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Disgruntled Daz Customer

RexRedRexRed Posts: 1,374
edited January 2021 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

This is not a me asking a question I am answering a question.

Why does Daz sometimes crap out in the middle of renders?

The other day I was on Facebook and there was an advertisement for Daz Studio models.

I get targeted Daz ads on Facebook because I am here at the Daz shop a lot.

This person in the comments said they used to use Daz Studio but it would "crap out" in the middle of renders.

They then said Daz needed to fix that before they would use their software and invest in models again...

I thought about their response and I am quite sure I know why Daz would crap out in the middle of their renders.

Heat.

Any renders in any software send my graphics card temperatures through the roof.

The moment I open Daz and load geometry into a scene my cards get really really hot.

The problem is that Nvidia does not offer a native way to control the speed of the fans on your cards.

This way your cards can hit 80+ degrees and burn out your card and motherboard in a year or so and then you will need a new card and Nvidia gets rich!

It really irks me that Nvidia does not provide a way to speed up the fans in their own cards!

No, you have to install "MSI Afterburner" a product made by another company to control the fans on Nvidia's cards.

If you are not speeding up your fans during renders you are burning out your motherboard and graphics card!

Your computer will quit in the middle of renders and restart.

Your graphics card should not go above 60 degrees.

If it does you are risking your investment.

Daz is not crapping out... Your motherboard is shutting off itself to prevent severe heat damage to its components.

Install the MSI Afterburner app and NEVER forget to open it and speed up your fans to full speed when you work in Daz...

You graphics card will last for years if you do not overheat it.

Once a year or even more often you need to go in and dust the inside of your PC and graphics card fans and components off. 

I hope this helps some people out. 

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Comments

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,487

    only thing I took away from this is I probably shouldn't be running my 980ti at 92°C blush

    I actually already knew this but sometimes do it anyway 

  • RexRedRexRed Posts: 1,374

    Hey Wendy, I am sure you already know this, if you run your graphics card at 92°C degrees it will only last about a year (according to Google search). 

    (And it can crap out during renders.)

    Very funny Sevrin, too many lines for Haiku too. lol :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,487
    edited January 2021

    I don't do it so much with renders though but using other GPU based software 

    DAINapp is probably the worst

    bloody 42°C today too and I don't have air conditioning 

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • petes imagespetes images Posts: 213

    Hi,

    the biggest factor is what other processes you have running at the same time, for instance when using Daz i close down all other applications i will not be using while running Daz, and i also - for other reasons as well, use Daz off line

    Pete

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I don't do it so much with renders though but using other GPU based software 

    DAINapp is probably the worst

    bloody 42°C today too and I don't have air conditioning 

    Maybe you should come up here (Finland), had the inside temp at 15C when I woke up and I don't have air conditioning either wink 

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,774

    Might also want to enlighten that user that it's only a problem with an app when "all' users are experiencing it, so since that isn't the case here, they might want to look at their system to see what the issue is.

  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    PerttiA said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I don't do it so much with renders though but using other GPU based software 

    DAINapp is probably the worst

    bloody 42°C today too and I don't have air conditioning 

    Maybe you should come up here (Finland), had the inside temp at 15C when I woke up and I don't have air conditioning either wink 

    Here in Sask Canada I woke up to -35 C ( not sure about wind chill)  and now it is -27C and -34C real feel 

  • marksinister_0f3a44caccmarksinister_0f3a44cacc Posts: 96

    I don't have water cooling in my system and no AC in my house. What I do is never run my computer during the day in the summer and change my computer to power save mode with a maxmium CPU at 65%. You would be amazed at how much cooler your system will run.

    Also I don't over clock anything. My CPU runs up to 4Ghz (normal) in the winter and 1.6 Ghz (power save) in the summer.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,309

    Iray rendering
    Graphics card is running hot
    Better blow on it

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,487

    Kharma said:

    PerttiA said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I don't do it so much with renders though but using other GPU based software 

    DAINapp is probably the worst

    bloody 42°C today too and I don't have air conditioning 

    Maybe you should come up here (Finland), had the inside temp at 15C when I woke up and I don't have air conditioning either wink 

    Here in Sask Canada I woke up to -35 C ( not sure about wind chill)  and now it is -27C and -34C real feel 

    your family will have to all gather around your tower while you render 

  • RexRedRexRed Posts: 1,374

    Chestnuts roasting on an open GPU! :)

  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,658

    Could also do what my son did, took off the side panel on the tower and had the fan in the room blowing directly on it...worked like a charm. If you angle it right and also not have it blowing on the monitor (tends to make the screen go squirrely), it can keep both you and the computer cooler.

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