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 memory directly to boost game performance and speed up video editing. This feature cuts down input lag by a noticeable amount between your mouse clicks and the action on your screen.
You need a graphics card that supports this feature and a WDDM 2.7 (Windows Display Driver Model) or newer driver to turn it on. Open the Settings app to change this setting, but you need administrator rights to make it work.
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)
Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling lets your graphics card manage its own memory to help reduce lag and improve game performance. You can turn hardware accelerated GPU scheduling on or off in the Windows 11 Settings app by going to System, Display, and Graphics, then clicking the link for default graphics settings.
- 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
Summary
To use it, you generally need a newer graphics card and up-to-date drivers.
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