DR Nodes take a long time to begin working

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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I currently run into an issue with a scene and I don’t know why. I didn’t add any geometry or anything but suddenly when using DR the log says “Scene loaded; starting render” almost instantly but take like 5 to 10 minutes until I see additional buckets. I have really no clue why this could be happening since it was working fine before with the same scene. Already tried restarting everything checking the network connections etc. but I don’t see anything wrong. I also tried merging everything into a new scene but same result.

Oh and I am using vray 3.30.04

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Okay I narrowed down the problem to a few planes ( 198 ) with an emissive material on them. If I hide them or disable direct illumination inside the vraylightmtl the nodes join the render way way faster.

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Can you send us that scene for investigation?
Does the slowdown occur only on DR-machines or the local machine behaves the same way?

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This might be a bug, another user reported the same thing on the following thread:
http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?86900-Vray-light-material-and-DR-bug&p=684893

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Ah sorry Svetlozar I didn’t see you answering. I don’t have access to the scene at least not for another few days.