D|S / Bryce is a good combo. Low cost, good value for money
So is Poser/Vue. The Poser / Vue combo is significantly more expensive, especially when you go for the higher end of the Vue line. But it also delivers a LOT of value.

What to use? Depends on what you're comfortable with and what kinds of scenes you do. For the kind of scenes I do myself - multicharacter scenes in detailed environments - D|S / Bryce won't do, I need the extra features of Vue Infinite. For harshly lit SciFi scenes D|S / Bryce is very good.

Poser - Bryce integration is not good at all, the best you can do is import a Poser scene into D|S and go to Bryce from there. But that means that many Poser features will not come across as intented (shaders), not at all (dynamic hair, dynamic cloth) or only with a non-free plugin (magnets, dynamic cloth in the near future). Of course, it's possible to export a Poser scene as .OBJ and then import the .OBJ into Bryce, which gives you a complete material nightmare.

D|S - Vue integration is as bad as Poser - Bryce integration. Worse, since a D|S scene cannot be imported into Poser in order to bring it to Vue. 

Oh, and about the script that disables texture filtering - there's one in my freestuff area (see link in my sig).

D|S - Vue integration

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