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I am a longtime Bryce user and a medium time Vue user. I currently use Bryce 7 and Vue 9. My question is why Bryce always renders in lightening speed compared to vue. Bryce is 32 bit and vue is 64 bit. I have an X6 1090T processor. I can set up a scene as similar as possible in each application with alpha plane objects and a bare minimum terrain, water and maybe a couple of 3d plants. I have been rendering the vue version for an hour or so with an estimated time remaining of 36 hours. The Bryce scene rendered in about an hour total. I know the atmospheres can be render intensive in vue, but the time seems always to be a lot longer in vue no matter which I pick. I mention this because I am trying to move to vue, since bryce isn't really being supported anymore and it is buggy. I find myself going back to bryce over and over due to the long renders.