Disabling Hardware Acceleration via Group Policy

[Chris @ Cannon]

Hi all,

We have been having some issues in Google Chrome which appear to be related to the use of Hardware Acceleration.  Once turned off the issue does appear to be resolved but our challenge now is deploying a change to switch off acceleration across all our sites (18 schools and the head office).

Can we switch off Hardware Acceleration in Google Chrome via Group Policy?

Thanks in advance.

Chris

[PhistucK]

The policy list does not mention such an option, so I do not think so.

You can change the shortcuts to Google Chrome and append the --disable-gpu command line flag to it for now.

Additionally, you might want to file an issue at crbug.com (if you cannot find an existing similar issue) in order to get the actual underlying issue fixed and post a link to it here.

☆PhistucK

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[Bartosz Fabianowski]

Correct, there is no enterprise policy for disabling hardware
acceleration. We could add such a policy but as PhistucK wrote, fixing
the underlying issue is the right solution. Please file a report at
crbug.com with more information about the problems you are encountering.

- Bartosz

On 08/08/2014 11:47 AM, PhistucK wrote:
> The policy list does not mention such an option, so I do not think so.
> You can change the shortcuts to Google Chrome and append the --disable-gpu
> command line flag to it for now.
>
> Additionally, you might want to file an issue at crbug.com (if you cannot
> find an existing similar issue) in order to get the actual underlying issue
> fixed and post a link to it here.
>
>

> ☆*PhistucK*

[Vangelis Kokkevis]

Chris, 

  Like others in this thread mentioned, we'd like to get to the bottom of the issue. It sounds like there may be a recent regression that's hitting Windows as we've had a few reports of people experiencing slowdowns:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=395253

  If you can, please file a bug and let us know the contents of the about:gpu page as well as whether running chrome with --disable-d3d11 improves the situation.  

Thanks,

Vangelis

[Arjan Kop]

Hi Vangelis,

It's not a windows issue, it's an issue with chrome running on virtual machines. Chrome is by default using hardware accelleration, thinking it's using the GPU, but because there is none, the CPU is hogged.

Running Chrome with --disable-d3d11 doesn't seem to matter. Turning off hardware acceleration saves you about 75% of CPU usage. 

Arjan

Op vrijdag 8 augustus 2014 22:59:06 UTC+2 schreef Vangelis Kokkevis:

[Raja Sekhara]

Yes you can, only thing you need to do is

1. Create a registry key in new GPO, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration 

Registry key	Value type
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration	DWORD

use "Create" flag, and set the dword value to "1" which will disable H/W Acceleration, and apply it on the corresponding machine groups. It should solve the problem.