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There is something very strange happening in my scene. At first, it was perfectly fine. The Live Viewer had no problem loading materials, and it was quick.

Now, out of the blue, materials take half an hour to load, just to get something in the viewport. I tried reducing my project file down to the very basics, with a simple cube, and a simple 1k by 1k texture. Even that one texture is taking too long to load.

Any ideas why this would be happening suddenly?

Hi,
do you have network paths, or google drive/dropbox paths in your scene/preferences?
Are you using c4d shaders?
ciao Beppe

I am using our server's network path. The strange thing is I noticed that when I loaded the file onto my home machine, the textures and everything loaded up perfectly fine. Do you think it could be a network issue?

So, as odd as this sounds, what fixes the problem is just hitting the render button, walking away for half hour, coming back to your scene after it FINALLY loads and hitting the SAVE button. Your scene will work fine after that.