Disabling Hardware Acceleration

Adam

On virtual machines, even though there is no vGPU in the host, VMware tools still have a driver that looks like a GPU to the OS and the applications. Making a few simple tweaks to the registry, group policy, or ProfileUnity to turn off hardware acceleration to core applications on non vGPU virtual machines can result in a CPU reduction on your host operating system.

More information can be found here: https://community.liquidware.com/discussion/39/stratusphere-spotcheck-methodology-cheat-sheet

The attached PDF will guide you through disabling hardware acceleration either through GPO, Registry, or ProU for the following applications:

1. Google Chrome
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Microsoft Office
4. Microsoft Edge
5. Internet Explorer

The attached TXT file is a registry module import for ProU. Please remove the .txt to make it a .json for import.

HardwareAcceleration.pdf

HardwareAcceleration_2019_09_03.json.txt

Chris_Walker

This is great information. Thanks Adam! Based on my findings in Stratusphere if clients implement this change they will get back 8-10% of the CPU on their hypervisor.

mtorian

https://community.liquidware.com/discussion/comment/19#Comment_19

Yup, I have already started sending this out to my customers.

jmattox

Nice work @Adam, this will now be part of the 6.8.3 default templates shipping next month. Customer's can just enable the rule if they dont have hardware GPU's and get performance back!

Adam

Here is the document for Microsoft Edge:

HardwareAcceleration_Edge.pdf