Quote - Shwooo! its cleaning up nicely.. the spots turned out to be lights in the HDR (WHOH)

How much longer should I let it go?

Well, as Bob said you should switch to 1.0, unless you are using Reality 1.x Lux 0.8 is not supported by Reality 2 so you might encounter a series of problems, especially with metals. If you still use Reality then stay with 0.8 but I would suggest an upgrade as soon as you can.

Regarding the amount of rendering, I would let it go until it reaches at leas 2500 samples.

Cheers.

Paolo

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