Viewport

Blender Preferences Viewport section.

Display

Object Info

Display the active Object name and frame number at the top left of the 3D Viewport.

View Name

Display the name and type of the current view in the top left corner of the 3D Viewport. For example: “User Perspective” or “Top Orthographic”.

Playback FPS

Show the frames per second screen refresh rate while an animation is played back. It appears in the top left of the 3D Viewport, displaying red if the frame rate set cannot be reached.

Gizmo Size

Diameter of the gizmo.

HDRI Preview Size

Diameter of the HDRI sphere overlay.

3D Viewport Axis

Interactive Navigation

Display the axis as an interactive gizmo.

Click

Sets the viewport to display along this axis.

Drag

Orbit the view.

Simple Axis

Display simple, less intrusive axis in the viewport.

Size

Size of the simple axis.

Brightness

How vivid the colors of the simple axis are.

Off

Disables the viewport axis.

Quality

Viewport Anti-Aliasing

Control the anti-aliasing for higher quality rendering.

Overlay Smooth Wires

Display overlays with smooth wire, without this wires will be rendered aliased.

To increase the visibility you can disable this and Edit-Mode Smooth Wires, since edges do not blend into other shaded regions.

Edit-Mode Smooth Wires

Display smooth wire in Edit Mode, without this wires will be rendered aliased.

Textures

Limit Size

Limit the maximum resolution for pictures used in textured display to save memory. The limit options are specified in a square of pixels (e.g: the option 256 means a texture of 256×256 pixels). This is useful for game engineers, whereas the texture limit matches paging blocks of the textures in the target graphic card memory.

Anisotropic Filtering

Sets the level of anisotropic filtering. This improves the quality of textures that are rendered at the cost of performance.

Clip Alpha

Clip alpha below this threshold in the 3D Viewport. Note that, the default is set to a low value to prevent issues on some GPU’s.

Image Display Method

Method to render images; the following options are supported:

Automatic

Automatically use GLSL which runs on the GPU for performance but falls back to the CPU for large images which might be slow when loaded with the GPU.

2D Texture

Uses CPU for display transform and render images as a 2D texture.

GLSL

Fastest method using GLSL for display transform and render images as a 2D texture.

Selection

OpenGL Depth Picking

This option uses an alternative method of picking which uses depth information to select the front-most elements. It is only used for selecting with the cursor (not box select, lasso, circle select, etc.).

Performance varies depending on your OpenGL hardware and drivers.