How to disable hardware acceleration in Windows 10

[black_octagon]

In Windows 7, I could disable hardware acceleration by simply right-clicking a Flash Player video/animation and entering settings.

In Windows 10, the ability to do this seems to have been removed from the settings section.

Thank you for your help.

[MrX1980]

I also missing the tab "Hardware acceleration" within IE11 and Microsoft Edge (Active-X / 19.0.0.226). Firefox (NPAPI / 19.0.0.228) and Google Chrome (PPAPI / 19.0.0.207 & 228) has this tab.

I see this on different devices (2x PC & 1x Notebook)

Currently I'm using Windows 10 Insider Build 10565 x64 german (de-de)

Microsoft Edge & IE11:

Google Chrome & Firefox:

chrome://gpu/

Graphics Feature Status

• Canvas: Hardware accelerated
• Flash: Hardware accelerated
• Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
• Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
• Compositing: Hardware accelerated
• Multiple Raster Threads: Disabled
• Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
• Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
• Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
• WebGL: Hardware accelerated

DXVA Checker:

ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series

MPEG2_IDCT: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG2_A: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG2_C: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD

H264_VLD_NoFGT: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

H264_VLD_NoFGT_Flash: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

6719B6FB-5CAD-4ACB-B00A-F3BFDEC38727: DXVA2

VC1_VLD: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

CA15D19A-2B48-43D6-979E-7A6E9C802FF8: DXVA2

5B23D46D-FA5F-4FDC-B78A-7EB2787942EC: DXVA2

Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000

MPEG2_VLD: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG2_IDCT: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG2_A: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG2_C: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD

VC1_VLD_2_ClearVideo: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

VC1_VLD_ClearVideo: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

H264_VLD_NoFGT_ClearVideo: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

H264_VLD_NoFGT: DXVA2, SD / HD / FHD

A74CCAE2-F466-45AE-86F5-AB8BE8AF8483: DXVA2

WMV9_IDCT: DXVA1/2, SD / HD / FHD

VC1_IDCT: DXVA1/2, SD / HD / FHD

49761BEC-4B63-4349-A5FF-87FFDF088466: DXVA2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

MPEG2_IDCT: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG2and1_VLD: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG2_VLD: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG2_A: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG2_C: DXVA1, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG1_VLD: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

VC1_VLD2010: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

VC1_VLD: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

VC1_IDCT: DXVA1/2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

WMV9_IDCT: DXVA1/2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

32FCFE3F-DE46-4A49-861B-AC71110649D5: DXVA2/D3D11

H264_VLD_Stereo_Progressive_NoFGT: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

H264_VLD_Stereo_NoFGT: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

H264_VLD_NoFGT: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

1B81BE6A-A0C7-11D3-B984-00C04F2E73C5: DXVA2/D3D11

H264_VLD_SVC_Scalable_Constrained_High: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

HEVC_VLD_Main: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD / 4K

MPEG4pt2_VLD_Simple: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

MPEG4pt2_VLD_AdvSimple_NoGMC: DXVA2/D3D11, SD / HD / FHD

9947EC6F-689B-11DC-A320-0019DBBC4184: DXVA2/D3D11

33FCFE41-DE46-4A49-861B-AC71110649D5: DXVA2/D3D11

B194EB52-19A0-41F0-B754-CC244AC1CB20: DXVA2/D3D11

6AFFD11E-1D96-42B1-A215-93A31F09A53D: DXVA2/D3D11

4B2E068F-396A-43DF-B86B-7DC6D2B6726A: DXVA1

312B6A3A-41DE-4A43-9C0F-FB3D5F0DFB9A: DXVA1

[MrX1980]

Bug#4070046 - Flash player has no hardware acceleration on Win10 IE/Edge?

[MrX1980]

Still the same with build 10576

[MrX1980 · Accepted solution]

It is solved with Flash Player v20

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_20_air_20_release_notes.html

Flash Player "Enable Hardware acceleration" setting for Edge and IE on Windows 8/10

The “Enable Hardware acceleration” option has been introduced to support the manual switching between software and hardware accelerated operations for the following features:

Video playback

Stage3D rendering.

The option is intended to allow users to force a software fallback to resolve display problems caused by faulty GPU drivers.