Speed up DAZ Studio
punisher_1700138904
Posts: 33
What is the best way to speed up Daz Studio? Specifially:
1) Content database.. If I click on all under products or files, it takes a while to load everything (sometimes over 2 minutes), then if I do a search and then delete the search text it takes another minute or so to re-populate.
2) Loading items (characters, props, scenes, etc). This can also take some time. some characters take 1-2 minutes to load in and the more I load, the slower it gets (obviously)
Based on my questions and specs below, is there anything I can do to speed Daz up? Would an SSD help noticably? If so, would I need to have everything on it (Program, content database, runtime)? What is an SSD runtime isn't feasible, but the other two things are?
My current specs running 4.9 Pro
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System Information
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Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.151019-1254)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 49152MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 49098MB RAM
Page File: 10065MB used, 137226MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 980
Display Memory: 3725 MB
Dedicated Memory: 4008 MB
Shared Memory: 3813 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (120Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: GN246HL
Monitor Id: ACR02F9
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 980
Display Memory: 3725 MB
Dedicated Memory: 4008 MB
Shared Memory: 3813 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Acer H233H
Monitor Model: Acer H233H
Monitor Id: ACR00A0
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: HDMI
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Comments
A lot of it has to do with how fast your hard drives are, rather than system memory and video cards. Even then, there is also the slight time lag from when something actually loads into Studio and the time it appears in the viewport.
OK, Lets say I upgrade to SSD, what NEEDS to go there to speed that up? Just the database? The program? the runtime? I could easily get my program and database on an SSD, but the runtime is too large unless I get an expensive SSD.
Minimal...database.
Ideal...database and program.
Ultimate...all of it (but you would need a very large SSD...content has a way of eating up drive space...kind of like a group of college kids at an all you can eat pizza bar).
Yeah, my current runtime is 1.01TB and over 3million files.
will the database and program install be a noticable improvement on an SSD without the runtime moving to an SSD as well?
OS/DAZ Studio/database on the SSD, Runtime on its own high speed drive, and regular defragmenting of the Runtime's drive is probably going to be the best approach I can think of.
This is more of a question than a suggestion, but can you split your content into different Runtimes, the way you can in Poser?
Would that help?
How many!?
Crikey. Mine is 75 GB and 125,000 files. I thought that was a lot. Oy.
Tim.
I'm lucky too my Smith Micro Animate Studio Pro, Poser Pro 2014, and DAZ Studio 4.9 libraries total less than 30GB. I think my Unity 3D Asset is more than that. My system SSD is only 223GB so I had to buy an SSD to USB adaptor for my old 80GB SSD and use if for my Windows 10 'Library' folders.