Hello Folks,
I am new to Vue and was playing around with rending a few drawings. I managed to modify one of my exisiting works and was rending it at 800x600, 72 DPI on a standard PC render setting with the view resoluation as final. It is taking an enorums amount of time the comptuer has been processsing no stop for 2 days and its only rendered 6.2% by the way Im using the stand alone renderer option checked.

I have vue exterme and the computer has around 3GB of RAM and a nvidia 6700 Gt card in there nonetheless the render is taking with an AMD dual core processor.

So is it typical that the render is taking so long. Are there optimal render settings that I can use to strike the right balance between quality and processing speed.

Thanks

Which render option did you use ? If you arent careful, it's possible to get stupidly long render times.  I'll see if I can dig out a link to a PDF written by Peggy here which gives you some hints about controlling render times.

[Edit]
Found it.  it's www.sharecg.com/v/23774/tutorial/Vue-6-Infinite-Render-Settings here

can't help you, too many variables and too little info from your side.

many good vue-users claim that Vue in itself is a slower render engine overall, but through the atmospheric layers and sliders there is much more processing involved.

I usually go at very low AA settings at about 1-3 for testrenders, but to be very honest, you'll have to figure it out all on your own, check out the atmospheric settings and the rendertab, that's about all,

sure sometimes you can save up to 50% rendertime (or more if it was setup even worse) without even noticing a difference in your picture**
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Render times really depend on the type of scene you are creating and how much quality you would like in the finished picture. Reflective surfaces can really slow things down. As well as the type of atmosphere you choose. It really depends on you and what you are trying to make happen. Rendering in any 3D software can take a long time if you have it packed with difficult atmospheres and objects. Contact the support staff at e-on for guidance. And be very patient. ;o)

Learning the render settings is a very important part of learning Vue. The preset settings must have been decided on by considering many possible scenes. So they must give "average" renders.
 
Do you want your scene to look "average"? No? Then learn the "User" settings, so you can do a custom render for every scene.

To my mind, every scene you are serious about deserves a custom final render, since the render settings are so critical to a best possible result.