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Disabling Hardware Acceleration
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:
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Office
- Internet Explorer
The attached TXT file is a registry module import for ProU. Please remove the .txt to make it a .json for import.
Comments
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.
Yup, I have already started sending this out to my customers.
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!