Hi Chris,
Yep, the Max Samples were left at the default of 1600. When I dropped them down to 100, my 8 min render fell to 4 seconds! Yay! Thank you!

Any guidelines/suggestions for determining the best max samples?

Thanks Again-
Dutch

Hi,
I'm evaluating the plug-in (running the demo) for Maya running on Windows 64 bit with a K4000 card and the render is PAINFULLY slow. 8 minutes for a plane, a cone and a cube with Octane materials, a light, sun and camera. Something must be horribly wrong!

Any advice?

Cheers!
-Dutch