Render Times Too Damn Long when Adding Rectangular Lights

[AcesHigh]

I am creating a large building (not work, fortunatelly) and I am getting ultra long render times when I try to add rectangular lights all over the 130 floors of the building. Just like in real life highrises, you should be able to see the fluorescent lights from outside, through the glass, even in the day.

But adding those lights increased render time from 30 minutes to over 90 hours (Quad Core Q9300 processor, 4gig RAM).

I wonder if there is any tip on how to decrease these render times... are other lights faster to render?

[thomthom]

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