Trying to Disable Hardware Acceleration on my Gateway


  1. Posts : 120
    Windows 7
       #1

    Trying to Disable Hardware Acceleration on my Gateway


    I am still trying to disable hardware acceleration fully on my Gateway NV52 with the ATi Radeon card. It seems to escape me on Windows 7 but I have only found directions on Vista so any help would be greatly appreciated.


    Thanks Again for the Space.

    Gateway NV52 ATI Radeon
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  2. Posts : 120
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #2

    UPDATE I have played around with getting all the way up to:

    1 Click Start / Control Panel /
    Appearance and Personalization.
    2 Under Personalization, click
    Adjust screen resolution.
    3 On the Display Settings dialog, click the
    Advanced Settings... button.



    Then....




    4 On the monitor properties dialog, click the Troubleshoot tab.
    5 Click the Change settings button.



    That Change Settings button is shadowed out so I cannot click it, obviously because Windows knows more then me I guess.




    Help?




    The link I used....




    How to turn off Windows global hardware acceleration
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  3. Posts : 607
    7 x64 Ultimate
       #3

    Consider downloading the ATI Catalyst Control Center and using that to tune your display adapter.
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  4. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #4

    Out of interest, why are you wanting to disable hardware acceleration?
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  5. Posts : 120
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    logicearth said:
    Out of interest, why are you wanting to disable hardware acceleration?
    Because Video Playback is so choppy even with a brand new NV52 Computer with 25MBPS hard wire connection and it just lags. My 5 year old XP just streams video MUCH faster with hardware acceleration disabled. It's a disgrace.
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  6. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #6

    Since you are having some much problems with the machine. I suggest just format that thing and install Windows 7 fresh, none of the extra crap OEMs install. Or take the machine back to Gateway.
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  7. BWK
    Posts : 177
    win7 ultimate x64
       #7

    Hey there, I did a little research for you... have you tried what is listed here?
    DirectDraw or Direct3D option is unavailable
    I hope this helps you out. Saves a little time as compared to reformatting.
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