How Turn On or Off Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10
If you GPU comes with a driver that supports hardware acceleration in Windows 10, you can turn on the Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling option. This should help reduce latency and improve video output system performance.
Hardware acceleration is a great feature that allows using your computer's graphic card the to perform video (and some other) calculations more efficiently than is possible in software mode, that always utilizes CPU, a general-purpose unit. Graphics card drivers usually implement hardware acceleration to allow quicker, smoother playback of videos and games. Graphics cards are also better at physics and fast mathematical calculations than a CPU.
Before proceeding, ensure that your user account has administrative privileges. Now, follow the instructions below.
To Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10,
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to System > Display.
- On the right, click on the link Graphics settings. See notes below if you don't have it.
- On the next page, click on Change default graphics settings.
- Finally, turn on of off the Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling toggle option on the next page.
- Restart Windows 10.
You are done.
Note: The Graphics settings won't appear if you GPU drivers or device doesn't support hardware acceleration in Windows 10.
Alternatively, you can apply a Registry tweak.
Turn On or Off Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Registry
- Download the following ZIP archive: Download ZIP archive.
- Extract its contents to any folder. You can place the files directly to the Desktop.
- Unblock the files.
- Double click on the
Turn On Hardware-Accelerated Gpu Scheduling.regfile to merge it.
- To undo the change, use the included file
Turn Off Hardware-Accelerated Gpu Scheduling.reg.
You are done!
How does it work
The Registry files above modify the Registry branch
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
Tip: See how to go to a Registry key with one click.
To add the Customize tab, create a new 32-bit DWORD value HwSchMode under the mentioned path. Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows you must still create a 32-bit DWORD value.
- Set its value data to 1 to Disable the feature.
- Set its value data to 2 to Enable the feature.
That's it.
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Забыли важные уточнения.
1. Требуется инсайдерская сборка Windows 10 от 19041 и выше.
2. Требуется видеодрайвер с поддержкой WDDM 2.7.
which version of windows 10 does this work on? Does it work with amd radeon rx 570?
Build 19041+
WDDM 2.7
How to check if my graphics card support this feature ?
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PS 1.1 — GeForce 3, DirectX 8.
PS 1.2 — 3Dlabs Wildcat VP, DirectX 8.0a.
PS 1.3 — GeForce 4 Ti, DirectX 8.0a.
PS 1.4 — Radeon 8500-9250, DirectX 8.1.
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Shader Model 2.0a — GeForce FX/PCX-optimized model, DirectX 9.0a.
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Shader Model 5.0 — Radeon HD 5000 and GeForce 400, DirectX 11.
Shader Model 5.1 — GCN 1.0 and Fermi+, DirectX 12 (11_0 and 11_1) with WDDM 2.0.
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