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
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. The toggle exists as a workaround for broken drivers, not a performance lever; flipping it 'for FPS' usually trades nothing gained for choppier app windows and a bit more CPU load.
How Compy treats it
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 Compy Blackbook holds 174 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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