A refreshing new start.

A couple of weeks before the crunch for releasing Domina's Valley 27 there was a little big problem haunting me here: storage.

I prepared everything, I did the release, waited the feedback for a day and, it was time to do it!

Despite of having a good setup, my worries were growing more and more due to the lack of variety on component available and new surprises every time I tried to give the next step.

Almost 1 month of research, preparations and new challenges, wishing to do the best not simply resolving it but making a future proof upgrade, if possible, improving my workflow.

I was challenged in every point: installation, backup, online backup, computer accessories, outdated programs, worked my ass of a way to access the old installation to salvage important preferences because the backup refused to mount the drive and all this while working on the chapter and creating 2 backups of everything because my online one is kicking me out and my not-so-old external drive was "spacing out" sometimes.

Luckily, it all worked out and I have a little monster holding my 3D content now. The decision for a nvme instead of a bigger drive was simple: there was no reliable Hard Drives available in Brazil, at least not on reliable partners. The exit was bringing to this system the setup I was aiming in the next computer, so this would be also a test run for it.

Everybody knows that Ryzen+ is still laggy and unresponsive compared to Intel on the latency side, still very fast on rendering, meaning that IPR (real time raytrace light rendering) while posing was a no go since the upgrade: it lags to hell and takes ages for a new IPR preview to begin, and this was my main concern since I upgraded, so, now I was aiming only to speed up loading and saving huge scenes.

Downloaded the last W10, Nvidia Studio, other drives and went for a clean installation on my main drive. Changed a couple of thing for testing (I could remake the process if necessary) and then... what???

Suddenly, IPR was responsive AF.

Not sure if it is because the dependencies are on a faster drive but, even got the other projects opening normally on top of it, zero crashes :D 

So, here's a bonus render so we can celebrate together.