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Hardware acceleration of Chrome's Flash plugin

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Running Flash in Google Chrome drains my CPU massively:

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I figured that the cause of this issue would be that hardware acceleration of flash is turned off. When I tried turning it by right clicking a flash application and selecting settings, this window popped up:

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No hardware acceleration options can be found.

In Chrome, when I open about:gpu, I get to see this:

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How do I turn hardware acceleration on in Flash or is there an alternative way of reducing the CPU usage?

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answered 3 Years ago ampust · Accepted Answer

You should check your about:gpu section in Chrome/ium. In older PC's HW Acceleration is disabled by default and you only can enable it by overriding the settings in the about:flags.

Open the about:flags in your address bar

Look for Override software redendering list

Click "Enable"

Restart Chrome/ium

You can also start chrome using chrome --ignore-gpu-blacklist but having to do so each time is not ideal.

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