GB hard drive space and Daz perfomance

Toobis

Simple Q: so I have only 343 GB left as free space on my internal hard drive from 1.81 TB max space. Would this be a good reason for your Daz studio to load up scenes very slow? I have a lot of stuff installed also but would this be a primary reason?

outrider42

No. I moved my entire content library to a 4TB SSD and it barely made a difference. This is purely a software problem. What slows down loading is the actual size of your library for one base figure. The more morphs you have for say Genesis 8 Female the slower that figure will load. If you have another figure with just a few morphs, like say you never got on the original Genesis train, then Genesis 1 should load very fast for you.

Try it and see. Try the bases you don't have a lot of content for. You can also load props and environments as well (no people) and see how they load.

The best way to deal with this is to either remove morphs you rarely use, or buy Turbo Loader for the figure causing you grief. Turbo Loader can be a real life saver. You can use it turn turn 'off' morphs you do not want to use. The process is fairly quick once you get used to it. You can always turn back on any morphs you wish to use. Because of that, it is much easier than trying to manually manage your content library.

I got Turbo Loader and it cut my times by more than half, which was acceptable for me, as I didn't even turn half of them off. This made a huge difference because times were getting into multiple minutes long for some things. Killing off half my Genesis 8 morphs helps every single G8 scene I saved load faster. I am kicking myself for not buying it sooner.

Toobis

outrider42 said:

No. I moved my entire content library to a 4TB SSD and it barely made a difference. This is purely a software problem. What slows down loading is the actual size of your library for one base figure. The more morphs you have for say Genesis 8 Female the slower that figure will load. If you have another figure with just a few morphs, like say you never got on the original Genesis train, then Genesis 1 should load very fast for you.

Try it and see. Try the bases you don't have a lot of content for. You can also load props and environments as well (no people) and see how they load.

The best way to deal with this is to either remove morphs you rarely use, or buy Turbo Loader for the figure causing you grief. Turbo Loader can be a real life saver. You can use it turn turn 'off' morphs you do not want to use. The process is fairly quick once you get used to it. You can always turn back on any morphs you wish to use. Because of that, it is much easier than trying to manually manage your content library.

I got Turbo Loader and it cut my times by more than half, which was acceptable for me, as I didn't even turn half of them off. This made a huge difference because times were getting into multiple minutes long for some things. Killing off half my Genesis 8 morphs helps every single G8 scene I saved load faster. I am kicking myself for not buying it sooner.

I see yes that is unfortunate. Where can I find this turbo loader you speak of please? how much is it also. Do you have a link also? thx.

outrider42

There are several different ones, so make sure to get the one for the figure you are having issues with. I assume it may be G8F, so this is the link to that one.

https://www.daz3d.com/turbo-loader-for-genesis-8-and-81

There is also a forum thread about it, too. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/557186/released-turbo-loader-for-genesis-8-and-8-1-commercial/p1

I recommend looking through that thread if you have any questions, and Riversoft (the PA) has been personally addressing many of the questions. Some people are posting their load times before and after, too.

(Bonus, it looks like it is on sale, too. I would not hesitate. It is worth it. I'd freakin pay full price for this thing after seeing the results in person.)

It does require paying attention to the morphs you use. But if you screw up, Daz will post an error log of missing morphs. If that happens, just shut down Daz, restart it, and run Turbo Loader. You can activate the missing morphs and run the script, boom. Back in business and still loading fast.

nonesuch00

I've read that once SSD go below 10% available space that SSDs start to noticably slow down. I've had that happen and the slow down is noticable and why I split DAZ content onto it's own SSD drive separate from the system/program SSD drive. Not really too relevant to DAZ Studio most of the time because it's DAZ Studio parsing through product description files to load the product, build, and load them into RAM is what is slow in DS.