Trying to open the file provided by Paul crashed my GerbView too:
@ZASto My laptop is no slouch: i7@1.8GHz 16GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce MX250, but doesn’t compare to your, I may be running out of graphic memory or even normal RAM.
EDIT:
Reading ZASto’s post make me thing about the graphics memory of my video card, I change render mode to “legacy” (F9) and gave it another try, it worked.
p.s. @paulvdh Although the whole board loads correctly in “legacy” mode, your test file still crashes GerbView, maybe unvalid file?