Cancelling a Cycles render - COMPLETELY

Support Basics & Interface
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Hey there,
since denoising was introduced, I’ve regularly been bogged down by the endless amount of time it takes to cancel a render.
Since my system is old, I often can’t preview, so I have to render and re-render. Often enough, the first couple of tiles tell the whole story.
Ist there a way to cancel a render WITHOUT having to wait literally hours for a denoising process (sometimes for 1 tile) that needn’t even be done?

Thanks!

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You could set a View → View Regions… → Render Region or decrease the sampling rate… or even don’t denoise for render tests…

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OK, so the denoising part can’t be cancelled at all? But leaving denoise for test out is a great start! Thanks!

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Under Render Properties → Denoising you can disable denoise… it’s even not enabled as default AFAIK