Progress Report
Added 2025-03-24 05:03:43 +0000 UTCUmmm...darn it. I was doing so good about on time progress reports, the completely let this one slip for a fully week. I'm sorry T-T...
Left Hand Magic
Good and bad here. I'm done with the four 'extras' and decided to tackle the alternate Drone Scene from Arianna's Route first. Unfortunately, that's where the bad comes in as it's been fighting me. I can't get the render times down to something reasonable, and I'm still not sure why. At this point I'm 100% sure I'm only going to get the one alternate scene done for her route as a result. Annoying, but still within expectations assuming I can figure out just why what is going on with the renders. I've been having more and more similar trouble, to the point I suspect Daz3d might have updated something that's causing scenes to blow up in size over the limits of my current GPU.
Frustratingly Nivida's rampant incompetence means I've been stuck unable to upgrade, too. I'm not paying 3-4 grand for a previous generation card, let alone the 4-5 that scalpers are demanding for the new 5090s. Grrr. Well, I'll muscle through with what I have, even if it means I'm ending up more and more aggravated with render times that are creeping up despite me not changing anything.
Mixed Media Short
Rendering and post-processing is done, I'm actually doing the writing tonight. Hopefully, I'll wrap that up and be able to edit it tomorrow. With a little luck, I'll post Cara Loft 8 either the evening of the 24th or sometime on the 25th.
Short Story
Haven't gotten back around to this yet, it's next up for writing projects after I get done with writing/editing Cara Loft 8.
Comments
Huh, I looked it up out of pure curiosity and you're literally right. A standard one ounce gold bar is currently hovering around $3.037.978 USD. Where scalpers are regularly charging 3,500-4,000 for the 5090. Wow, just...wow. Huh, good to know that I'm not the only one having issues with Daz and Nivida. I'm almost certain it's Daz, since my hardware hasn't changed and I very deliberately don't upgrade my drivers until I have to, due to them occasionally having major stability issues with new GPU drivers. Also, more to the point as evidence goes, almost all of the issues started when Daz launched their new 'Premiere' version of Daz3D >_<. Which was a stupidly unneeded complication to their software.
Novus
2025-03-26 03:32:07 +0000 UTCIt seems a 5090 is more valuable than a gold bar right now π. And here, you cannot get one at all π. Everyone in the industry is having trouble with Daz right now. Daz is blaming Nvidia and Nvidia is blaming Daz and in the meantime, nothing gets fixed π. While I am inclined to believe Nvidia more (because their hardware works on everything else), I am still no expert. At the moment my real life crap has me so busy, I have only played this game 1 hour this entire week so you will get no pressure from me π!
Merlin
2025-03-24 16:16:44 +0000 UTC
