Hardware acceleration is good because it boosts performance for certain tasks. But sometimes, it may cause issues such as freezing or crashing in Google Chrome or other browsers, forcing you to disable the feature to fix the issue.
Moreover, what does hardware acceleration do in Chrome?
Buried in Chrome’s settings is a way to enable hardware acceleration, which may or may not improve Chrome’s performance on your computer. Hardware acceleration allows the CPU to offload some page-rendering and loading tasks to your system’s GPU.
In this regard, what happens when hardware acceleration is off? Turning off the Hardware Acceleration completely will run the application in software rendering mode’. Before you proceed, you should know that not all computer systems support this. Most new computers using NVIDIA or AMD/ATI graphics cards will not have the ability to change the amount of acceleration.