Disable Hardware Acceleration in Chrome Using the Registry

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Open Registry Editor in admin mode then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies

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Right-click Policies

·         Select New – Key

·         Name: Google

Right-click Google

·         Select New – Key

·         Name: Chrome

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The Policies key should look like this now:

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Right-click Chrome

·         Select “New” > “DWORD 32-bit value“

·         Name:  HardwareAccelerationModeEnabled

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Leave the value set to zero to disable hardware acceleration. Set to 1 to enable.

• 0 = Disabled
• 1 = Enabled

Regedit should look like the picture  when complete: