>>7603
No, I'm not really "serious enough" about mucking around with a free download 3D modelling package to basically buy a brand new computer for it, no. Especially when the CPU itself is reasonably strong, and the integrated GPU is on a level with a lot of discrete cards from 5-ish years ago when people had already been using programs like this for a couple decades already.

Is there no kind of software-only or low-quality mode that I can set it into just for putting scenes together? I don't particularly give too much of a shit about how long the rendering takes. Or even if it looks any good to start with. Just want to see what I might be able to do with it, without spending hundreds of pounds only to find out that the answer is "nothing much".

The main problem doesn't seem to be hardware power after all, it seems to be more of a software problem. Sometimes the intel graphics driver, but more often Daz just causes an access violation or other kind of crash within its own modules. Which seems pretty stupid really... no kind of worthwhile exception handling or anything, and maybe doesn't bother checking what the hardware is capable of before trying to preview or render... then when the gpu throws a "unknown instruction" error it just dies instead of reverting to either software rendering or drawing black pixels and popping up a "your hardware is too shit" dialogue box.

It's not like I'm trying full-on print quality IRay renders or anything, just trying to get to a point where I can put a posed character in front of a background with hair, clothes, and maybe a prop, and save it without the program falling over. It can't even manage to save the current scene a lot of the time, suggesting there's something seriously wrong with it. Hell, can't even get through the included tutorial because first time through it crashed whilst trying to apply the prescribed outfit to the prescribed figure, and now it can't find either of them in the Smart Objects menu...

Maybe I'll just toss it and try SFM instead, even though that's a stupidly huge install that'll take all day and night to download and consume a considerable proportion of my remaining drive space.

...it wouldn't be too stupid a question to ask if 4gb RAM (3-ish usable) with a conservative limit on the shared VRAM window is too little memory, would it, given that they actually provide a 32bit version after all?