MDO2010 posted at 4:40PM Sat, 30 January 2016 - #4252131

dr_bernie posted at 7:56AM Sat, 30 January 2016 - #4251877

@tsarist:

Thanks for your concerns tsarist, but there will be no update catastrophes for me! The last good known version of Carrara is 8.1.1.12, and that is that!

Can I ask what that is based on? I am using the most recent version (8.5.19 something something) and haven't run into any issues in it that were not present in earlier versions, plus I can now actually use smart content (I rarely do except for Genesis stuff, but I can) and it also seems to start a bit quicker. I agree with most people that it wasn't any sort of earth-shaking improvement over earlier versions, but I keep running into people who stopped at 8.1 and I don't understand why. Even if it was just for the few little bug fixes, why would you not use the most recent one?

I can't speak for everyone on this (I'm still running C7Pro), but when 8.5 was released a lot of people were having problems with it. Some things that were working became broken. Some functionality between Carrara & DS stopped working. This of course is not a universal phenomenon. Expert users seem to have had less problems, as did those who had better rigs.

I personally just stayed clear because what I had was working fine and I have had some bad experiences with Daz upgrades.

If C8.5 is working well for you, that is perfect and the way it should be.