Scenes and figures "reading asset" takes a very long time

[Scenes and figures "reading asset" takes a very long time.] Let's say 2 Genesis figures with Iray skins and 1 Genesis 2 with Iray skin, even without anything else takes like 20 minutes. Seems like something is slowing it down but I can't fgure out what it is. At this point it takes almost as long to load a scene as it does to render. Is there a fix for this?
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Solved your problem? I still have the same mess. thx in advance.