Okay, so first I'm trying with Deecey's settings without changing my actual scene.

It's been two minutes it's stuck in this:

I cancelled it, had it reload textures, same thing. Sooo I deleted the shirt, that uses that texture. It's now stuck on one of the skin textures instead. I don't think that's acceptable.

Message log just says "Starting timer for Render:Background".

Loaded my file again, set it to Default Settings. Now it's rendering, but for some reason it goes back and forth saying it's a higher sample or a lower sample. I'm puzzled.

One thing I noticed: I accidentally clicked "Render" instead of "Render in background" once, and it started actually rendering, and now when I render in background it's rendering.

Hair shaders have not been changed.

I'm gonna try with my original settings now just for kicks - I kinda feel like having it "render" not in background kinda "woke up" the renderer, as hilariously as that sounds.

Edit: nah, went back to super slow samples. But now that I know it's not the hair shader, I'm gonna play with the settings. (I hope the problem is not the Progressive Refinement - I love the progressive refinement)

Edit2: Apparently, it likes to get stuck in loading textures at random, and then I have to have it render not-in-background to get unstuck.

And apparently, it really was the progressive refinement. Dang it. Even when I set it to 10 pixel samples instead of 600, it was stuck like before until I ticked progressive refinement off.

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