I will continue the story about Miho attacking the second hidden lab of the evil corporation over the weekend. I had a major disaster on my hands with some software upgrades I did on my main render PC last week after posting my last render. I generally have a simple rule when installing software - take backup and never install more than one software at a time. But I broke my rule and paid for it heavily. It started with a security product with Ransomware protection I had installed and then immediately had upgraded my nvidia graphics driver. I launched Daz Studio and got a blue screen within seconds. PC rebooted, then I logged in and started DAZ Studio again and again got a blue screen. The PC rebooted again. Now I thought either the Ransomware protection was interfering with the DAZ Studio (I had added all the DAZ Studio content folders and all Miho related folder under the Ransomware protection) or I had somehow corrupted my SSD drive or the DAZ Content DB. So I did a reset of the content DB and tired to re-import and process all the meta data. That again resulted in a Blue Screen. Now I was worried. If I lost the disk, I would loose all my work on Miho. That is something I could not bear to think about. So after the reboot, I ran a check on the disk, it showed no errors. This time I did not start DAZ Studio and waited to see if anything happened or if I get the blue screen again. And soon enough, both my monitors kept going dark every minute or so but no blue screens. This made me curious and I looked at the Event Viewer and immediately knew the problem. It was the graphics driver. It had a lot of 'hung' and 'recovered' messages regarding it in the event viewer. Every time it hung, it hung the system and the screens went dark. But if DAZ Studio was running Octane was accessing the graphics card and when the driver hung, Octane could not access the card and that resulted it a critical timeout which caused the blue screen. So I uninstalled the latest driver and installed the older version I was using previously. Now the PC was once more stable. But my content library was more of less gone. I tried to load a scene with Miho, I got everything are 'missing or not found'. I had no choice but to reinstall the huge number of items I had in my content library. That took days. And after that was done, I loaded Miho and got all sorts of distortion on her eye lashes. Something was wrong. Then I saw the DAZ Studio 4.9.4 in the DIM, installed it, same problem. Uninstalled that version and again installed it, same problem. So again reset the content DB and I also removed the DAZ DSON cache folder and again had to wait for days for all the items to download and install. I really do not understand why DAZ cannot use the already downloaded package to install the item. Anyway, finally this time everything installed properly and I was able to render Miho properly. That was yesterday night. Hence my absence from Renderosity for the past week and a half. Btw. Do not install version 382.53 of the Nvidia driver if you have the Titan X (Maxwell ). I can't say whether it will be stable on other cards.

For today I am just posting a render of Miho I was doing in parallel to the story renders. I actually have been working on Miho's teeth, eye textures and also eyebrows. They all had problems and I had been resolving them in parallel to my renders for the latest story line. I will do a close up of her eyes soon.