Questions tagged [hardware-acceleration]

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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?

I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube. Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration. The drivers for the graphics card are installed. The statistics in Youtube still show 'software video…
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How do I know when to use hardware acceleration?

I'm not sure I know what hardware acceleration ("...use of computer hardware to perform some function faster") is, but when I play flash games, or 3D FPS games, I'm asked if I want to use hardware acceleration. What criteria should I mentally weigh…
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What are 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration?

In VirtualBox, you can set your VM to use 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration... But what is it? The question is not about their use in that software but in general. What are 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration, how does it work and…
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How to force Chrome to use integrated GPU for decoding?

I want Chrome to utilize iGPU (GT630 on i7-8700k) for video decoding, especially VP9 decoding on YouTube. My discrete GPU is GTX970 and it is not capable of decoding VP9. Currently, VP9 is software decoded on my system, putting load on CPU and…
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Does "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome consume more battery?

I want to know when i enable "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome, it consume more battery? what is the advantage of this feature? is it better to enable or disable this feature?
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How do I enable GPU acceleration on new Hyper-V virtual machines? (Can't use remoteFX)

I've recently set up a Hyper-V virtual machine that runs Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, the host OS is also running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit I want the VM to be able to play games, I tried to play a game but it's painfully slow, and the textures failed to…
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Silverlight hardware-accelerated playback is greyed-out - How do I enable it?

I am trying to play Netflix videos (which only play via Silverlight), but they play choppy because Silverlight's hardware-accelerated playback is disabled. (video playback on WMP11 and VLC is flawless, so I know beyond certainty that my built-in…
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Does Raspberry Pi 4 support AES hardware acceleration?

I have Raspberry Pi 4 B (4GB version), I wonder if it supports AES hardware acceleration (so some special instruction set for CPU for faster encryption). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set it says that architecture…
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Beaglebone Black OpenSSl crypto acceleration

I'm running Debian Wheezy at my Beaglebone Black. Is OpenSSL using the hardware crypto accelerator by default? If no, how can I enable it?
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Best Intel Quick Sync software for h.264 transcoding

I would like to know the best (fast) software for video encoding and transcoding video into h.264 that makes use of Intel Quick Sync. I looked at Media Espresso by Cyberlink but it does not have many features. I can't even put a logo on the video…
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All chrome popups display with transparency bug in chrome in a VM

I spend a lot of time using virtual machines, and a lot of that time using Chrome. All of the browser dialogs, such as those for extensions, but also things such as chrome prompting certain things etc render with a transparency bug. The bug can be…
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Intel HD4000 - Code 12 - This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use

System: CPU Core i7 3770K Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V with latest BIOS RAM 32GB DDR3-1333 RAID Adaptec 6405E in a PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot HDDs 2 x Seagate 4TB 7200RPM GPUs Intel HD4000 (on-CPU) and Radeon HD7970 Software: OS Windows 8 Pro x64 Intel GPU…
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Disable Java Hardware Acceleration in windows?

I have some issues with my graphics card and I want to disable Hardware Acceleration for java apps. Everything that uses HA is displayed blurry. I've seen some tutorials on how to set this parameter -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false The problem is that the…
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How do I check if my system supports hardware acceleration? Is it on the CPU or motherboard?

What is hardware acceleration? How can I check if my system supports it? Is it a property of the CPU or Motherboard?
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How do I disable hardware acceleration in Windows 7?

I am using Cubase 5 and currently having problems with Asio Time overload which is not enabling me to produce my work properly. I have tried all the relevant checks with my graphics card (such as unticking all application settings and setting them…
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