To disable Hardware Acceleration in Google Chrome browser, launch the browser and open Settings. Scroll down a bit and click Advanced. Under System, clear “Use hardware acceleration when available”. Alternatively, you can directly visit – chrome://settings/system.
Beside above, how do I disable accelerated 2D canvas in Chrome?
1 Answer. Try going to chrome://flags/ in Chrome and try to set GPU compositing on all pages to disabled and enable “Disable accelerated 2D canvas”.
Keeping this in view, how do I reduce the GPU process in Chrome?
If your hardware supports it, Chrome will offload some tasks to your GPU, which is faster and more efficient than your CPU. This is called Hardware Acceleration. If you want, you can disable it by going to Settings and then scrolling all the way to the bottom to System.
How do I use hardware acceleration in Chrome?
Turn Hardware Acceleration ON in Google Chrome
- Launch Chrome, then select “Menu” > “Settings“.
- Scroll down to the bottom and select the “Advanced” option.
- Scroll to the “System” section and toggle “Use hardware acceleration when available” on or off as desired.
Should hardware acceleration be on or off Chrome?
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.