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How to disable GPU Hardware acceleration in the new Microsoft Teams to allow better performance?

Anonymous
2024-05-05T21:58:16+00:00

Hello Guys,

I did some searches about the topic and founded that on the older versions of Microsoft Teams it was possible to disable hardware aceleration to get better performance in low specs PC'S.

Unfortunately, I cannot find any setting on the latest version of Microsoft Teams that allows me to do that.

So here is My question.

How can i disable hardware aceleration in the new Microsoft Teams?

That's it for now.

Thank you very much in advance.

Bye!

Hugo.

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  1. Mr. Trust_A 4,815 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-06-24T09:40:36+00:00

    Hello Hugo Plácido,

    The option to toggle off GPU Acceleration is currently not available in the new Teams. At present, there is no workaround, but you can close applications that are not necessary.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks,

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-13T06:58:47+00:00

    My system is still consuming a lot memory from new ms teams.
    I found this from Thomas Tech blog
    Below link suggest settings which can be set for GPU

    How to disable GPU acceleration in New Teams - Thomas' Tech Tips (thomasdamgaard.dk)
    text from above link ->
    This is no longer possible in New Teams.

    Fortunately, there is a workaround:

    1. Exit Teams
    2. Open the file %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\desktop-config.json (e.g. C:\Users\username\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\desktop-config.json)
    3. Find the setting appPreferenceSettings.
    4. In that block, find this property "appPreferenceSettings":{ ... ,"disableGpu":false, ...} . and set it to: "appPreferenceSettings":{ ... ,"disableGpu":true, ...}

    If "disableGpu" is not in the list, then add it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-24T14:44:50+00:00

    Resolution (Windows):

    Teams 2.1 is a WebView2 client, so the way it works is slightly different than other electron apps. Briefly WebView2 apps are applications that use Microsoft Edge's rendering engine to display web content in native apps. They can embed web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

    WebView2 applications require WebView2 Runtime to function. Windows 11 already includes WebView2 Runtime, but Windows 10 does not.

    So in Windows 11 there are some inbuilt commands which can help disable GPU acceleration.

    Setting User Environment Variable in Windows:

    User environment variables are stored in the

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment registry key.

    whereas

    System environment variables are stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key.

    One of the easiest ways is to set the user environment variable using cmd prompt. For disable GPU acceleration, run:

    setx WEBVIEW2_ADDITIONAL_BROWSER_ARGUMENTS --disable-gpu

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-03T12:51:16+00:00

    Your reply doesn't make sense!
    How can closing other apps could solve a teams issue with graphic acceleration?
    If you have nothing helpful to say, I suggest to be quiet!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-03T14:06:49+00:00

    Hello Hugo Plácido,

    The option to toggle off GPU Acceleration is currently not available in the new Teams. At present, there is no workaround, but you can close applications that are not necessary.

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks,

    This is not necessarily the correct answer. The "disable-gpu" webview2 browser flag seems to work for users that are required to disable the GPU. The proper answer is "The option to toggle off GPU Acceleration is currently not available in the new Teams. As of now there is a workaround utilizing the "disable-gpu" webview2 browser flag. This method is unsupported and may be deprecated without notice. For more information on this and other browser flags see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/webview-features-flags?tabs=dotnetcsharp."

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