"The rendering process actually took 40 minutes." Considering you checked every option in the settings panel, and probably had the renderer trying to calculate for things it didn't have to in the scene, that's not a very long rendertime for Firefly. :-) Off topic: Stewer, I didn't try Pixie yet. Probably will do it this weekend, and might need some assistance. I'll contact you IM if I do. ;-)

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.