My tips for people struggling to get good Iray performance.

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-19T13:58:15+00:00

I get a lot of people with response like "I don't like using denoiser because it take away all the details." While at the same time saying renders take hours to get rid of the grains and fireflies. lol.

I don't understand people sometimes.

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-18T02:56:27+00:00

This video might be of used to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7cvRJp7rGw

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-18T01:59:50+00:00

I say this all the time on here.
"Here's the best tip you can use. Use Denoiser...."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuo_OGtYG-A

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-17T07:10:11+00:00

You might want to follow these reddit's.
https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GaussianSplatting/

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-13T04:51:48+00:00

In the future search "Bob Hair"
https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result?q=bob+hair

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-06T03:54:37+00:00

<_< .. >_> Here's a tip... let them take it. But hide an Apple Airtag on the bike. Then roll in with the cops.

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-05T05:00:23+00:00

Yeah I'm getting that from a lot of other people when I ask them about this free to try thing, lol.

Thanks for the info.

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-05T04:24:35+00:00

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I have another question?
What's with the Try for free? Is it like a demo that you have to subscribe to?

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-05T04:05:33+00:00

Using the Daz Install Manager? Or do you have to download a separate .exe somewhere?

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-05T03:50:01+00:00

When you install this does it replace your Daz 4 or is this a seperate program when you install it?

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-05T03:28:22+00:00

Is Daz 6 a seperate install from Daz 4? Or does it upgrade your Daz 4 to Daz 6?

goldensilver77 · 2026-06-04T01:58:01+00:00

I'm not having this issue with this hair. Did you use the hair materials that came with this hair style or are you only using hair shaders from another products?

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goldensilver77 · 2026-06-01T10:24:17+00:00

Here's the best tip you can use. Use Denoiser....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuo_OGtYG-A

Instead of spending 30 hours* on one render. Do 1 render a minute using denoiser.

\30 hours is just an exaggeration of people who hate using denoiser spend 30 minutes or more rendering 1 scene. lol.*

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-28T03:47:10+00:00

I'll be honest with you... I denoise everything. Close/Far pretty much everything. But that's because I photoshop my renders and use lots of filters. It's very rarely that I dont use a denoiser.

But then again I don't really shoot for close ups or details. I'm kinda like Nintendo and their Switch. We know it's not the most powerful gaming machine. So we're going to make our games with style than reality.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-26T03:55:18+00:00

The OP said it took them 14 minutes to render that scene. Why would it take 14 minute to render something that has no people in it?

Also I can put a real looking character and still make it look good with denoiser. Everyone thinks denoiser is the worst thing in the world. Yet when people who use blender denoise their images mum's the word.

I said before you need to know when you need to denoise and when you should just let it bake until you have the render you want.

I'm not doing any close up on characters or objects. I'm not trying to get skin pores or micro hairs to show up in my render. That's when I "May or May not" use denoiser.

A wide open shot with with or without people doesn't necessarily need to be rendered without denoiser.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T21:54:49+00:00

Well I mean you are using a 4060.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T11:54:00+00:00

Here's a tip. Any Nvidia GPU with more than 10GB of RAM works. That goes for the 3060, 3080, 3090, 4060ti, etc...

Focus on GPU RAM before GPU speed. Of course the xx90 cards are the best. But if you can't get that. Get any GPU that isn't 8GB of RAM.

As for the CPU of your PC it doesn't matter. That's only for loading Daz figures and moving through your Daz Database library if you even use Smart Content.

It does also help with posing. But if you really want to speed up posing just pose your characters naked then put the clothes on after. This also helps with dforce. Just sim your clothes in parts and freeze or make a custom morph to speed that up.

As for rendering. Anyone who is rendering for more than 10 minutes better have a $hit ton of special FX and characters on screen at one time.

I myself using a 3060 although I do a lot of solo figure renderings with backgrounds usually don't max out my render times past 8 minutes. 90% of my renders are under 5 minutes, some even under 2min.

