Daz Studio and Linux

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited August 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    nicstt said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Mattymanx said:

    The main problem with doing linux support is time versus value.  In the desktop and laptop market, Windows (all versions) holds the largest market share of all OS'es and OSX (all versiosns) comes in second.  Linux is a distant third.  It is smart for a company to program for the OS'es that have the largest market share in order to target the largest number of users. 

     

    The only way I can see Daz doing a linux version is if they just concentrated on supporting the base versions of which Debain and Slackware appear to be the largest - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

    While I am a Linux user, I only use it for online access and keep my windows 10 machine offline most of the time.  I would not use or support a linux version of Ds.

    ...my issue is I would not use or support W10 as most of the built in features are useless for me the ones I need now cost extra and their ham fisted update policy that (as I said on ZD net today) assumes everyone has the IQ of a banana slug when it comes to maintaining their systems. 

    They should have just built off of W7 instead of destroy the good thing they had, as they did with that "one size OS fits all" concept of W8, and now, the heavy handed approach to pushing W10 on everyone. 

    Most likely when W7 reaches its EOL, I'll have to pull the plug on Net access for the workstation and jump through several more hoops for installing content, updates, plugins, and uploading pics to here and my gallery site. I can easily put Linux on one of the notebooks just to do direct online stuff.

    That's what I am doing now, and it's really not a problem. Just an extra step or two if you already manually install content. The end of support for Win7 doesn't mean the end of usefulness, just keep the box offline and it will keep working without any problems.

    Since my art computer will never again go online, I doubt I'll even notice when the Win7 support ends.

    The issue with this, is that MS have stated they will not roll out support for new processors on anything but W10.

    I've actually removed W10 from a new Laptop, and repalced it with 8.1, which I'm not keen on, but support for 8.0 has stopped. I'm the only user that prefers 8.0 to 7. /shrug I won't use the Laptop for Daz, even though it's a powerful laptop, it is still a laptop. It has an i7 and a variant of the 970 in it. Almost went for the 980ti, but realised I wouldn't be using it for rendering anyway.

    MS shot themselves in the foot though, by not allowing me to upgrade the home version of W10 with a valid key to the Professional version, they have lost me. I contacted MS, and after seeing what was wrong, I was told the only way to change the Laptop from home to professional was to spend £180!

    It is even crazier when the laptop actually has an enabled TPM chip for encryption.

    ...so does that mean just CPUs or GPUs as well?

    That's a decission for AMD and Nvidia; however, as said by Mambanegra, they could be indirectly affected; I can't see that though, at least from AMD.

    kyoto kid said:

    ...we really need Linux then. I will not have W10 infect any system I currently have or build in the future.


    Agree.

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  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65
    edited August 2016
    GumpOtaku said:

    I am now pleased to report that DIM and DS 4.9 x64 can run on Zorin OS (another Ubuntu-based distro) 100%.

    First per the instructions, I installed all necessary files unto a PoL virtual machine running Windows 2003 on the latest Wine staging. DIM can download AND install things (except programs.)  I have yet to go through the paces of DS to see what's missing and what's not. You will be informed.

    ~GO :D

    Super Sweet.  Now was that Zorin 9 or Zorin 11 as I have two systems each with one of those versions.

    Oh and Zorin 12 should be out soon.

    For those looking to jump to linux and try zorin go to http://zorinos.com/

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  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65
    edited August 2016
    kyoto kid said:

    ...we really need Linux then. I will not have W10 infect any system I currently have or build in the future.

    Same here, the more you hear of what MS is doing with Win10, the more you want to run from it.

    Apparently on the 1 year anniversery of Win10's launch, they put out an update that removes some more control from the user.

    Link to arcticle about policies removed

    And made their digital spy, one you can not disable anymore.

    Cortana cant be disabled article Link

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  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,433

    Also if you don't know all search functions use Bing that includes any search you do for a folder or file on your system

  • GumpOtaku said:

    I am now pleased to report that DIM and DS 4.9 x64 can run on Zorin OS (another Ubuntu-based distro) 100%.

