Daz Studio BETA - version 4.23.0.4! (*UPDATED*)

Imago

DoctorJellybean said:

The problem is most likely that it only happens under certain circumstances, e.g. in your case stuff altered with Mesh Grabber 3 and not baked to moprh (don't use the "save" option in the Mesh Grabber panel), some animations. It doesn't appear to be consistent.

It's VERY consistent if many times I load a big scene under 4.23, it crashes brutally.

It just seems to happen more often if the scene contains something altered with Mesh Grabber, it crashes even if there's nothing changed with the plugin.

The only way to avoid the crash is to save the scene I'm working on, close DAZ Studio and load the next scene... And this is impossible to do when rendering multiple animated scenes with the Batch Renderer.

I reverted back to 4.21 and the crashes completely disappeared.

Threed Resident

WandW said:

Richard Haseltine said:

WandW said:

I couldn't install the latest beta via DIM.  It uninstalled the previous version, but it shows as -1 Bytes in the installed file list in DIM, and on restarting DIM it shows as not installed.  Repeating the installation, and redownloading the file gave the same result.  I ended up renaming the 'c:/program files/DAZStudio4 Public Build' directory and it did install.

I have seen others with similar issues. The inability to install without manually deleting the folder does suggest permission issues, or security software being hyper-sensitive.

I hadn't ever changed anything in that folder, and I'm not using any third-party security software on that machine; just Windows Defender. 

I had also updated the release version of Studio, and DIM uninstalled it but did not reinstall.   I "uninstalled" it and reinstalled it via DIM and it did sucessfully install...

 

For me Daz Studio suddenly stopped working, the taskbar icon was blank. In the DIM, both postgresql and daz studio prompt to update, but apparently fail to with the -1 bytes note afterwards; a refresh just prompts to install again.

^Like WandW, I'm not using any 3rd party antivirus, and I've never modified these directories or their folder permissions. I've deleted them and reinstalled, no luck.

 

This has happened several times in the past too, I was never able to resolve it, and I've eventually given up and reinstalled windows each time.

 

This is a recurring problem since before Covid, smells like registry corruption. I've been using new (less than a year old) SSDs the last few times this has happened, so I don't think it's my hardware.

DoctorJellybean

Threed Resident said:

WandW said:

Richard Haseltine said:

WandW said:

I couldn't install the latest beta via DIM.  It uninstalled the previous version, but it shows as -1 Bytes in the installed file list in DIM, and on restarting DIM it shows as not installed.  Repeating the installation, and redownloading the file gave the same result.  I ended up renaming the 'c:/program files/DAZStudio4 Public Build' directory and it did install.

I have seen others with similar issues. The inability to install without manually deleting the folder does suggest permission issues, or security software being hyper-sensitive.

I hadn't ever changed anything in that folder, and I'm not using any third-party security software on that machine; just Windows Defender. 

I had also updated the release version of Studio, and DIM uninstalled it but did not reinstall.   I "uninstalled" it and reinstalled it via DIM and it did sucessfully install...

 

For me Daz Studio suddenly stopped working, the taskbar icon was blank. In the DIM, both postgresql and daz studio prompt to update, but apparently fail to with the -1 bytes note afterwards; a refresh just prompts to install again.

^Like WandW, I'm not using any 3rd party antivirus, and I've never modified these directories or their folder permissions. I've deleted them and reinstalled, no luck.

 

This has happened several times in the past too, I was never able to resolve it, and I've eventually given up and reinstalled windows each time.

 

This is a recurring problem since before Covid, smells like registry corruption. I've been using new (less than a year old) SSDs the last few times this has happened, so I don't think it's my hardware.

Is the C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 directory and files still there?