thank you so much everyone, very helpful at all

ah.. ok.. i quick googled it and found the "official reseller" edit: removed the pirate torrent link (sure.. i didn't want to promote it, just kidding.. anyway..)

@vizfellas said: Try this Make modeling in mm scale. When you add light in VRAY option increase power to 1000 of the IES file. OMG! Thanks so much for this info, it was such a simple fix, my IES lights are showing now. Thanks!