As soon as you start to use Vue in a closed enviroment, like you did, it is very fast.

I did these 2 images one is a while back and one is more recently.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2540091&user_id=23722&np&np

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2505689&user_id=23722&np&np

Both are completely set up in Poser and rendered in Vue. They rendered in about 5 minutes in Vue on my machine (i7 3770, 4 cores/ 8 threads), setting Vue on superior. The second one, with the knights I did render in Poser as well and I stopped Poser after 4 hours, but the image wasn't done by then at all.

The results surprised me as well. I now working on a new image, completely setup in Poser. There are 9 fully dressed figures in it. 2 of them are knights with a full armor. 3 ladies with long dresses, 3 others in tunics and one figure with a different set of clothes. Each figure has it's own body texture and 6 of them have hair, each one of them a differently. 6 different sets of clothes, but when I used double, I made sure each figure has it's own unique texture set. They're in a tavern with roughly 35 unique props, but in total over 50.

I tried to render it in Poser, using 9 lights (the scene is candle lit), render settings not too high. Even waiting on Poser to gather all the textures took ages and rendering was going to take hours, so I stopped the rendering. Opened the scene in Vue, added the reflections that were lost in importing. Added the 9 lights again, same type as in Poser and set the rendering on the same size. First tried Final for rendering..... 3 minutes later the render was done. Then tried superior... 15 minutes later the render was done. That is still faster then Poser managed to gathered the textures for the scene. Finally I opted for indirect lighting, set the atmosphere nice and high and switched on some other time consuming features and left the render setting at superior. The image itself doesn't look much better at all, but sure took longer to render. Just under 3 hours, but these are insane settings and still it's faster then Poser, since Poser didn't even manage to produce a render on much lower settings in 3 hours.

Enough of this.... what surprises me here though is how slow Octane and Reality are. I remember a while back everyone was so happy with Octane being so fast. When people started showing off their images though, they were of a lesser quality. Once people wanted quality, it wasn't so fast anymore. At that time I wanted to jump on the Octane bandwagon as well, but chose Vue instead. I'm glad I did..... by now I know that rendering my Poser scenes in Vue is insanly fast, yet of hight quality. As soon as you start to create outdoor scenes, Vue won't be as fast. That is mostly due to adding too much stuff though..... a little plant here, a few more flowers there and a couple more trees and there goes the rendering time. Still most of my Vue scenes, some being complex render quite fast. 2-4 hours with a size of 3500x2500. That's not too bad at all. Rendering for a forum of my screen (1366x768) takes 15-30 minutes for a complex scene. In the end I'm happy to have choses Vue! I not only have a cool rendering engine, I also have lot of cool stuff to play with as well.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk