What are the system requirements for Daz3d Install Manager?
Kjartan
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I asked this in the DIM 1.4.0.17 thread and did not get a response. I have looked all over the forums and the internet in general and found nothing apart from vague allusions to it not working on systems that pre-date Daz3D as a company.
I would like to know what the system requirements of DIM are because I use a pretty old system and I know one of these days I am going to install a DIM upgrade and it won't work. Where do I go to find this out? Why is is not clearly posted seemingly anywhere?
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DIM is pretty lightweight. If your system can run Windows 7 it can run DIM. For people with thousands of purchased DAZ products to download & store on their PC locally via DIM it helps a lot to use an SSD as disk drive.
The problem is can your old system run DAZ Studio itself? I ran it reasonably well on an HP 8470P Elitebook with 16GB RAM and a 3rd Gen Intel i7-3630qm with intel HD Graphic 4000 GPU. The same laptop worked well with DAZ Studio with a less capable 3rd generation i5 CPU as well.
My computer can run Daz 4.8 on Mac 10.6.8. I have no real interest anymore in running newer than that and most of the people I personally know can't run past 4.8 either (only one of them can run 4.10 without it crashing).
I want to know how long I can keep updating DIM on a computer running Mac OS 10.6.8, but I can't even find the system requirements for DIM itself. Is the newest version still compatible? The next? The one after that? Who knows!
DIM is so lightweight they don't bother with system requirements for it. Will it evgentually break on your dinosaur system? Almost certainly. When? Who knows. But I wouldn't be shocked if your hardware croaks first.
Well, you should since you are determined to stay on DAZ Studio that is no longer being updated also stop updating DIM. I'm not sure how to stop the auto-updating of DIM though. You should write a ticket to DAZ support for that question and ask when DIM support will stop on Mac OS 10.6.8 (they probably will tell you it already has stopped and if it works for you still it's not be their design that it still does).
You should also manually download a copy of the DIM you use now & save that DIM installer as "2020Feb12WorkingDIM.exe" or similar and also the version of DAZ Studio 4.8 you are using and all you product installers for DIM and copy those to two external USB HDDs as backups.
It is not just that I am concerned with my own DIM use, but that it is not publicly addressed (the DIM page should list the system requirements boldly).
I still have computers from the early 80's that still come on and work. It's the mac software and lack of backward compatability that bites one in the buttocks more often than not.
And it does not matter if an application is "lightweight" when we're talking about literally two brief lines of text on a product page. It's irresponsible for a company to not meet that level of minimal information.
AFAIK older versions of DIM can't be used to download content once a new one is available, you have to update to work online. You could download the files manually and put them in DIM downlad folder then install them with DIM offline, but that's a bit cumbersome.
Regarding the system requirements, have you tried asking Daz Support team?
Three times now and I received no response, hence my asking in the forums.