What's up with Daz Studio(4.15), I had tons of characters and Morphs and G8F loaded in 10 seconds...

nokoteb99

I recently installled More characters and morphs not so many, about 3, and i hadn't used daz studio for a while and to my surprised when i tried it and tried loading G8F, after months of having used it before with loading times of about 10 seconds. NOw it just doesn't load. The progress bar gets stuck, it seems to crash and stuff.

BUt why does this happen if it was fine and loading fast with tons and tons of products before? Does Daz just slowly give up or is it the drive it is on that is dying or something? I have Daz studio and the content on a external drive. Seems to work fine . but i dont know.

I already made a copy of all the User folder along with the my daz3dlibrary to another drive in order to try to recreate a new installation of daz studio in that drive.

I don't know, but i noticed in the current drive where i have it installed, if i go to the data/daz3d/Genesis 8/Female/Morphs, and i temporarily move out all the folders ( i have like 100Plus and they weren't making the G8F load any slow before but now they are), to a temporary folder in the same drive but outside the MyDaz3Dlibrary, and i try to load the G8F base female, ,then loading her is much faster. ALthough still takes slower than when i had my 100+ morph folders before and it used to load at 10 seconds.

So now it seems for some reason Daz studio is confused or my Drive is bad or getting bad. who knows.

anyone have any ideas?

Here are the loading bars to compare.

A) Typically when it used to load in like 10 seconds or so, the bar would stay at the edge and then load fast

B) Now, the bar moves along or even moves and then cycles

nokoteb99

Oh and i have to say, seems to just happen with G8F and G8.1F.. G8M figures load kind of instantly, i have to say i have less G8M characters and less morphs for them though. But again, like i said G8F was loading instantly also even with the tons of morphs and characters just recently

nokoteb99

Ok here's a weird update. I didn't do nothing much, just was testing and moved all the data/.../Genesis/Female/Morphs folders( 100+) out to a temporary folder..then moved them back...and after a while...of letting them sit....It went from 5 to 10 minute loading time of base G8F, to now 1 minute load. What the heck is going on?

Is this all a Drive problem or a weird Daz Studio bug or what?  Seems there's alot of weird things happening, sometimes loads fast s, sometimes takes eternity or errors and enver loads.

PrefoX

sounds like a drive problem, probably the data was framented, the moving around may have put the files  together again. Just a possibility

nokoteb99

Do you think it's time to fix the drive? What windows 10 commands or utilities do i use?

And by the way i'm trying to recreate an installation of Daz Studio in another drive , i already copied the entire Users directory containing the

=Public  and =Users Directories  , and the Public ones contains the Documents and MyDAZ3DLibrary containing all my stuff.

Now my question is how do i install a copy of DAZStudio in that drive and set it up to work for that drive. So that when i start up Daz studio in that drive, it can access the stuff in that drive, and hopefully it doesn't look for the MyDaz3Dlibrary in the other drive.

 

 

Padone

There are some assets that alone bring daz studio to its knees. And they're not even warned or uncommon at all. A typical example is all the Zev0 morph packages. This is just a "design" flaw since daz studio is supposed to handle all the possible morphs for a specific figure. The only workaround is to don't use certain morph packages unless absolutely necessary for the current project.

Personally I do a separate content folder for every project, where I install only the assets required. Then to switch to another project I just switch the content folder. This makes things fast and also avoids most conflicts among different assets.

DrunkMonkeyProductions

Padone said:

Personally I do a separate content folder for every project, where I install only the assets required. Then to switch to another project I just switch the content folder. This makes things fast and also avoids most conflicts among different assets.

If you're doing an actual 'install' every time, here's a suggestion that might save you a massive amount of time.

Install the "Data" folders for each asset that Genesis(or other figures) may use in separate directories and map them, as needed, in CDM(Content directory manager).

Then, when the project is done, copy the DSX file(ContentDIrectoryManager.dsx) from C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4, to a backup so you can go back and use the same assets again, if needed. Replacing the new one with a 'default' version to reset it.

This is for the morph data folder only, anything else can get dumped in a general data folder.

 

 

Padone

No I keep the project folders and just backup and swap them, no need to reinstall anything. I don't use DIM but manual install. A typical project for me takes some environments and a bunch of figures, plus eventually a few background props and people, so this way it's doable.

But thank you for the tip.