DAZ Studio won't launch
brandywin_daf8edd597
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Hi,
I've a weird problem. DAZ worked fine for me all the time until I decided to do a cleanup, reinstall it and all my stuff with it. I used download manager to redownload it and install, and after that when trying to launch the .exe nothing happens, it just doesnt launch, doesnt even appear in processes.
My specs:
Win 7 64
Xeon E3 3,80 Ghz
16 GB RAM
GF 760
I didnt change anything else in my system and everything else runs fine, all drivers are up to date, clean registry, HDD in perfect shape, fresh install of Windows from 2 weeks ago. Tried reinstalling it a couple of times, including a fresh download of both the DAZ Studio installer, Install Manager+CMS, and nothing.
Any ideas?
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You are using the nVidia drivers, not the Windows defaults? Do you even get the splash screen for DS? If you go to C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio 4 and open the log.txt file (assuming there is one) how does it end?
I'm using nVidia drivers. I dont get a splash screen, just busy icon next to the cursor for a second and nothing after that.
Here is the content of my log.txt file :
+++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.6.3.52 starting +++++++++++++++++
Platform bits: 64
Qt Version: 4.8.6
OpenSubdiv Version: 2.3.5
Running on Windows 7, Build 7600, No Service Pack Installed
CPU Information:
CPU String: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand String: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Cache Line Size = 64
L2 Associativity = 6
Cache Size = 256
Stepping ID = 3
Model = 12
Family = 6
Extended model = 3
CLFLUSH cache line size = 64
APIC Physical ID = 2
Supported CPU Features:
SSE3 New Instructions
MONITOR/MWAIT
CPL Qualified Debug Store
Thermal Monitor 2
x87 FPU On Chip
Virtual-8086 Mode Enhancement
Debugging Extensions
Page Size Extensions
Time Stamp Counter
RDMSR and WRMSR Support
Physical Address Extensions
Machine Check Exception
CMPXCHG8B Instruction
APIC On Chip
SYSENTER and SYSEXIT
Memory Type Range Registers
PTE Global Bit
Machine Check Architecture
Conditional Move/Compare Instruction
Page Attribute Table
Page Size Extension
CFLUSH Extension
Debug Store
Thermal Monitor and Clock Ctrl
MMX Technology
FXSAVE/FXRSTOR
SSE Extensions
SSE2 Extensions
Self Snoop
Hyper-threading Technology
Thermal Monitor
Pend. Brk. EN.
Physical Memory:
Total: 15.9 GB (17104355328)
Avail: 13.5 GB (14520922112)
Virtual Memory:
Total: 7.9 TB (8796092891136)
Avail: 7.9 TB (8795862024192)
Current Memory Usage: 15%
Current DateTime:
Loc: So 18. pa? 20:03:56 2014
UTC: So 18. pa? 18:03:56 2014
Temp Data:
Location = C:/Users/A/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/temp
Disk Total: 97.5 GB (104751689728)
Disk Avail: 32.9 GB (35354587136)
Locale: pl_PL
No translator found.
Reading style definition D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/resources/style/Main Street.style
Creating managers
Reading help index
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/DAZ Studio/DAZStudioHelp.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/EXPExporter/ExPExporter.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/FBXExporter/FBXExporter.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/FigureSetup/FigureSetup.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/JointEditor/JointEditor.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/LayeredImageEditor/LayeredImageEditor.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/MorphLoader/MorphLoader.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/MorphLoaderPro/MorphLoaderPro.dsx
Reading help file D:/soft/daz/software/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/docs/Plugins/PolygonGroupEditor/PolygonGroupEditor.dsx
The next sections should be:
Scanning import folders
Scanning content folders
Using GLEW 1.9.0
Supported OpenGL extensions:
So, the obvious potential issues are some kind of bad directory link, a corrupted layout file, or driver issues. The middle one is the easiest to try - remove all of the .dsx files from the C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio 4 folder and try launching again.
I removed all of the files mentioned and it still won't launch, also reinstalled everything again using default settins and locations, still nothing.
Do you have any idea as to which drivers might be causing this? I'm a bit loss here because all other software works fine (and I'm using 3D modelling tools on daily basis).
Did you try removing the .dsx files?
I do notice, if I'm reading the log correctly, that you are in Poland (or at least, using a Polish version of Windows). What is the exact path to your Public Documents folder on the disc drive?
Yes, I removed those files, still no effect.
I'm using Polish Windows, path to my Public Documents is C:\Users\Public\Public Documents.
Well, that appears to rule out DS choking on a non-standard (for the US) character. I'm not sure what to suggest next.
did you ever figure this out???
I am having the same problem. again after performing some system maintenance and removing junk files, etc...