Cool, just another neat thing to know if ya need it!

How to Turn GPU "Hardware Acceleration" On or Off in Chrome

Select the option "Default" and change it to "Disabled".

Just to clarify for the OCD folks like me, the steps indicated specifically show how to turn OFF hardware acceleration, and GPU compositing acceleration is the same as Hardware acceleration. And default means Chrome is referencing a flag embedded in the destination site's HTML to force GPU acceleration already for certain sites but that's all negotiated behind the scenes by the browser.

Do I got it? I'm pretty sure I do, but humor me here and I can sleep better at night knowing for sure

Under windows 7 ultimate x64, Google Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107 m
Hello i tryied the steps but i don't have the option instead i have this :
GPU compositing on all pages Mac, LinuxUses GPU accelerated compositing on all pages, not just those that include GPU-accelerated layers. #force-compositing-mode-2


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Hi,

Sorry for answering so late but I only noticed lately that chrome is taking too much memory and found in Chrome Task Manager a process called GPU that was taking up to 115Mo so I end it and it didn't change anything.

Trying this tutorial, I found the same message as werr. This was weird as if the GPU is not available, why a related process is running ?

I tried to contact the developers through the Leave feedback button on the About page but didn't got any answer.

I finally found this solution that I wanted to share with people which have or will face this problem :

Just create a shortcut to Chrome and then add to the Target field of the Properties window the following command (separated by a space from the "chrome.exe")

Code:

--disable-gpu

and that will prevent this process from running.



If the process keep running, try adding

Code:

 --disable-software-rasterizer

but normally this is not necessary.

Good navigation with a little lighter Chrome !