Why aren't Flash videos using Hardware Acceleration?

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Flash videos not using Hardware Acceleration

Hi,

I have new Surface Book i7 (16gb mem 512 gb SSD) with the Nvidia graphics card. I just noticed that when I play flash videos through either Chrome or Edge the system doesn't seem to use Hardware Acceleration (that you can set in the flash settings)

I presume this because the CPU usage for the browser while playing at full screen is about 10% (low res) while my older laptop (which has a similar config older i7 16gb descrete graphics etc.) runs at about 2.5%. Also the fan comes on pretty quickly because the CPU heats up fast.

I tried using the Nvidia control panel and adding the browsers to the 'preferred graphics processor' list but this had no effect. Any ideas how I can resolve this?

Thanks,

Arif

 

[orlbuckeye]

Try this

How to Turn off Hardware Acceleration (with Pictures)