Windows 11 has an advanced setting called hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling that can boost gaming and video performance using your PC’s GPU. We’ll show you how to enable the feature and potentially improve performance.
What is Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling?
Normally, your computer’s processor offloads some visual and graphics-intensive data to the GPU for rendering to keep games, multimedia, and other apps running smoothly. The CPU collects the frame data, assigns commands and prioritizes them one by one so the GPU can render the frame.
With the hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling feature, the GPU’s scheduling processor and memory (VRAM) does the same work and executes it in batches to render the frames. This way, your GPU offloads some work from the processor and reduces latency to potentially make your PC run better.
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What you need for this feature to work
Although this feature was introduced with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, it is still disabled in Windows 11. Also, your computer must have an NVIDIA (GTX 1000 and higher) or AMD (5600 series or higher) graphics card with the latest graphics driver.
Unfortunately, no specific combination of hardware (CPU and GPU) is known yet that achieves the best performance with this function. Therefore, your mileage using this feature may vary depending on the CPU, GPU, and graphics drivers on your PC.
Here is how you can activate it on your Windows 11 PC.
Enable hardware accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows 11
Before you begin, you should update the graphics drivers on your PC.
To get started, press Windows + i to open the Settings app. In the System section on the right, select Display.
In the Related Settings section, select Graphics.
Select “Change default graphics settings”.
Then turn on the switch under “Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling” and choose “Yes” from the User Access Control prompt that appears.
After that, you can close the Settings app and restart your PC to apply the change.
microsoft explained that you may not notice significant changes immediately. However, if this feature slows down your PC’s performance instead of improving it, you can turn it off.
To do this, again go to Settings > System > Display > Graphics settings > and click on “Change default graphics settings”. Then turn off the switch under “Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling” and select “Yes” in the User Access Control prompt.
That’s it! You can check if it improves the game and app experience on your Windows 11 PC.
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