Anyone with 50+ G3F characters have slow load times for base G3F figure?

AlienRenders

I got a new machine and I'm still experiencing slow load times of G3F base characters. Around 1 minute. Sometimes it takes more than 2 minutes. This is loading a single base G3F character into an empty scene. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

 

TheKD

I don't know if I got 50 or not, but yeah, my load times is usually 1-2 minutes. I recently upgraded to i5 7500, nice mobo and 16gb ddr4 ram @3300.

fastbike1

I have well more than 50. This was the subject of a recent thread, so in that thread I timed the opening of several DAZ Original and PA products. While it seems like a long time, they all loaded in 20 seconds or less.

i7 4700k, 32GBram Win 74 64 bit.

glaseye

AFAIK, every (G3F) character sold here has a custom head- and/or body morph, so every one adds to the 'gene-pool', just as morph-packs do. When loading G3F, base or preset, DS will also load the (references to) those morphs, so the more morph-packs and character-morphs installed, the longer the loading time.

AlienRenders

I had opened a ticket and was told I was the only one where this happened. I have bought a new machine (Ryzen 7 1800x with 64GB RAM) since and am still having the same issue. I would be happy with 20 seconds. I'm not sure what the difference would be. 

@fastbike1: Is your content folder on your C drive?

 

nicstt

It takes a few seconds, usually less than 15ish to load a default character I have set up, so not default; hair, basic clothes, sometimes a geocraft, and some applied morphs.

Check what the log is saying: Help > Troubleshooting > View Log File.

What's interesting is that I have over a minute for the default G3F; checking the log file, there are a lot of warnings over various missing items (morph related it looks like some look like GenX that I have deleted)

It would be interested to know how to get rid of those; I have characters set up as subsets that load via scripts, so hadn't noticed.

Padone

When working with DS, I would rather keep assets offline and install in the Content folder only the assets I need for the current project. But this is just my way of working ..

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/160186/do-i-need-daz-postgre-sql-cms
 

fastbike1

@AlienRenders  "@fastbike1: Is your content folder on your C drive?"

No. My C drive is a smallish SSD. Only has Windows and the things the refuse to install somewhere else.

Studio is on an internal 5400 rpm drive and my content is on an external USB 3 drive.

To anticipate a possible follow-up, my installed content is 490 GB.

I should have added that, like nicstt, opening base G3F takes almost twice as long as other figures (38 sec).

AlienRenders

Ok, good to know that G3F base is taking longer. I will experiment with other figures. Recently, loading G3F base has gone down to under 30s. I didn't change anything. Unfortunately, now iRay is messed up. It renders 5000 iterations even on an empty scene in the viewport. And when using the "Rendering Quality" at 95%, it stops WAY too early. It's all grainy no matter the scene. It didn't do this before. So this iRay issue in the viewport is causing extra delays. As for the initial load times, I was told that having the content on a different drive than the C drive is what's reponsible for the slowdown. That does not seem to be true though. I have checked the log file. There is nothing unusual there.

 

fastbike1

@AlienRenders "As for the initial load times, I was told that having the content on a different drive than the C drive is what's reponsible for the slowdown."

That's the problem with forums, lot's of advice, some of which is correct.

AlienRenders

fastbike1 said:

@AlienRenders "As for the initial load times, I was told that having the content on a different drive than the C drive is what's reponsible for the slowdown."

That's the problem with forums, lot's of advice, some of which is correct.

I was told this in a DAZ ticket.

nonesuch00

AlienRenders said:

I had opened a ticket and was told I was the only one where this happened. I have bought a new machine (Ryzen 7 1800x with 64GB RAM) since and am still having the same issue. I would be happy with 20 seconds. I'm not sure what the difference would be. 

@fastbike1: Is your content folder on your C drive?

 

If you've spent that kind of money just probably have an SSD with all your DAZ and modeling content and also for your OS? Since you don't that is the reason for the slow down. Mine is especially slow when the external 5400rpm USB 3.0 drive is asleep and must be woke up to access.

fastbike1

My comment still stands. I already mentioned that Studio itself is not installed on the C drive in my case. Same for nonesuch00.

AlienRenders said:

fastbike1 said:

@AlienRenders "As for the initial load times, I was told that having the content on a different drive than the C drive is what's reponsible for the slowdown."

That's the problem with forums, lot's of advice, some of which is correct.

I was told this in a DAZ ticket.

 

AlienRenders

nonesuch00 said:

AlienRenders said:

I had opened a ticket and was told I was the only one where this happened. I have bought a new machine (Ryzen 7 1800x with 64GB RAM) since and am still having the same issue. I would be happy with 20 seconds. I'm not sure what the difference would be. 

@fastbike1: Is your content folder on your C drive?

 

If you've spent that kind of money just probably have an SSD with all your DAZ and modeling content and also for your OS? Since you don't that is the reason for the slow down. Mine is especially slow when the external 5400rpm USB 3.0 drive is asleep and must be woke up to access.

Having everything on SSD makes no difference.