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...true, just trying to avoid that 6 year long Microsoft "beta test" called Windows 10. At least here beta versions are an option, don't affect other system operations or introduce instabilities that can mess up your system, can be run concurrently with older or newer versions of the core programme, and can be removed without harm to the rest of the system.
It will be any Mac using an Intel processor - so anything from the last 10 years apart from the new M1 Macbook Air and Mac Minis released last year. X86 comes from the serial numbers used by Intel which began with the 8086 processor, then went to the 286, 386 and 486. They dropped the numbering with the Pentium machines but they are all more or less compatible with the ancient 8086.
righto that's an astute observation ... I'll let you or whoever pre-beta test it for me, then when it runs halfway decently I'll look at things again ...
Didn't used to be like that. DAZ3D couldn't wait to share new figures and new ideas from the top down to the end users. Things started changing years back and now it's all hush hush for the most part. Not even the content artists are allowed to mention much (NDA). So for Rob to start this thread and continue to post is (in my opinion) a step back into a direction allot of old timers miss!
one of the perks of pc club, back in the day, was suppoed to give us previews of up and coming.
the only thing i want to know is when will general rigging work in carrara
I used tape like that on teletype when I was in the military. No kidding. In the 1980s we used radio-teletype for certain communications.I used to be able to read the ASCII characters on the tape just by looking at it.
Same; I used punch cards in 1973, but when I was working in the Arctic Circle in the early 1980s we sent our reports south using two 5-bit baudot teletypes with their horrible partial keyboards. I remember sitting there at 2:00 in the morning splicing pieces of tape togther by punching holes through using a dart. One summer I bought an Apple ][+ computer, my boss wrote some machine language code to convert the 8-bit ASCII from my word processor (AppleWriter)to 5-bit baudot and the head radio tech built an adapter to take the signal from the serial printer port to the teletype. It seemed like magic to me back then.
-- Walt Sterdan
Now isn't there a function (or method or whatever they call them now) called "cudaDeviceReset" that would free all the graphics card memory? I would hope if they're rewriting the software then they could make it handle graphics card memory better this time around.
I find it confusing that you'd call RTX "nonsense". RTX/Tensor cores are a HUGE step forward for graphics fidelity and for rendering... Would you call unbaiased render engines and PBR materials "nonsense"?
You don't have to pay scalper prices to have a current card for MSRP, evga has a waiting list you can sign up for and you will get a card for retail price. That's exactly what I did, I signed up for a 3060 the day it was released, started saving for the card, and I got my card this month for just over $400 (including shipping and tax, which was over $40
). My small test scene that I was using to benchmark my hardware went from 9 minutes on a 1070 to 2.5 minutes on the 3060. That reduction in render time is certainly not "nonsense" and has already saved me days of render time on some small animations.
I don't think she was questioning the benefits of having an RTX. More like that you have to go on a waiting list and wait 6 months to get one, or alternatively pay a usury price to a scalper .... that sort of nonsense.
Directly mentioning RTX seemed like a dig at the technology to me, but I could be wrong. Having the same non existant stock and scalper issue with older 10XX/20xx cards and AMD cards makes the whole situation for anoyne looking for the lastest or last generation GPU a nightmare. At least the situation is slightly improving now and will hopefully get to the point where stock and prices are actually normal.
.even Maxwell Titan-X cards are running for between 500$ - 700$ at the "buy it now" price on eBay.
would be interesting if it coul run NLA animation clips. Vray render engine. import a .car vertex object directly without having to go thru the convert to obj step
Unfortunately my Daz library is over 600GB so I really don't have enough disk space to run 2 totally separate installations at the same time, so at least for me it's either or situation....I suppose I just have to wait and see how this thing evolves and what kind of stance Daz is going to take.
You don't need separate content libraries to use both versions.
I have to wonder if they stopped doing it after various occasions when doing it bit them.
When I looked up the function call there was a note:
"Note that this function will reset the device immediately. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the device is not being accessed by any other host threads from the process when this function is called."
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/group__CUDART__DEVICE.html#group__CUDART__DEVICE_1gef69dd5c6d0206c2b8d099abac61f217This would suggest to me that just resetting the card is not meant as a general function for clearing (freeing) VRAM. It seems to be used when closing an application and even then it is not mandatory. The garbage collection I think you are asking about could be handle through different methods.
If you look at the picture in this wikipedia posting that was the first instrument I worked on, although we were primarily had our machines in trucks. Later I was trained as a radio operator then radio teletype. These machines required considerable finger strength to press the keys. It was the machine I used to learn to type. To this day when start typing like a mad-man it looks like I'm trying to pound the poor plastic keyboard through the desk.
I even had that chair for a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
I remember when I was posted to a regional comms center and we had "digital" teletype. My boss kept saying "stop pounding the keys, it's not mechanical and if you break it you will be fixing it. I am not calling services again because of you!
