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How to Set Hardware Acceleration for Windows 11 On or Off
How to turn on or off Hardware Acceleration Windows 11 to make your PC run faster? This post will guide you to easily do hardware accelerated GPU scheduling.
By Irene / Updated on October 16, 2023
When it comes to hardware acceleration on Windows 11, some users might know about it, while others might not. What exactly is it, what can it do for you, and should you enable it or not? If you're curious about these questions, keep reading – we've got the answers right here.
What is Hardware Acceleration Windows 11?
Hardware Acceleration also refers to Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. It is a technology that utilizes specialized hardware components like the GPU and CPU to offload specific tasks from the software or central processing unit. By leveraging dedicated hardware resources, it enhances the speed and efficiency of these operations, bringing a smoother and faster user experience.
This technology also ensures seamless rendering of graphics. Normally, processors execute instructions sequentially, one after the other. However, by employing certain techniques, you can modify the process to execute them faster. The concept behind hardware acceleration is to transfer the responsibility of graphics and text rendering from the Central Processing Unit to the Graphics Processing Unit, thus leading to improved performance.
Should you turn on Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling for Windows 11?
Whether you should enable Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling depends on your specific requirements and system configuration. Generally, turning on Windows 11 Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling allows you to gain these advantages:
2. Enhanced system responsiveness: With Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling, the GPU can handle scheduling tasks more efficiently, resulting in improved Windows 11 performance.
3. Optimized GPU utilization: Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling ensures that the graphics card is being fully utilized, which can result in better overall system performance.
However, according to the users’ feedback, this function also has several cons that need pay attention to:
2. Limited performance impact in Non-Graphics intensive scenarios: If you primarily use your system for basic tasks like web browsing, document editing, or email, enabling it may not provide noticeable performance improvements.
3. Dependency on GPU and Windows 11 compatibility: Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling requires a compatible GPU that supports WDDM 3.0 or later. Additionally, since Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling is a feature introduced in Windows 11, it is only available for systems running this specific operating system version.
So, if you regularly use applications that heavily rely on graphics processing, this function will help you a lot, while for basic tasks, enabling the feature may bring a negative impact all the more.
How to enable and disable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling
Now, if you decide to enable or disable the Windows 11 Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, here is step-by-step guidance.
Turn on the Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling Windows 11
Step 1. Open Settings window, and click “System” > “Display”.
Step 2. Choose the “Graphics” icon and click “Change default graphics settings”.
Step 3. In the new interface, toggle the “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” on.
Turn off Hardware Acceleration Windows 11
▌Case 1. Disable Hardware Acceleration Windows 11 in normal case
The Step 1 and Step 2 are the same as the above. You just need to toggle the button of “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” off, and you can disable Hardware Acceleration Windows 11.
Then, please restart your computer to bring the change into effect.
▌Case 2.Disable Windows 11 Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling when it in Error
However, if the compatibility issues happen, the system may notice with errors like SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. In these situations, you may also need to disable Hardware Acceleration Windows 11.
Step 1: Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following location by copying and pasting it into the address bar: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics
Step 2: On the right-hand side of the window, locate the entry called DisableHWAcceleration and double-click on it. This will open the entry for editing. Enter the value "1" in the Value Data field and click OK to save the changes.
By completing these steps, you will successfully turn off Hardware Acceleration Windows 11.
Further reading: Easily speed up your PC without Hardware Acceleration Windows 11 on
For users who just run basic tasks like web browsing, document editing, or other casual activities, there is less need to turn on Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling Windows 11. If you want to speed up your PC and enjoy better and smoother performance, actually, you have a better choice.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a free disk and partition manager for Windows OS, supporting Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP and continues to receive updates. It boasts many practical features for users to enhance performance or monitor computer health.
For instance, the feature "Disk Speed Test” allows you to assess the read and write speeds of your hard drives, helping you identify any potential bottlenecks or areas for improvement. With easy-to-interpret results, you can adopt targeted measures to improve your PC.
If the test results show that your disk is in good shape, you can go ahead and use its other functions to enhance your system's speed. To make your device run faster, cleaning junk files is a good way. On the main interface, you can choose "PC Cleaner" to remove temporary files, system cache, and other unnecessary files that accumulate over time. By the way, this function can also help you remove potential viruses and malware.
Step 1. Download and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, all the disks and partitions on the PC will be displayed on the interface, click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner".
Step 2. You can see "Approximate 1.26 GB disk space you can free up", click "Start Scan" to scan all junk files in your PC.
Step 3. Wait for some minutes until the progress bar is full.
Step 4. Some junk files will be selected by fault (They are junk files recognized by the software as not harming the computer even if deleted.), select the target junk files and click "Clean All".
Step 5. When the cleaning task is finished, click "Back" to turn to the main interface.
If you're looking to free up space and further enhance your system's responsiveness, it is recommended to upgrade to AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional version. This version can share more advanced and powerful functions like below:
• You can try the "Delete Large Files" function to dig out all of the large files on PC and delete them according to your needs.
• You can unlock "App Mover" to move installed programs to another drive.
• You can also allocate free space from one drive to another to extend it.
After testing, you can directly use “PC cleaner” to clean up and remove potential risks like virus or malware, thus protecting your data safe and improving computer performance.
Conclusion
It is quite simple to enable and disable Hardware Acceleration Windows 11. Given the cons, for basic task users to speed up their computer, try the multifunctional tool like AOMEI Partition Assistant can be an ideal choice.
It can also migrate OS to SSD for computer performance, allocating free space to extend C drive space and move installed apps to another drive. Windows Server users can turn to the Server Edition for a better experience in computer management.
