Wow I didn't think the version difference would make that significant a difference or I'd of tried that first. about 1/10th of the lag and it renders perfect now, hopefully it will continue to work as the levels get larger. Thanks for the help everyone.

Yeah I figured and already played around with the quality/thread settings, also I'm using a i7, though I forget if I installed the 64 bit or 32 version and i'm still using version .48. I'm pretty sure its just me trying to push the filters way beyond what inkscape can handle/they are designed for th...

I've been using filters for a specific effect and its been working great, however when I try with very large objects the filters are gibberish. It also runs extremely slow but that's normal with a lot of filters/large filtered objects. I assume this issue is simply because I am trying to apply filte...