How to Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 11
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows 11 lets your graphics card manage its own video memory directly.
This feature can improve how smoothly your PC runs demanding tasks like games and video editing by reducing delays.
For it to work, your graphics card needs to support hardware acceleration, and you need a graphics driver version WDDM 2.7 or newer.
You can turn this setting on or off within Windows 11 Settings, but you’ll need administrator permission to make the change.
Navigate to Settings System Display Graphics. Click “Change default graphics settings” and toggle “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” on or off. A restart is required to apply changes.
Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Settings
- Open Settings by pressing ⊞ Win+I.
- Click System on the left side. Then click Display on the right side. (See screenshot below)
- Click Graphics on the right side. (See screenshot below)
Open Graphics settings - Click the Change default graphics settings link. (See screenshot below)
You can turn hardware accelerated GPU scheduling on or off directly in Windows 11 Settings. This feature helps your graphics card manage its memory more efficiently, potentially improving game performance and reducing lag. To find the setting, open Settings , go to System, then Display, and click on Graphics.
- Turn On or Off (default) Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling based on what you want. (See screenshots below)
If you don’t see a Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling option, your device doesn’t support it.
- ⚠️ Requires Admin: Restart your computer to apply the changes.
Option 2Using Registry Editor
Turn On or Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling Using Registry
⚠️ Requires Admin: Open the Terminal app with administrator privileges and enter the following commands. This grants the necessary permissions to modify system settings.
To Turn On Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers" /v HwSchMode /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
To Turn Off Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling
This is the default setting.
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers" /v HwSchMode /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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