I tried pretty much every combination of lighting, smoothing, work modes etc I could think of and I couldn't really find any combination that works well. Although, weirdly enough, turning on "quick smoothed view" does sometimes seem to improve performance slightly despite increasing the amount of polygons. Turning "work mode" off improves performance slightly when smoothing is also off.
I don't think I've tried 2.1.7. Performance now is definitely worse than what it was in 2.1.5. I can give 2.1.7. a try so I can get a comparison.
I'm on windows 10 pro.
Ok I just took 2.1.7 for a spin and models in the 20k-40k range run smooth as butter. Even very large models run pretty well and about the same in every mode.
I did notice though that after loading a large model, and turning work mode off, the viewport was very laggy and unresponsive. Once I toggled smoothing on and off performance improved in every mode.
I don't think I've tried 2.1.7. Performance now is definitely worse than what it was in 2.1.5. I can give 2.1.7. a try so I can get a comparison.
I'm on windows 10 pro.
Ok I just took 2.1.7 for a spin and models in the 20k-40k range run smooth as butter. Even very large models run pretty well and about the same in every mode.
I did notice though that after loading a large model, and turning work mode off, the viewport was very laggy and unresponsive. Once I toggled smoothing on and off performance improved in every mode.