Now I have to type on screens 4 times the width of my thumb without smashing the gorilla glass
My first use of a computer was my eldest brother's Timex-Sinclair with the RAM expansion card, black and white TV, and audio cassette recorder for data storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 That's where I first learned about BASIC and Assembler.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Hmmm.... DUF files are just text files maybe we could switch back to teletype so there would be no need for a mac, windows, or linux version ... AND ... AND ... eveybody sitting at desks could improve their finger strength so they can all learn to get a grip instead of a gripe.
I guess we will never truly know. DAZ core owners have changed, so has staff and folks at the top have their own idea how to run a business may have influenced decisions like that!
Can you give examples?
I think DAZ will HAVE to abandon Windows 7. Most companies have had to do that, just to eliminate the technical debt that it represents.
Oh, and for a lot of companies, "deprecated" means not just no more development, but no more support and no more spending money on that thing that was deprecated.
We all want DAZ to survive and thrive. The only way it can do that is to be truly competitive. Since most other vendors already have or will soon eliminate Windows 7, DAZ will need to do the same thing. People on the forums may be vocal and insist that Windows 7 is critical for them, but that's probably not a significant percentage of DAZ customers. The same may even be true of Linux.
Providing Windows 7 support when nobody else does, well that would just be an added company expense. For a company as small as DAZ, this would likely not be a strategic way to compete.
That's an interesting thought. I would say the same thing is true about Mac users. I'd also bet that there are more Windows 7 users than Mac users, and yet . . . lol - just sayin.
- Greg
I agree - W7 will, at some point, no longer be able to run Studio. That doesn't mean Daz has to actively abandon W7. They just need to keep on with planned upgrrades and at some point Studio just won't run on W7. Hopefully this will be discovered in beta and advance notice can be posted that the next public release will no longer work on W7 so people can archive the current installers.
I would drop Windows like a hot brick if Daz made a version of Daz Studio for Linux! It's one of the last things keeping me on Windows and I love Linux. At least it doesn't treat me like I'm incapable of taking care of my own computer ;).
Laurie
You obviously haven't been here long.
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Pretty much any change that gets announced is construed as certain doom.
And here we are again.
True for me, too: a Timex with a cassette tape. Then, an Apple ][, which seemed wonderful. It was all text, of course. To write, both teachers and students used FredWrite (for Free Educational Writer). The Macintosh was astonishing! Ah, memories. Oh, and in college, I, too, used punch cards. It was so wonderful when that switched to bubbling in things on the cards with a pencil, instead of punching the cards. I then had to take a stack of cards up to Stanford University, which would run them for me on one of their computers. After a time, I would get a call, and I could go and pick up the results.
True, and those Mac users are in the same boat as those Windows 7 users... their machines are getting older and eventually their machines or operating systems will no longer be able to run the newest versions of D|S or use the newest products, and their options will be the even fewer than those runing Windows 7 users.
Mac or PC, we're all D|S users and we're all either moving forward with it, standing still, or dropping back, regardless of how many in eadh group there is. D|S 5 isn't being built for Mac users, it's beng built for DAZ Studio users of all stripes.
-- Walt
That's a good point, but a lot of businesses are forward looking. Maybe they've seen the percentage of Mac users rise in a significant way, or maybe they've seen it rise enough to now justify making it a development priority. I don't know; I'm not in those DAZ meetings, hehe.
Or maybe DAZ sees Apple's new architecture/chip plans as a technical opportunity. I know I do. A lot of people who've never owned a Mac are now considering a purchase of one or more of the forthcoming Apple M1 or M2 ARM devices strictly due to the prospect of Apple's new architecture. Especially since it runs faster and cooler than anything that Intel/AMD/Nvidia have going on with X86/X64 architecture.
All of the above is discoverable for DAZ. Those meetings would be interesting for sure, and this is an amazing time to be alive.
...I used to be a keybaord musician (classical piano and organ) and yes finger as well as wrist strength was very important. At home I still had an old manual typewriter as well (actually still have it in a closet, never know when it may come in handy again). Both of these also caused me to be pretty rough on digital keyboards at first as well. Don't like touch screens or the Apple "chicklet" keyboards as there is no actual depression or physical feedback. All my keyboards are the physical switch variety and require a solid touch so "grazing" another key doesn't cause typos.
...same here. I have no issue with Open Office and actually prefer it over current version MS Office with it's ridiculous ribbon that takes up a good portion of the screen and 365 is now cloud based...no thank you. Gimp which I use a lot also runs on Linux. if Daz did I'd be at home and then just set up a VM to run Carrara, Bryce, Krita, PSP and other programmes that don't involve GPU rendering and still work on W7.