I'm not in front if the computer now, but have you tried if unified sampling makes a big difference, in theory it should. There's also an caching option for AO in the render settings, you've to fiddle with the values. Not using mr very often these days.
-- Christian Keller Visual effects|direction m +49 179 69 36 248 [email protected] Vimeo.com/channels/96149 > Am 25.02.2015 um 11:19 schrieb Chris Marshall <[email protected]>: > > Hi All, > When combing these two, render times go through the roof. Any tricks for > speeding this up? > > Thanks > > Chris >

