Windows 10, dual Xeon machine, R19, latest daily; the Preparing Scene Data does take forever (well, I gave up after waiting 10 minutes, so it may not actually take forever ;) ). For me, C4D didn't become inactive, even after clicking on the UI - it remained taking 100% CPU in the Task Manager. I did have to kill it in the Task Manager though. Turning off Detailing didn't seem to make any difference (I didn't wait as long that time around though, just a minute or so).