Psst. I managed to smuggle this screenshot off my computer, and I'm bored so I'm sharing it with you.

In our UE4 project the level loading hangs at 96%. Always. And then it needs 5 more minutes. 5 very long minutes

@sirjofri This was 45. Forty-fucking-five minutes. With cuda and -15 nice value.

This is the reason professional content creators use high end machines with maxed out GPUs and Threadripper CPUs and stuff.

This is nothing, rendering my animations took more than a week total of render time (after hyperoptimizing and using eevee when I could), that was legitimately painful, lol.

I need a better system.

That's the reason why professional studios often hire external render farms. Afaik autodesk's arnold renderer is unable to gpu compute, so it's all cpu processing. You don't want this, even on a high end machine...