    First per the instructions, I installed all necessary files unto a PoL virtual machine running Windows 2003 on the latest Wine staging. DIM can download AND install things (except programs.)  I have yet to go through the paces of DS to see what's missing and what's not. You will be informed.

    ~GO :D

    I would be interested in what works and what doesn't.

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,433
    nicstt said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...and the pro-W10 crowd calls people like me, "control freaks". Sheesh.

    Useless features like Cortana are now a full integrated  part of the OS while they've made actual useful utilities like a DVD burner and a Media player optional (pay for) apps  

    Crikey why would anyone in their right mind waste 199$ for the Pro version fi you are stuck with the same rubbish you get in the Home Edition?

    To paraphrase an old song:

    ...I owe my soul to the Windows App Store

    haha

    my friends call me too paranoid.

    My response, "It's not paranoia when they are out to get us."

    Amen

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    kyoto kid said:

    ...and the pro-W10 crowd calls people like me, "control freaks". Sheesh.

    Useless features like Cortana are now a full integrated  part of the OS while they've made actual useful utilities like a DVD burner and a Media player optional (pay for) apps  

    Crikey why would anyone in their right mind waste 199$ for the Pro version fi you are stuck with the same rubbish you get in the Home Edition?

    To paraphrase an old song:

    ...I owe my soul to the Windows App Store

    Well, RDP is one reason. I got a home edition with my recent computer purchase and I regret that I didn't have the option to pay an extra $100 bucks or something to get the pro version. 

    And...cortana is anything but useless! MS is going to get tons of information about you and make a lot of money as long as you don't prevent it from doing so. And, it also boosts Bing's pitiful hit count by driving lots of hits from desktop searches. It just happens to be useless to us;) 

    I have to admit, I don't follow most of the Windows 10 complaints, but my experience has been fairly 'meh', but it really hasn't been any different from my experience with windows 7 the few times that I used it. But, the last version of Windows that I actually used in any serious fashion was windows 2000. I did have a windows XP box for a while, but it spent most of it's time booted into a fedora desktop and only got booted up into Windows for Poser. I got a few windows computers at work, but they quickly got reformatted and became linux machines, so, I might have actually had a Windows 7 license or two. 

    This is why the Windows boxes here (and VMs) are blocked from getting to the internet completely.  No traffic out from them, no traffic in to them.  M$ gets no information from me.

    Kendall

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    edited August 2016
    kyoto kid said:

    ...and the pro-W10 crowd calls people like me, "control freaks". Sheesh.

    Useless features like Cortana are now a full integrated  part of the OS while they've made actual useful utilities like a DVD burner and a Media player optional (pay for) apps  

    Crikey why would anyone in their right mind waste 199$ for the Pro version fi you are stuck with the same rubbish you get in the Home Edition?

    To paraphrase an old song:

    ...I owe my soul to the Windows App Store

    Well, RDP is one reason. I got a home edition with my recent computer purchase and I regret that I didn't have the option to pay an extra $100 bucks or something to get the pro version. 

    And...cortana is anything but useless! MS is going to get tons of information about you and make a lot of money as long as you don't prevent it from doing so. And, it also boosts Bing's pitiful hit count by driving lots of hits from desktop searches. It just happens to be useless to us;) 

    I have to admit, I don't follow most of the Windows 10 complaints, but my experience has been fairly 'meh', but it really hasn't been any different from my experience with windows 7 the few times that I used it. But, the last version of Windows that I actually used in any serious fashion was windows 2000. I did have a windows XP box for a while, but it spent most of it's time booted into a fedora desktop and only got booted up into Windows for Poser. I got a few windows computers at work, but they quickly got reformatted and became linux machines, so, I might have actually had a Windows 7 license or two. 

