Ok, so I thought I would give Daz studio 4.8 a try since poser has been taking so long to render anything. I do only have poser 8...so I hope to find better features anyway.

But I am finding that it has been taking over 20 minutes to render the first tutorial image "Bare foot dancer." I say over 20 because I just shut it down at 20 since poser could do it much faster. I have downloaded luxrender, but do not yet have a plugin to use it. As it costs money for the plugins I am going to need another way to do it right now.

Is there something I am missing as to how to get faster render times without buying a new computer? 

Here are my computer stats:

Windows 7 Home Premium

 AMD V120 Processor 2.20 GHz

 2.74 GB Usable RAM

 64 bit

ATI Mobility  Radeon HD 4250