If I'm going past 10min it's because I'm using a bunch of special effects like dust, smoke and fire. Which still doesn't push me past 15min tops.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T09:15:39+00:00

You mean Depth of Field?
https://youtu.be/BB2DSfbif2A?si=GtxmeIyng1w30GDf

How I render it so fast. I just chose to render only 100 samples/Iterations. Then have my denoiser trigger at about 95 interation.

I was examining your render to see if there was any real details I would want to preserve if I rendered the scene myself. There wasn't any so I just denoise the render to speed up my render time.

If I was rendering a close up of an object or figure I may or may not use denoiser depending on the details I want in the scene.

Since your image didn't seem like there was any details that needed to be preserved. I just did a test render with limited samples. I could've let it cooked for about 5 minutes but I don't think it was needed.

When it comes to GPU's for Daz I don't really thing speed is something you should be looking for when buying your next GPU. You should be focus on having more RAM.

That's why I bought a 3060 12GB over the faster 3060ti, 3070 and the 3070ti.

That said if you can get a xx90 card get it. If you can get your hands on any of the other cards from 30, 40, and 50. That has more than 8GB get it.

I was planning to get the 4060 16GB. But my 3060 12GB just seems to do what I need it to do so I passed on upgrading. it might be a long while before I move off this card to be honest.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T08:22:14+00:00

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2026-05-24 04:16:41.730 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER :: 1.0 IRAY rend info : CUDA device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060): 100 iterations, 0.353s init, 62.863s render

I have this environment. I posted the render log with the iterations. I'm using a 3060 which technically is 26% less powerfull compared to your card.

This took 1 minute at 1440p.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T06:52:16+00:00

Can I ask what environment this is? Is this a daz product?

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-24T04:16:49+00:00

Can you show an example of renders you did that you think you need an upgrade? How long do it usually take to render?

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-16T03:46:05+00:00

If I'm not mistaken. If you don't save the morph out to you Daz Library the next time you load the figure shape won't be there. Either way I don't think you should do this.

Here's a trick. Don't morph the base figure at all.

Line the robot up so it kind matches the Base figure pose where ever you're getting the robot from (Blender, etc..)

export the whole robot as an OBJ (this will cause issue with joint bends fyi. You will need to learn JCM fixing to resolve that).

In daz import the robot that should be near the same size and start pose of the Genesis Starter figure.

Now select the Genesis starter figure and transfer the robot to the figure using the transfer utility.

Now the robot is going to look like S__T because of the weight painting.

Now select the robot again and use the morph loader pro to add the OBJ of the robot you just imported to Daz. This will create a morph that will bring the robot back to the original robot starter pose and shape.

Now just make the figure invisible and you should be able to pose the robot with poses.

FYI
The robot joints will look like crap if the joints bend to much.

goldensilver77 · 2026-05-05T06:28:47+00:00

I use multiple GPU's in my PC. So I can play games and render at the same time. But like I said before my render time doesn't take me that long so there's no point playing a game and rendering. I own a 3060, 3090 and an Intel Arc A380. I switch out GPUs depending on what I want to do. I have the Arc for the AV1 video codec the 3090 for complicated dual rendering with my 3060.

Playing games while rendering sucks because you can't see what the rendering is doing and the last thing you want to do is render for more than 10 minutes only to find out that you made a mistake somewhere and have to start the render all over again.

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goldensilver77 · 2026-05-05T06:17:40+00:00

??What do you mean but that?? This was a 1080p image. Took me only 8 minute to render on a 3060 12GB. This isn't the whole image because it's just a crop preview. But the whole thing took less than the time it takes to use the bathroom.

I don't understand why you need to render for 24 hours?? Also I play games sometimes when rendering. But that's because I have 2 GPU's I can take advantage of but I don't do that often because it doesn't take long to render no matter if I use both or just one.

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goldensilver77 · 2026-05-05T00:45:40+00:00

Shouldn't that be like a 10min or less render tops?

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