Because of issues i diid a full new .108 install incase something had become corrupted with the updates so I have a new question ... Has Max Samples had some recent work done to it ?
First sign of the image being rendered too 1m 43s before it appeared on screen, then the screen appeared to be stepping at approximately 1 minute intervals where as i normally see a refresh about every 10 seconds or so. Total render time on this simple scene was over 4 hours but at least the noise is more acceptable on this render. Please forgive the scaling of the textures, i just dropped them in just as a testing scene.
Martin