Hardware acceleration is used to improve performance, to enable to use of the hardware for particular tasks instead of performing the tasks through software. Hardware graphics acceleration is used to perform the graphics-related activities through the hardware; instead of the software. Microsoft Office applications use hardware acceleration to enable to improve the performance of the application. We can set this option to use hardware acceleration whenever we want.
Below are the steps we can use to enable or disable hardware graphics acceleration in Microsoft Visio.
Step 1. Open Visio. Then, click on the File menu. Visio will display the left side panel where you can select the options to create or open the Visio files. From this panel, select the Options item. Visio will open, the Visio Options dialog.
Step 2. From the Visio Options dialog, select the Advanced tab from the left side panel. It will display the advanced options for working with Visio.
Step 3. From the advanced options, look for the Display section. You can scroll down to see the Display section. Then, check the checkbox “Disable hardware graphics acceleration” to disable the hardware graphics acceleration; otherwise, uncheck the checkbox to enable the hardware graphics acceleration.
Step 4. Once changes are done, click on the OK button to apply the changes.
🙂 Sahida.
I do not see “disable hardware graphics acceleration” as an option in Visio 2019. Does that me it is already disabled due to my graphics card?
It means hardware acceleration is not active. If the hardware & drivers are compatible Office will use the hardware acceleration to render the graphics.