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Daz Central problem

CricketCricket Posts: 465
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I decided to instal Daz Central and try it out. It has completely changed the layout of D|S, and I can't figure out how to change it back. Is there a way to go back to to old layout without completley unistalling and reinstalling D|S?

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Window > Workspace > Select Layout

    It shouldn't have reset the layout, even if it installed DS to a different location.

  • mambanegramambanegra Posts: 586

    I let it install DS and it destroyed my install (no graphical components at all, just a white screen with words where buttons would be....very big mess). I had to redownload DS and reinstall manually to be able to use it again. On top of that, everything I installed via DAZ Central is missing stuff. A few items are actually legit mistakes on store items, but most work fine after I reinstall them via DIM. I've decided not to use it again for a while. Oddly, reinstalling didn't wipe any of my settings away, as far as I can tell. 

  • Michael CallahanMichael Callahan Posts: 58
    edited July 2020

    I am running a older workstation a HP Z400 with a Xeon W3540 processor and 16 gigabytes of memory. Graphic card is a Quadro FX 1800/PCIe/SSE2.  The clock speed is 2.93GHz and the chip set is Intel X58 Express. The operating system is Windows 10.  It take along time to load the DAZ Central before I can launch DAZ Studio.  My internet connection is DSL runs at 92 Kbps download speed.  It takes about 10 to 15 minutes for all the picture to load.  I cannot lauch DAZ Studio the old way it give me a error code and I have to wait for the entire program to load to lauch DAZ Studio.  I wouldn't mind using DAZ Central if I could lauch DAZ Studio seperately from DAZ Central.  

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,877
    mambanegra said:

    I let it install DS and it destroyed my install (no graphical components at all, just a white screen with words where buttons would be....very big mess). I had to redownload DS and reinstall manually to be able to use it again. On top of that, everything I installed via DAZ Central is missing stuff. A few items are actually legit mistakes on store items, but most work fine after I reinstall them via DIM. I've decided not to use it again for a while. Oddly, reinstalling didn't wipe any of my settings away, as far as I can tell. 

    That almost certainly means DS was running (possibly only in the background as it cleared up) when you installed.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    mambanegra said:

    I had to redownload DS and reinstall manually to be able to use it again.

    That is actually the right way to fix the "installed while still running" whiteout glitch.

    mambanegra said:

    Oddly, reinstalling didn't wipe any of my settings away, as far as I can tell. 

    That is what's supposed to happen. The settings files are stored separately from the program files, content download files, content installed files, and content database files. The only alternative would be forcing everyone to recreate all their settings every time they update the program. Very not a good idea...

  • CricketCricket Posts: 465

    I think D|S was running when I installed it, so that was the issue. I just reinstalled and that fixed the issue.

  • mambanegramambanegra Posts: 586

    Honestly, I have no idea whether DS was running or not, but it could have been. I had run into this at least once before, so I did what I thought had fixed it last time. Probably that was based on feedback from someone here...I imagine that's not something DAZ can do anything about, except to check to see if DAZ Studio is running before installing the actual updates to the program itself. So, I guess I can't chalk that one up to Connect. 

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,213

    I tried DAZ Central on a clean Windows install. It is a mess. I unistalled everything and went back to DIM.

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