can you tell me how to do 1 in just a teensy bit more datil?1) Turn specular strength of the hair to zero in surfaces.
2) Idk if you're rendering with 3delight, but if you are, switch to iray, its just better, and I think its a bit faster. Also, in render settings, if you go to progressive rendering, turn off rendering quality enable. This turns your render off from a reality target (I believe its automatically set to 95%), to a set number of iterations, which you can adjust. I do this because I have a crappy computer, but if you have a graphics card, I would suggest looking up a video on how to do it instead so you don't reduce render quality.
its IS iray. I went to the advanced tab and killed the cpu on both options and it still uses it. I googled but all i found is people who have daz stuck on cpu mode and dont have a fix