I've been rendering complex pictures at very high setting (User Settings) with Vue 7, and though they usually take a while, a day or two, sometimes more, I feel that now that I've upgraded to 7.4 the render times are skyrocketing.  Also, there seems to be a long pause after it initilizes and  the prepass actually begins, especially if I'm rendering at the higher settings.  And when I say pause I mean minutes.  Sometimes a half hour or more, but eventually the prepass begins.  I've only tried rendering two pictures since I upgraded so I cant say with complete certainty that there isn't something specifically wrong with the the pictures themselves that is causing the super-long render times, but I cant figure out why this is happening.  I was just wondering if anyone else was noticing this.

Sorry if this is confusing.....