I'm trying to get a solid grasp on what, exactly, hardware acceleration does in Windows 7, and when (if ever) it would be a good reason to turn it off. Here's the issue: I have a user here who uses a ...

My computer has been acting up recently. It is as if I have lost a major portion of video hardware acceleration.<BR><BR>Symptoms:<BR>I have had a few weird crashes, it doesn't always come back on the ...

Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...