In fact, I think most of what I've done so far in Daz has been CPU-based, because of the extremely small amount of (non-upgradable) memory on the nVidia card inside my late 2012 iMac. I've seen it said a number of times that iRay rendering doesn't require nVidia hardware it can be done strictly with CPU rather than GPU. I'm to the point where I am pretty well forced to make the jump to a newer Mac, including upgrading to a Mac OS that no longer supports nVidia/Cuda stuff.

With that said:Īpple's war with nVidia, and Daz's dedication to it, has really thrown major roadblocks across any upgrade path for my wheezing Mac, in terms specifically of doing animation using Daz Studio. For a massive list of reasons, I am heavily invested in Mac for absolutely necessary collaboration compatibility, and client compatibility, in a variety of professional pursuits not Daz-centric, including print, audio, and video production. I'll start off by asking politely to keep 'get a PC/Windows machine' advice, in any version, out of this thread.

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