Override Software Rendering List, GPU Compositing on all Pages Hit About:Flags
Posted on 20. May, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in News
We’re seeing an increased amount of activity in the graphics department when it comes to Chrome. I’m aware of this because there are now two new “about:flags” experiments with the newest builds of Chromium: override software rendering list, and GPU compositing on all Pages.
Instead of using software rendering, the first new flag using GPU-provided capabilities in order to increase overall performance. Using this flag is a welcome replacement from using the command line “–ignore-gpu-blacklist” that allows usage with whatever hardware and drivers your machine has loaded. However, the one drawback may be chronic crashes as a result.
For the GPU compositing on all pages, this is a feature that Google has long been working on and has decided to enable in experiments as it will benefit the video tag in HTML5 as well as make page loading more efficient when dealing with large blocks of data. Want to learn more about GPU compositing? Check out this Chromium document that will give you all of the information you need.
Are we going to be seeing some great new graphical apps and games coming to Chrome soon as a result of some of this work?
via Chrome Story
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7 Responses to “Override Software Rendering List, GPU Compositing on all Pages Hit About:Flags”
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d
21. May, 2011
I have GPU compositing on all pages enabled and now I can’t access any pages, including about:flags. Therefore I can’t disable it.
Do you know another way maybe via terminal to disable the flag?
Cougar Abogado
21. May, 2011
d, which OS are you on? When I’ve had this issue on my Cr-48, I’ve opened up Guest Mode and turned the flags off there, with the result being that my normal login then works fine.
You might want to try an incognito window, if you’re on a different OS.
Other than that, about all I can think of would be 1) try restarting, if you have yet to try that or 2) try re-installing your build.
d
21. May, 2011
I’m on Mac OS. I did re-install the build and everything is fine now. Thanks for your help =)
Cougar Abogado
21. May, 2011
Glad to help.
kekstus
27. May, 2011
Doesnt work for me. Turned GPU rendering for all sites on. How I can reset the about:flags?
andre
30. Apr, 2013
Help how do I find my software override rending list? I followed instructions but nothing!!!!!! Someone please help?
Dredi
11. May, 2013
Fvd speed dial sucks!!!!!!!