How well could this computer use DAZ?
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I recently got a new computer.
Windows 7 -64 bit
16 GB Ram
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @3.60 Hz
Intel (R) HD Graphics 4600
Never really done any 3D stuff before. I'm just giving it a look and trying to find out if its worth it before I download something I might not be able to use or have it damage my computer.
I've read the system requirments, and some other posts, do if I'm understanding it correctly, I should be able to download and run DAZ but it won't be as quick without the Navida Card.
I do some graphic work with photoshop and flash -or Animate as it is called now, so I thought it might be cool to have some 3d figures to work with. Maybe not whole movies, but some quick scenes or at least have some figures to build and pose.
I'm sorry, but I aslo have a very basic understanding of the computer's techincals. So straightforward answers and layman's terms would be helpful.
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It can handle well lit scenes with one or two character if you use high quality HRDIs for lighting in about 4 hours for a reasonably good render at FHD. If you try UHD it will take, long, long time. You need nVidia newest & greatest video card and Windows 10 with DirectX 12 to be able to do a scene like that at UHD in OK amount of time.
Those specs are nearly the same as my laptop except I have an i5 and 4000 graphics. It runs DAZ Studio Iray fine, just don't expect too many short renders :) All will depend on the actual scene. I have had some render in 30 minutes and others 2 days :)
Apologies if this is too basic...
Studio has a choice of renderers built-in.
The one it's had from the beginning is called 3Delight, it's a very flexible renderer and can produce all kinds of results from cartoon to photo-realistic. It only uses your i7 for computation. Your system would have no problems running 3Delight.
The recently added renderer is Iray, that's built to be photo-realistic from the ground up. It can use an nVidia graphics card to accelerate the computation. I would say that a GPU is actually necessary for Iray not optional!
Depending on the type of artwork you want, you can choose the appropriate renderer. If you find Iray more to your taste then you could always add an appropriate graphics card later.
3D rendering is intensive on hardware, but all computers are designed to be able to run at 100%, 24/7. Unless you've made the terrible mistake of buying a laptop!
If you're worried about the load, there is lots of free monitoring software out there that you could use during your first few renders, to keep an eye on the computers various temperatures and fan speeds.
My laptop runs 24/7 and does 2 day renders and I can work in Bryce and render or open up DAZ Studio 4.8 and set up another render while it is doing that :) It doesn't always run smoothly and one of the renders can stop and DAZ or Bryce closes down, they do that occasionally even when rendering on their own. I have also been known to do image or video processing in the background too as well as web surfing and emails. At the moment I have a noisy fan which keeps stopping, replacement on its way, but a little bit of vegetable oil on the spindle is keeping it going just now :) I also had to replace the hard drive as Windows was telling me it was failing; the laptop is about five years old so no shame for it, but now that I know it wasn't that which was making the noise I will try it in another laptop I have with a dead drive in it and see what happens :) My tower is due an upgrade too, it is still running XP 32 bit, 4GB of memory, an old AMD processor, an old motherboard and four hard drives. It is at least ten years since its last upgrade and runs 24/7/365 too :)
I work my machines hard but all in all they cope pretty well considering :)
LOL, I thought you might notice that.
2 day renders... that's just a quick test render for Bryce isn't it?
Two of my latest. I let both run for around 17 hours, 80% done roughly. Lighting was Dome HDRI and Emissive on the 'cones' and the globe on the staff. Victoria 3 and Frost Lords rendered in Iray.
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