http://www.oxyshare.com/get/111964449944f73612800e7/early\_beta.rar.html
It’s little more than a proof of concept so far, but i hope you’ll find it useful.
Unpack, run the installer.ms.
Follow the instructions.
I bound it to ctrl+shift+i to activate it, and alt+shift+i to deactivate it.
When active,upon render start it will pop up a small window with the current render settings (atm just AA type and main settings,filter if any, and GI primary and secondary method - if active- and multipliers, but is bound to grow a fair bit soon).
Built with troubleshooting in mind, for those scenes which render for way too much more than they should 
At the moment it ASSUMES vray is the current renderer, so it may do any number of silly things if it is not.
Have fun, and do suggest new things to throw at it so to be implemented (i have in mind something like min and max subdivs for glossy effects in scene, so to check if anything has silly subdivs set, and so on).
Lele
I’ve been looking for something like this. I assume it only works with newer versions of max? Do you have to register to download 
I know of nothing that should impede this script from working with any earlier version of max, atm, so by all means give it a try.
RC2 IS needed, though.
The link on the silly oxyshare is at the bottom right, masked as an advertisement.No need to register.
Thanks to someone’s greater grace, though, soon all these will be found in one place for easy access.
Lele
nice one lele, Im glad it worked out!
Updated to V1.
Diplays also Min/Max and Scene Average shadows subdivs, as well as the same for reflective and refractive glossies.
Added also a few parameters for the GI methods.
Try it out and let me know if it does the job or i should add more things to it.
http://www.scriptspot.com/lele/VRay\_RenderTime\_Infos\_V1.zip
Linked in the OT post as well forthe sake of some order.
Lele
Edit: forgot to add two files to the package. For those who downloaded this and had an error running the installer, please redownload it.