I guess most people here are just traditional artists. Afterall the render business has begun some 10 years ago or so.

I've been able to produce decent images after a quarter of year because for the regular family man it would mean 2+ years. Some people like me just have too much time on their hands.

I came to Vue if i remember correctly, because when I got Crysis I read that it was the first game to use real-time ambient occlusion SSAO. This got me interested in fullscale rendering and so I must've ended up with Vue.

Let me tell you though, the 8 months I played around with Vue in 32bit was NOT much fun, even though I had 4 gigabyte in the machine. Do yourself the favour, you deserve Win XP64!