Staying with Daz 4.10 for now. Questions for DIM.

magog_a4eb71ab

I need to stay with 4.10 for now on my laptop. I haven't logged in with DIM or updated it since prior to the new Daz release. I was wondering if I log into DIM is it going to try to automatically install the new Daz version, and if so, how to prevent this? Like I said, I want to stay with the previous version for now. Also, I do not have any of the beta versions installed, either.

Leana

DIM shouldn't install anything unless you tell it to.

You can hide entries in the "ready to download" tab if you want to make sure you don't download and install them by mistake (you'll be able to unhide it if you change your mind)0

radia

What about the new DIM itself?

My computer is reaaaaally old, so I'm fairly sure it won't be able to handle Daz 4.11 and therefore I've stuck with 4.10. In a similar vein, am I likely to encounter any problems with the new update of DIM? I used to install all new purchases with DIM but for the last week I can't because it only offers me the option to upgrade to the new version or work offline - no possibility of using my current version of DIM.

MelanieL

radia said:

What about the new DIM itself?

My computer is reaaaaally old, so I'm fairly sure it won't be able to handle Daz 4.11 and therefore I've stuck with 4.10. In a similar vein, am I likely to encounter any problems with the new update of DIM? I used to install all new purchases with DIM but for the last week I can't because it only offers me the option to upgrade to the new version or work offline - no possibility of using my current version of DIM.

Well I run DIM on a 2010 laptop with only 4GB RAM and the update to DIM is working perfectly well for me.

I wouldn't even attempt to run DAZ Studio 4.11 (or even DS 4.10) on my laptop: integrated graphics with no VRAM to speak of, too little RAM to load a scene of any size, ...
I have a 2012 built PC which I use for DAZ Studio, with 32 GB RAM and a 2 GB graphics card that mostly manages dForce but couldn't Iray render anything but the simplest scene via GPU - I'm lucky that my GPU is just of a recent enough generation that has drivers available to be able to run dForce and the odd render in DS 4.11, but maybe yours can't?

 But I'm pretty sure you'll have no problems with the latest version of DIM - as long as you make sure you don't accidentally download DS 4.11 and overwrite your 4.10 installers!  I'd strongly recommend keeping a backup copy of the DS 4.10 installers and any matching add-ons that you use, if you don't already, "just in case"!

radia

Thanks - that's reassuring.

Mine's a similar vintage - 2010. It's the best spec I could afford at the time and has 16 GB RAM, so works ok with 4.10 but from everything I've been reading I think 4.11 would be a bridge too far.

I'll see about making backups and then update the DIM only. It's good to know that the new DIM still works well for you with an older version of Daz.

ArtAngel

radia said:

Thanks - that's reassuring.

Mine's a similar vintage - 2010. It's the best spec I could afford at the time and has 16 GB RAM, so works ok with 4.10 but from everything I've been reading I think 4.11 would be a bridge too far.

I'll see about making backups and then update the DIM only. It's good to know that the new DIM still works well for you with an older version of Daz.

Also make sure you create a restore point prior to download (donload but don't install). Then do another restore point prior to installing files.

radia

Good idea - thanks! Will do.

Hylas

According to a chat I had with daz technical support, the update to 4.11. won't change anything in the "My DAZ 3D Library" folder, only in the "DAZStudio4" folder. So if one makes a copy of the latter and keeps it somewhere safe it should work as a way back to 4.10.

Mind you, I haven't actually tried this. But this information comes from the official tech support here.