I have the latest Daz Studio available (0.9.28.4) and for some reason, I can no longer difectly select anything within the viewport. I've updated my graphics card drivers (which did indeed need updating), however, it still will not let me select anything (rotate, scale, move, material or other). Even if I select an item in the selection panel, I cannot rotate it using the coordinates controls onscreen. I can do a spot render, but no marquee will show up. I am running a Win98 machine (I also have a different version on an XP machine) with a SiS video card, which is OpenGL compliant (at least, according to SiS it is). I've submitted a bug report, but I was wondering if anyone else had this issue? HELP!

What is the make and model of the graphic card? Some people with modestly powerful cards that worked on previous build have commented that with this build they had upgrade the drivers before the Studio would right again. Perhaps your card was just more borderline then theirs.

It would appear that is the case, although after upgrading all my graphics card drivers, I can now at least get the marquee to show up when I do a spot render. Argh! The poser demo worked beautifully. Why can't Daz. Waaaaah! Oh well. Guess I'll go hunting down an nVidia card.

artroland, I've found that if I try to "directly select anything within the viewport" when the Spot Render tool is selected/depressed D/S won't let me select. If I select the Translate tool (for example),which de-selects the Spot Render tool I can then select anything in the viewport. It seems to do with having the Spot Render tool selected when trying to select an item in the viewport. Atleast in my case. Hope this helps :-)

Thanks for the idea, but this apparently has to do with the level of OpenGL support in my SiSM650 card. Which leaves me looking into a Radeon or an nVidia for this.

Nvidia cards have better OpenGL support then ATI. Its possible the Windows 98 OS may be holding you back too.

Yes and yes. Although I do have an old ATI in my server (which only needs basic graphics), otherwise I never look at them. NVidia all the way - better OGL and multimonitor support as well as stereoscopic display support (which ATI will probably never implement). Think about this. Win98. 98. What year is it? 2005 going on 2006. You are using an OS that is over SEVEN years old (and has been superceded several times, if you include Win2000). So much is not supported well in anything before Win2000 - including direct NTFS support (the only Windows filesystem worth using), proper memory management, multicore processing, and, obviously, driver support. Do yourself a favor and upgrade that 98 OS to XP (Home at least). :)

I run XP Home,have an ATI Radeon and have had zero problems with any of the D/S problems I've seen others have with their graphic card. Nvidia or ATI. Go figure :- )

Well, and the minumum recommended requirements are a graphics card supporting at least OpenGL 1.1. Mine supports 1.2.1. I would like it if they would simply tell you that if you do NOT have something capable of supporting 1.5 that you will have serious workflow issues. As for WinXP, well, I have it on my laptop with a Radeon card, and it works great there. My Win98 machine also handles some recording and songwriting duties, and WinXP sucks at that. Hence the usage of Win98 for this machine. Oh well, I guess you cannot win them all.