9 optimized characters renderung under Win 10. When I render the same scene in 4.9 Beta, it renders without a hitch.

    I opened a ticket about it a while ago, but DAZ Support wrote back that they are not looking into it as 4.8 is no longer supported.

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,616

    I have only one Win10 machine that I upgraded and it was my gaming PC with a Radeon R9 with directX 12 support but no games really use it yet. I regret making the upgrade because they stopped supporting directX 9 and my favorite older games no longer work in Win10. Consequently, we are going to see problems with all older software in new Operating systems due to the change in code. I would advise you to stick with Win 7 until the MS end of life kicks in for it. New does not always mean better. Look at all the people who bought 1070's and 1080's Nvidia video cards thinking they were going to be able to use them to do Iray renders. Shiney new cards only able to play games with them. I have 3 older Nvidia 6gb 780's that I purchased for aroung $350 each and they run circles around these shiney new cards because there is no Iray support for them yet.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited August 2016

    I bought a laptop with W10, it now has 8.1 on it; I'm a rare person that perfers 8.0, but since 8.0 no longer has support, I have grudgingly upgrade. Oh and I'm an ever rarer person to prefer 8 to 7. :)

    MS has turned Windows 10 into a data farm, with us the user being the product. They may very well do the same with earlier versions.

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  • JQPJQP Posts: 512
    I'm sticking with 7 until they pry it out of my fingers. Don't like what I read about 10. A laptop I bought came with 10, and I don't see much to recommend it over 7.
  • mikael-aronssonmikael-aronsson Posts: 586

    Just login with a Local account and no Windows Live ID rubbish and you get rid of most of the stuff like Cortana and the other spy crap, but sure, if you don't want to give your life away to MS there is not much new compared to 7 or 8.1.

     

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,639
    mikael-aronsson said:

    Just login with a Local account and no Windows Live ID rubbish and you get rid of most of the stuff like Cortana and the other spy crap, but sure, if you don't want to give your life away to MS there is not much new compared to 7 or 8.1.

     

    Just logging in with a local account doesn't stop all the data collection. Don't click the big express setup button but go for the smaller one that lets you go through all the options. One of them is Cortana, to use it you have to agree to them seeing what you're typing, I didn't agree to that so I can't use Cortana. I still have a Cortana background process running on my PC and if I stop it, it just comes back again but I'll trust them for now and assume it isn't reporting back to them. There are other things you can select, mostly to do with them suggesting things thet you might like which also involve them seeing what you type. The only thing I accepted was the sending of bug reports, and some privacy enthusiasts recommend turning that off as well.

     

  • mikael-aronssonmikael-aronsson Posts: 586

    Well, I guess that was why I wrote "..you get rid of most of...", actually if you do use a local account you get rid of all the hairy stuff, the rest is no big deal., when MS no longer has a live ID to bind all the collected data to there is not so much use for it any longer, but sure I hope all users go through the Privacy settings and disable all rubbish.

     

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