Frequently Asked Question
How to disable Hardware Acceleration?
Last Updated 3 years ago
Chrome Settings:
- 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.
Firefox Settings:
- Click the menu button and select Settings.
- Select the General panel.
- Under Performance, uncheck Use recommended performance settings.
Additional settings will be displayed. - Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available.
Edge Settings:
- Open Microsoft Edge and select the menu button.
- Open the Settings area.
- Click System tab on the left side.
- Locate Use hardware acceleration when available on the right side.
- Activate or deactivate hardware acceleration.
Teams Settings:
- In Teams, click your icon / photo.
- Choose Settings.
- In Settings, in tab general, enable “Disable GPU hardware acceleration“.
- While you're here, also disable “Register teams as the chat app for Office…“.
- Restart Teams. Please note that Teams runs in the background.