No startup scene appears in DazStudio 4.6

colindo2000

Hi

I've installed Daz Studio 4.6 - but upon running the application nothing appears on the screen.

The message "Reading asset" appears for a second and then the program just sits at the bottom of the taskbar.

All I can do is activate the Function keys F1, F2 (Preferences) etc

Under the startup tab in Preferences - I've set the Load File to:

Documents/Daz3D/Studio/My Library/PeopleGenesis/Genesis.duf

I unzipped the the downloaded GenesisStarter Essentials zip folder, and copied and pasted all the folders from within the Content folder to Documents/Daz3D/My Libary folder.

I've uninstalled and installed around 12-15 times. Manual and using the Daz Install Manager - still no difference.

Tried several 'fresh installs' by cleaning out all remaining files from AppData/Program data - used RevoUninstaller to remove DAZ registry entries - before reinstalling.

Am I overlooking something?

Thanks for reading.

Lissa_xyz

You have 2 locations in your post.

Documents/Daz3D/Studio/My Library
and
Documents/Daz3D/My Library

Which one is the mapped library that Genesis is installed to?

Also, is your file location actually missing the / between People and Genesis, or is that just a typo?

SpottedKitty

You've missed some more starter content installers — Default Lights and Shaders, and the Genesis 2 Female and Male (ignore the PoserCF files).

Lissa_xyz

SpottedKitty said:

You've missed some more starter content installers — Default Lights and Shaders, and the Genesis 2 Female and Male (ignore the PoserCF files).

The G2F/G2M aren't required unless you plan on using them, and in either case wouldn't affect loading up Genesis.duf

colindo2000

Thanks for the responses.

The installed path (for content) is:

Documents/Daz3D/Studio/My Library

There was at typo in my original post. The load file at startup is set to:

Documents/Daz3D/Studio/My Library/People/Genesis/Genesis.duf

I forgot to mention - that the same problem began with the previous version of Daz Studio.

The previous version was working OK, but I hadn't used it for months.. Then last week I decided to load it up - and that's when I noticed this problem of no start-up screen appearing. That's why I installed the latest version hoping for a fix. But exactly the same problem remains.

Lissa_xyz

Does Genesis itself load if you load it from the library?

Jaderail

Silly question, in Prefs is it set to ON?

colindo2000

By loading from the library - do you mean if if double-click the Genesis.duf file within MyLibrary/People/Genesis? Yes it loads -but same problem - Daz Studio remains minimized on taskbar -see attachment.

In preferences - yes it says 'on Launch' with the Load file check box ticked.

Jaderail

That appears to be some type of SYSTEM setting. Only they can auto run Programs in Minimized mode and keep them locked that way. It does not look to be a DAZ Studio issue.

fixmypcmike

Can you load Genesis from the Content Library or Smart Content?

Lissa_xyz

colindo2000 said:

By loading from the library - do you mean if if double-click the Genesis.duf file within MyLibrary/People/Genesis? Yes it loads -but same problem - Daz Studio remains minimized on taskbar -see attachment.

In preferences - yes it says 'on Launch' with the Load file check box ticked.

Have you tried clicking on the taskbar icon to maximize the window?

I know Poser has the bring window to front option, but I don't know if DS does or not.

Jaderail

DAZ Studio does do bring to front from Taskbar. I use it all day that way. The program should not default to minimized on start. And that is a OS setting and not controlled by anything in DAZ Studio or it's settings.

cm152335

the problem is the "content"

"content" is the supposed "library"

examples:
if your dazdata are located to "My Library"
you must copy "Data" - "people"- "support" and all folder in your "My Library"

for my use all based dazdata are located to "X_Library"
i copy data - people - support,,, in X_Library

another way is to keep the user library name to "content" instead of My Library
and copy the new download content on content.

Jaderail

I'm fully lost. Is DAZ Loading Minimized and that is a issue? Or is the DEFAULT genesis not loading at start?

colindo2000

Daz Studio begins to load - reading asset - but then nothing appears on the screen - apart from the entry in the taskbar (see previous screenshot), which doesn't respond to any left-clicks with the mouse. Right-click just prompts to pin it taskbar or open Daz again - which just repeats the same all over again. (see screenshot)

Only the function keys respond - to bring up menus (preferences/help guide/customize daz studeio). But the program remains totally unusable.

I have all the relevant content folders (People/Data/Light Presets etc) within the My Library folder - where it should be.

I'm also thinking it's a problem with the system (I'm using Windows 7 64 bit - and I installed the correct 64bit version) - however I have no idea how to solve this issue.

Thanks again for reading.