DAZ 4.8 now slow to render

Jayne Wilson

Sorry if this has been discussed before.  I did a quick search and didn't see a post with the same problem, but may have missed it.

I'm using DAZ 4.8 on a Mac OS10.10.  Until recently, I never really had any problems with my rendering speed.  If it was a little bit slow at least I could see things moving along.

For some reason, the last couple of things I have tried to render have just stalled out.  This is using figures I have rendered before with no problems - DAZ Horse 2 and Genesis Female 2.  In both cases my scene only consisted of the figure and a backdrop, using 3Delight render engine.  Each time, the render screeches to a halt as soon as it hits the figure in question.  I left it going the other day and went off to do something else, thinking I was just being impatient, but after two hours, it still hadn't rendered ANY of the figure.

I've tried it with progressive rendering on and off, and tried different bucket orders - horizontal, spiral etc. 

Does anyone have any idea what may have changed to make this happen?  Are there any other adjustments I can make?  Last time I was able to finish a render was Jan 11.

TIA for any advice.

frogimus

Did you let DIM update any of the figures or hair?

Jayne Wilson

No I don't think so.  The hair and character I was trying to render this evening were the same I rendered without any problems on Jan 11.  Would it tell me if I need to update something?

Jayne Wilson

I tried a couple of things -- tried a render without any lights.  Bit gloomy, but it did render.

Then I tried another render with one of the Lantios light presents and that worked too, so then I tried a render with the Predatron Essential Lights -- the same ones that have been giving me trouble -- and it worked.

So the problem seems to be fixed, at least for now.