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How do I know when to use hardware acceleration?

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Mar 15, 202696400 views
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I'm not sure I know what hardware acceleration ("...use of computer hardware to perform some function faster") is, but when I play flash games, or 3D FPS games, I'm asked if I want to use hardware acceleration. What criteria should I mentally weigh before checking or un-checking a box? Does hardwar…

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Hardware acceleration is where certain processes - usually 3D graphics processing - is performed on specialist hardware on the graphics card (the GPU) rather than in software on the main CPU. In general you should always enable hardware acceleration…

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