I haven't used Vue in a long time. I have recently used Carrara to render an image that Poser was taking forever to finish. If you're interested I posted a quick review of my experience in this thread along with a link to the image I rendered in it. I will say this, after 9 hours Poser had rendered about 1/4 of the image; Carrara completed the entire image in about 3 hours and the result was fabulous.

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!