How To Open A New Daz Instance While Another One Is Closing?

LenioTG

Hi everyone!

It has been almost three years since I started using Daz Studio.
I have acquired the habit to close an instance to quickly close a scene, and to immediately open a new instance of Daz Studio.

With the new changes, this is not doable anymore.

Until the old instance has been shut down in the background, I can't open a new one, and this takes very long, we're talking minutes for complex scenes.

I didn't have any problem with the fact that Daz was closing the previous scene in the background, while I was starting working on a new one.
My system has nice hardware, so I couldn't notice a difference in performance even if I wanted to.

So I'd prefer to not have to wait for 5 minutes for Daz to close in the background, and to not arrest it by force in the task manager.

The script I had found to open new instances requires Daz to be already opened, right?
I could look for the script, use it to open another instance, then close Daz. But the whole process would be counterintuitive, and surely slower than what we've always done.

So, how can I solve this problem?

Thank you in advance!

nicstt

You can set up to use multiple instances.

There is a script somewhere, and I can't remember where; this allows you to create additional instances - as many as your system will support.

I use a .bat file on my desktop (save in a .txt file and change the extension to .bat works); the code I use is for my setup, but the script will create something similar.

"C:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/!DAZStudio4 Public Build 4.12.1.76/DAZStudio" -instanceName # -copyAppSettings PublicBuild -copySessionUI "Public Build" "E:\Documents\Daz 3D All Libraries\Default Scene.duf"

In the example above, which is what I use, the script targest a specific beta build, and loads a default scene.

You could manually change the script and it should work for your system; be better to track the script down though.