- Jun 18, 2020
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No, the only thing that needs ressources is rendering - but that is the only thing that doesn't need you to sit in front of it while it's working. It's one of the skills you need - organizing and planning your work to be effective. The rest works on any Windows PC with 8GB RAM. With less on Linux. And even with render - your render take time with a slower PC but you learn to be effective, like rendering background and chars separate. Scene Optimizer and camera optimizer with DAZ are some nice tools to make your render to need less VRAM. Some assets available for DAZ are absolute idiotic. For example there is a pen(!) with a 4k resolution - no problem to reduce that to 512 and still have great details. Or a scene with no close up of the char don't need the char with 8k - 1k could be enough. Or why highres nipples when the char s clothed ? Important is RAM and a CPU with many threads - 16gb RAM are minimum, better are more than 32GB. I have robbed a second PC of 16GB and now have 48GB, but I'm searching for a cheap 64GB RAM set to get 96GB in my main system. My GPU is an old GTX750ti and it works, because DAZ use the CPU to render if you don't have enough VRAM, but enough RAM. I made a 30s. 720p animation in the DAZ Skill thread and it took 23h to render (30s a 30frames = 900 render) with my Ryzen7 1700. And about CPU - I prefer Ryzen above Intel and an old Ryzen 1700 with 16threads is more helpful than a 10th gen i7 with 12threads. Need 70W less power with 4 more threads and if you have a system running 5h for one render that is important. You can even restrict DAZ using all threads. You can say use 12 threads and use the left 4 threads to use still an editor like Atom (I use pspad because it got more options, it's faster and need less memory) to code and/or run Ren'py or surf the web......
For gears: You need an ubermachine, yes you can do with crap, but it will quickly shot your motivation when you realize how limited you are by your computer.
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If you let your PC render when you are not using it you don't need to babysit your PC for rendering and while sleeping or working it doesn't matter if the render take 12h or 5h and if you use a batch render tool you can let your PC do more than one render when you are sleeping and at work. For example you work 8h and sleep 8h. Maybe go to bed at 10pm and let the PC start render. Sleep, goto school/work and be able to do something again in the evening. That is enough time for your PC to render.