    This is why the Windows boxes here (and VMs) are blocked from getting to the internet completely.  No traffic out from them, no traffic in to them.  M$ gets no information from me.

    Kendall

    Agreed. My Studio box has never been online since I validated Win7 and installed Studio 4.9, and it never will. Whether or not Microsquiff supports it, it does what I need it to do and will continue to do so. I will never use Win(Lose)10. When I go online, I use a Linux box.

    If your Windows 7 computer works well now, it will after MS stops supporting it. Just take it off line and keep it there. An older computer that will run Linux will cost you less than the Win10 upgrade, anyway.

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  • GumpOtakuGumpOtaku Posts: 106

    Ok, guys and gals,

    After about a week or so of testing, I believe I can be the first to come up with a comprehensive tutorial on how to run 64bit DS 4.9 on Ubuntu based distros (Ubuntu itself, Linux Mint, Debian) and Fedora Workstation 24. On Debian, knittingmommy's method works. On Linux Mint, Ubuntu proper, and Fedora a slimmed down version of the CupOfLinux procedure that knittingmommy deviated from works:

    1) using Winetricks with latest version of Wine
    2) installing the following components: vcrun2005, vcrun2010, and corefonts.

    Using the following method I install DIM and DS on Linux Mint Sarah (latest version) yesterday. Anyeay this is my method. I present this to the community for futher development and\or scrutiny.

    ~GO :D

  • Nice, and I think someone in another thread recommended setting the OS of wine to either Server 2003 or Server 2008

  • berriboyberriboy Posts: 172

    This was done on Manjaro Linux, everything straight out of the box.

    Used q4Wine as the wine front end, downloaded DAZ 4.9 and double clicked on the icon. Wine installed it and it works great, only problem is that the sql can't be found. For me it's not a problem as I don't use the smart content pane. I moved myLibrary to another drive before installing Manjero and just pointed DAZ to the new location.

    As you can see from the render it is the 64bit version of DAZ and iray works fine.

    Another great thing about Manjaro is the painless set up of the nVidia drivers. Blender, Octane Render and DAZ all detected my GTX780 CUDA Cores on installation with no problem.

    Haven't installed the Install Manager yet and probably wont try for a while, I have plenty in my library and with the difference in the dolar between Australi and the US I really can't aford to. Add about 35% to the US price for content and that how much it costs in Aus at the moment.

    Sorry it is not a very techie explanation on how I got things working but the truth is I didn't have to do anything real techie. So if you are thinking of moving to Linux, Manjaro might be for you.

    Note: I tried Ubuntu and Mint before Manjero and never got as far as having the nVidia drivers installed corectly for Blender to see my GTX780, just a lot of crashes and rebooting only to find the graphics not working at all, just a dark screen.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    ...interesting, I never use the Smart Content pane as I use a custom runtime and library structure on a second drive instead of the boot drive. I also don't like the fact smart content tends to take up a lot of screen real estate.

    I have been considering running a dual boot Linux/W7 setup but this is great news.

    I am shutting Windows Updates off tomorrow as MS is changing the policy for W7.and 8.1 users in October to where all new updates sill be rolled into one download and install file so you no longer can "cherry pick" which ones to accept or reject, just like with W10. To me it seems like a parting shot against those of us who held out on their "free offer".

    So are you using the latest beta release of 4.9?.

    Also let us know if you can get the DIM to work

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,168

    *Watching with interest*

    Laurie

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023
    edited October 2016

    ...question, as all my content are on a second library drive, will I need to back up, wipe, format, and reinstall everything on that drive again if I go with Manjaro and WIne?

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  • berriboyberriboy Posts: 172
    edited October 2016

    Hi kyoto kid,

    I am using DAZ 4.9.2.70, usually don't touch the Beta releases. All my content is on a second drive as well and it is an NTFS (windows native format) drive so I can't see a problem there, I would just unplug it untill after the Linux install. I use a 240GB SSD for my main drive so content has to be on another drive, it would take up to much room.

