Windows 10: Windows Automatically Disabled Hardware Acceleration on my browser and there is no way to...

One day I was messing around with overclocking my gpu, and it was unstable and my display was all buggy, so I went to revert it. My browser happened to be open at the time, and while I was reconnecting my gpu to sort of reset it, Windows popped up a notification that it had disabled hardware acceleration for Firefox due to the instability. I tried to click on this notification and I got nothing, and when I looked into my old notifications, it was gone, I could not get any more information about this decision that my system had made. Now my browser has hardware acceleration permanently disabled

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Windows 10 How can I turn off 3D Hardware Acceleration?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

In order to disable 3D hardware acceleration, I suggest you to follow the steps below.

• Right click on the desktop and select Graphics properties.
• Select Basic Mode and hit OK.
• Go to the 3D option.
• You can disable 3D graphics acceleration from this screen.

Hope this helps. Please reply for further queries on this.

 

How to disable hardware acceleration?


The green screen in videos happens with Flash, not video drivers. You have disable Flash Hardware acceleration in its setting when you right click on the video. If it happens with HTML5 videos, then you have to disable the web browser Hardware acceleration.

This has been an issue since 10240 came out. It is happening with both AMD & NVidia GPU's. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is still on the bug list when I pulled down 10525, which brought other headaches.

 

Hardware Acceleration in Windows 10

I apologize in advance as I am not in IT, but I was recently having trouble with some features while streaming videos. The only fix suggested was to disable hardware acceleration (that's why I'm posting this). I unsuccessfully followed the instructions
suggested to me & they are the same as suggested here by
Ramesh.Kumar (control panel.........display.........advanced settings...........[I'm skipping steps]........troubleshooting). I couldn't find the troubleshooting or hardware acceleration options anywhere.

I did find a way to adjust these settings even though I never saw the actual words, "hardware acceleration". I am sharing it with you if you still need it.

Right Click on desktop > graphics properties

From there you can go to "Display" and/or "3D" and adjust the settings as wanted.

Good luck!

JD