Use hardware acceleration when available

Specify to use hardware acceleration, if it's available. If you enable this policy or don't configure it, hardware acceleration is enabled unless a GPU feature is explicitly blocked.

If you disable this policy, hardware acceleration is disabled.

Supported on: Microsoft Edge version 77, Windows 7 or later

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
Value Name	HardwareAccelerationModeEnabled
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

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Use hardware acceleration when available

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