Turning off hardware acceleration in Discord / Chrome
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What it does
Disabling GPU ('hardware') acceleration in background apps like Discord or your browser to 'free the GPU' for games.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. It moves those apps' rendering onto the CPU — the resource games are more often short on while the GPU is busy. A chat window costs the GPU next to nothing, and modern GPUs juggle apps fine. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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