@AmethystsPendant: thank you for the info! I didn't know another program could open a queue render while it's rendering. Still sounds like more trouble than it's worth though!

@hornet3d: yes seems with your information and others posted here that I was just wrong about how branched path tracing works!

- - - - - - 

Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.