yvesab posted at 2:20 PM Fri, 21 March 2025 - #2991923

Hi all,

I'm posting here because it's a little more tolerant than the Daz forum...

Firstly, the Daz "premier" thing is worrying me : Is it a little step to a rental scheme ? 200 USD a year is quite a lot for my limited income.

No. There are new features (or modified vesions of old PA plug-ins, which still work if you have them) enabled by Premier membership but nothing has been removed from the Base/Pro versions - indeed new stuff has been added.

Then G9 is an absolute memory hog, and it seems they were not prepared for Nividia 5 series, Not to speak of the price of an out of stock 5090. 

Daz is fully supporting the new cards - that is, the stuff Daz has control over (dForce, Filament)  works. Iray has had a wait for Iray support in every new card set since it was added to DS; in this case the first supporting version, 2024.0, had serious bugs and was not be added to DS while the next version, 2024.1, uses a new compile system which cannot be made to work with DS 4.x.x.x. As  a result Iray will not be available until the next major version of DS.

Opening a relatively simple scene takes several minutes, and closing the program is also extremely slow. I regularly have crashes, I suppose that even the official releases are semi-beta.

Hopefully people will be able to figure this out if you continue to give more information. The original statement didn't really give anything to go on, though load times in gernal have been worked on and, for most users, improved.

All in all, it's quite a bunch of money and time for a hobbyist use.

So I'm looking for the same type of software : I'm very sorry to say that Poser is aging (I have P13), Blender has a too steep learning curve for my aging brain, Cinema 4D seems more user-friendly but way out of my financial reach.

Any suggestion ?

Thanks