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How to turn off hardware acceleration in a web browser *

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Whenever you face a problem in your web browser try turning off hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration in computing happens when an application will offload tasks onto a GPU, also known as GPU rendering. Web browsers have the option to use this option which can be turned on or off. This can be problematic at times. Known problems with browser hardware acceleration. lag or hanging in browser, Web browser crashing frequently and randomly, Web browser is very slow at startup, Fonts and text look weird, Keyboard lag while typing in text boxes on web pages, Colors are either very bright or very dull while browsing web pages, high CPU usage and high RAM amount

BT Sport and iPlayer video stuttering when using Chrome or Microsoft Edge *

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 BT Sport and iPlayer video stuttering when using Chrome or Microsoft Edge Windows 10 PC. I n the last week or so I have started having problems when watching BT sports using Chrome or Microsoft Edge. This method has worked fine for me for a few years now so something has changed. The stream seems to have a problem of some kind, keeps buffering, stuttering etc. My broadband speed is 200mB/s so no bandwidth problem. I have found a solution to this but would like a fix. If I use Firefox web browser the stream is rock solid and works fine without and stuttering. This seems to imply that Chrome or Edge are managing the stream differently. By the way I also stream using Sky Go and that works fine. After messing around with chrome, extensions and many other things it turns out that Hardware Video Acceleration was the culprit. Turning Hardware Acc off fixed the stuttering problem. You can turn off Vid Acc from the chrome settings menu, then the option is hidden in the system tab "Use H...