    One tip is to unplug all your hard drives except the one you want to put Linux on. This will save you a lot of frustation in case something goes wrong. My first attempt at installing Linux didn't go to well as I thought everything looked right and ended up loosing about 300GB of data of my 2TB drive. After that I unplug all the drives except the 240 ssd which is where I want the install to happen.

    One thing I have just noticed is, because daz can't connect to the sql it wont see content installed using the DAZ Connect Service, again I don't and never will use that so it isn't a problem.

    I thought I had a problem this morning when I started my PC, fired up DAZ and couldn't find any content. Only the drive with the system files on it mounts at boot, all other drives have to be mounted manually, which is just a mater of clicking on them in the file manager so remember to do that before starting DAZ.

    When directing DAZ to your Library it can be found using the file manager at  />run>media>User>DriveName>Library. / is the Root directory.

    Good luck if you try it, I have been wanting to get away from windows for a long time, 8 is hopeless and 10 is pathetic. I went back to 7 and was thinking tat MS wont suport it much longer and reading what you posted about the updates I am glad I did. The main thing stoping me was not being able to get DAZ to run on Linux in any stable way. Hopefully things have changed for the better, I have my fingers crossed.

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023
    edited October 2016

    ...so do you have to mount the other drives every time the system is started up or only once at the beginning?

    Don't have the DAZ 4.9.2.70 release as I heard of some issues people were having with it. I am running the Beta as I can do so concurrently without overwriting 4.8.

    I have no interest in Daz Connect either as I also use Carrara, which is not compatible with Daz DRM content.

    Because of Carrara and a number of other graphics programmes I use that are also Windows/Mac only, I will still need to go with the dual boot Linux/W7 option so I can use them as well.

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  • berriboyberriboy Posts: 172

    You have to mount the drives everytime the system starts up, but as I said all you need to do to mount a drive is to click on it in the file manager.

    When you get your dual boot system it might be fun to see if Carrara can run under wine.

    I have Adobe Design Premium 5.5 and one day will try to get Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks installed.

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  • The drives should remain mounted until you either unmount them or shut the system down at which point you'll have to remount them when you reboot

    There may be a way to have them automount at boot like there are in other distros

  • berriboyberriboy Posts: 172

    The drives should remain mounted until you either unmount them or shut the system down at which point you'll have to remount them when you reboot

    There may be a way to have them automount at boot like there are in other distros

    Thanks Robert, you can automount drives on Manjaro, I found it in System Settings - Hardware - Removable Devices.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Let's not have any app wars, please.  Keep the focus on how to get things working on Linux -- the reasons any particular member wants (or doesn't want) to use Linux are not the issue.

  • I am starting to think we should compile a Getting Daz to Work with WINE document made pulling all the info folks have made with there methods and progress.

    And if someone can figure out a fool proof WINE setup, we should look at making a PlayOnLinux install script so even more new and old linux users can have a look at DAZ in an easier way.

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,198

    Windows 10 has a new Ubuntu subsystem that allows native Linux programs to run in Windows 10.  Canonical/Ubuntu sold out.

    Kendall

    Having a real shell would be nice. Has anyone tried this? Does it offer ssh and scp? Is there a package manager to allow installation of basic gnu tools? I tried activating it in my headless machine, but it isn't showing up in the list of windows features. Either I have to reboot or it isn't available in the home version of 10. My version is higher than the version where it was listed as beta...so, it should be there....grrr

     

    I run CygWin for things like ssh and scp when I'm on Windows. I've even written Perl scripts in it.

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    edited October 2016

    My Windows 10 drive totally tanked the other day.  I don't know yet if I've lost everything since the last backup as I haven't looked.  I had just invested in another new HD for a Linux box so I completely took out the Windows 10 drive for now.  I'll look at it later once I get things squared away in Linux.

