By the time a game engine can do in real time what software like Vue does when it does a render with all the bells and whistles turned on software like Vue will be doing stuff that can't be done in real time.  Over time the underlying models and the simulations get better.  Cheats, work arounds, specialist hardware and every other trick in the book get brought into play.  Also over time the power available to do all the maths increases.  However the simulations we are using today are still just that and one of the reasons we see some of the issues users have when they push parameters to the extreme is that at the edges of the simulation they don't work like the real world does...

In the end the only 100% accurate, real time simulation of a real world scene is to build the scene at 1 to 1 scale in the real world and look at it.

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