Display driver does not allow hardware acceleration changes vista

 · Right-click Desktop Personalize display settings Advanced Settings Troubleshoot and changes settings is grayed in and it says. Your current display driver does not allow changed to be made to hardware acceleration settings.  · "Your current display driver does not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration settings" I had no problems setting the hardware acceleration in the Troubleshooting tab on Windows Server , and when I was using Vista on the same computer, everything was fine.  · AFAIK in Vista the graphics card drivers do not allow you to adjust the amount of hardware acceleration. However, they do allow you to select what features other then basic decoding acceleration are enabled when your decoder program elects hardware acceleration. "Screwdriver" wrote in message news:[email protected].

You can follow the below steps to turn on graphics acceleration 1.) Open Display Settings by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, clicking Personalization, and then clicking Display Settings 2.) Click Display Settings, and then click Advanced Settings. 3.). b. Click Advanced Settings, click the Troubleshoot tab, and then click Change settings. Note that some graphics card drivers do not permit you to change settings. c. Move the Hardware acceleration slider toward None to reduce or turn off video hardware acceleration. Regards, Afzal Taher - Microsoft Support. I've been advised to turn hardware acceleration down/off in order to fix these problems. When I go to display settings - advanced settings - troubleshoot tab, the change settings button is grayed out. Under the button, it says "Your current display driver does not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration settings".

OpenGL hardware acceleration is available on Windows Vista through highly optimized drivers provided by the graphics hardware vendor just as on. This is not running a VM but using the internal Intel Settings - display - Graphics - change default graphics settings. Firefox and plugins can use your graphics card to speed things up. To enable this or to fix problems, you may need to update the graphics card drivers.