    So, I gave up trying to fix the version of Linux Mint 17 that I managed to totally trash my graphics while trying to get Tomb Raider running a few months ago.  I will forever regret trying to get that game to run since I completely and royally messed up all of my graphics and, as a result, my working version of DS 4.8 64 bit in Linux.  I put a fresh install of Linux Mint 18 (Sarah) on the brand new drive.  I downloaded and installed Wine 1.8 and tried to install just like I did over the summer which worked with DS 4.8.  Only this time I'm using DS 4.9 Public Build.  It isn't working.  I have DIM up and running no problems.  It seems to be able to successfully load and access my account at DAZ although still no cms which is fine with me.  I can handle manual downloads and installs offline.  

    Then, I try to install DS 4.9 and it seems to install, but when I try running it I get this error:

    I click okay and it tries to run and I get the splash screen and then I get this:

    The one time I was able to figure out how to see what was going on in the terminal it looks like it was hung up on kerner32.dll.  Since it is supposed to be running as a 64 bit program I'm not sure it should even be looking at that, but I could be wrong.  Complete greenhorn here.  I was able to trash a perfectly good distro, after all, that is supposed to be safer for people like me.  

    Anyway, I could use some advice.  Playonlinux is out because for some reason it isn't able to install anything 64 bit anymore.  I'm not sure why so I'm trying to install everything with Winetricks.  I'm assuming I'm missing a .dll or something that is needed, but I can't figure out what because I have the ones that worked last time: vcrun2005, vcrun2010, and corefonts,  d3dx9, and of the dotnet20 and dotnet40 (one of them doesn't want to install, dotnet40 I believe on a 64 bit system) so I only installed one of them, but as I recall, I didn't need either one last summer with DS 4.8.

    Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?  Thanks.  Oh, on a good note.  Tomb Raider in Steam seems to work now in LM18! I guess they fixed the graphics problem with my card.  Oh, and I was able to get DS 4.9 32 bit version working so I'm not completely without DS now, but I'd really like the 64 bit version working as I'm not all that great in 3Delight.

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  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65
    edited October 2016

    Each version of WINE is a bit different, can you recall which version you used when you had DAZ working?

    As some older versions run some software better then newer versions.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    I never had much luck with Wine 1.8.

    I'm currently running on a 1.9.9 with no problems and hadn't had any on any of the 1.9 versions from 1.9.4 onward.

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    edited October 2016

    Having thought about it, I think what I used before was 1.9.x, not sure which one I used.  I was thinking that 1.8 was the latest, but 1.9.20 is currently.  So, I uninstalled wine 1.8 from my system.  I installed wine 1.9.20 and redid everything with DIM and DAZ Studio 4.9.

    I'm happy to say that did the trick and I'm now the proud user of DS 4.9 with Iray once again in my Linux box.  I still have to work on installing content so I can set up a render, but that isn't happening tonight.  I'm quitting for the night before I mess anything up.

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  • GO TEAM GO!!!

    Ive never used Linux before, I know absolutely nothing about it, but if learning Linux means that I can finally escape MS/Apple land then im all for it. Anxiously looking forward to documantation!yeslaugh

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    ..Daz just needs to compile Studio, Carrara, Bryce, and Hexagon for Linux.

  •  

    Having thought about it, I think what I used before was 1.9.x, not sure which one I used.  I was thinking that 1.8 was the latest, but 1.9.20 is currently.  So, I uninstalled wine 1.8 from my system.  I installed wine 1.9.20 and redid everything with DIM and DAZ Studio 4.9.

    I'm happy to say that did the trick and I'm now the proud user of DS 4.9 with Iray once again in my Linux box.  I still have to work on installing content so I can set up a render, but that isn't happening tonight.  I'm quitting for the night before I mess anything up.

    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

  • kyoto kid said:

    ..Daz just needs to compile Studio, Carrara, Bryce, and Hexagon for Linux.

    I might be wrong. But I do recall Hexagon working fine on a 32bit wine prefix. At least no more crashes than on Windows. And since it still hasn't gotten a 64 bit upgrade...

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