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Making it Easier to Rollback Daz Studio

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    kwannie said:

    Thanks Fixmypcmike,

     Looks like I have backups for just about every version from DAZ 2.2  to DAZ 4.12 except for DAZ 4.11 not sure why I didn't back that one up. Most of the early ones are only 32 bit, which version did the start providing 64 bit?

    Still curious, also, about why there is a DAZ Studio 4.14 Public Build +BETA+  and a version simply labled DAZ studio 4.14 (Win 64) which one is the right one to download?

    Usually they put out a beta first before promoting it to general release; in this case they provided the same version for both so that someone could update just one of them to 4.14 and still have 4.12 as well.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    12 was pretty awfull

    Nothing wrong with 4.12.0.86, or at least I haven't found any problems

  • kwanniekwannie Posts: 869

    Mike still a bit fuzzy, so are you saying the Beta version does not overight the previous version that one currently has installed? whereas the general release will overight it? So If still want to keep 4.12 in this instance I would install 4.14 Beta, and if I I don't care about losing 4.12 I just install the general release?

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,071
    fred9803 said:

    A few years ago I was told my a mod on this forum that the reason older versions of DS are non-downloadable is because they don't have the staff to deal with tech issues for them all. This seems to me to be an entirely reasonable position seeing as DS is freeware... discouraging the use of superseded versions. It's not cost-effective for DAZ to provide tech support for software going back 15 years. So making previous versions not downloadable is a way of keeping costs down and using their staff more effectively.

    That's a non-argument. They could simply include a disclaimer that they won't offer tech support for legacy versions and still provide the download.

    Don't they already do that with GenX (which isn't even free)?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    kwannie said:

    Mike still a bit fuzzy, so are you saying the Beta version does not overight the previous version that one currently has installed? whereas the general release will overight it? So If still want to keep 4.12 in this instance I would install 4.14 Beta, and if I I don't care about losing 4.12 I just install the general release?

    The General Release will overwrite the previous General Release, and the Public Build Beta will overwrite the previous Public Build Beta, but the General Release and the Bet are independent, so you can update one nd keep the other.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    Hylas said:
    fred9803 said:

    A few years ago I was told my a mod on this forum that the reason older versions of DS are non-downloadable is because they don't have the staff to deal with tech issues for them all. This seems to me to be an entirely reasonable position seeing as DS is freeware... discouraging the use of superseded versions. It's not cost-effective for DAZ to provide tech support for software going back 15 years. So making previous versions not downloadable is a way of keeping costs down and using their staff more effectively.

    That's a non-argument. They could simply include a disclaimer that they won't offer tech support for legacy versions and still provide the download.

    Don't they already do that with GenX (which isn't even free)?

    Besides, they provide support for older versions if you didn't upgrade.

  • mmkdazmmkdaz Posts: 335

    As someone who rollbacks almost every progeram from browser to photoshop to msword to cad to audio player to photo viewer, I can tell you with absolutely certainty the current build of dazstudio is by far the fastest and most efficient it's ever been.

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