How to Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10


If the graphics card and its WDDM 2.7 driver for your Windows 10 build 19041 and higher computer supports hardware acceleration, you can turn on hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling to reduce latency and improve video output performance.

See also: Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling | Microsoft DirectX Developer Blog

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to turn on or off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.



Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Settings
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling using a REG file






OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Settings


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

2 Click/tap on Display on the left side, and click/tap on the Graphics settings link on the right side. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10-hardware-accelerated_gpu_scheduling-1.png

3 Click/tap on the Change default graphics settings link under Default settings at the top. (see screenshot below)

If you do not have this setting, then your graphics card does not support hardware acceleration.

Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10-hardware-accelerated_gpu_scheduling-2.png

4 Turn on or off (default) Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10-hardware-accelerated_gpu_scheduling-3.png

5 Restart the computer to apply.






OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling using a REG file


This option will not have any affect if your graphics card does not support hardware acceleration.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers

HwSchMode DWORD

1 = Off
2 = On


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2 To Turn On Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_hardware-accelerated_GPU_scheduling.reg

Download


3 To Turn Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_hardware-accelerated_GPU_scheduling.reg

Download


4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 Restart the computer to apply.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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