Will a large file kill render view?

[Brenda]

I feel that the rendered viewport should get a little attention.

V6 Viewport Bugs

Rendered mode (and shaded variants that show materials) doesn’t understand that glass is transparent and things need to be rendered behind it. Cycles, doesn’t always honor self-illumination. Cycles doesn’t honor throttling settings, so how I have to work, is set the display mode to Shaded, or whatever, move my view, and switch back, and repeat. This takes 14 seconds on GTX1080 and a 3.4ghz quad. The fastest-single performance out there is only 30% faster than what I have. I have 16gb of memor…