Apps Enable or Disable Graphics Hardware Acceleration in Copilot Web Browsing on Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off using graphics hardware acceleration for web browsing in Copilot app on Windows 11.

The Microsoft Copilot app is your AI app for work. Copilot connects to the Microsoft 365 apps and content you use every day, creates polished documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, gets things done with Cowork, lets you choose between leading AI models, understands your job and company through Work IQ, and keeps your data protected.

When you sign in to Copilot, your experience adapts to your account: a licensed work-or-school experience with enterprise data protection, or a personal experience for individuals, with or without a Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscription.

Microsoft Copilot app now supports in-app browsing on Windows 11, allowing users to open websites side-by-side with chat. Users can manage tabs, toggle full-screen, or open links externally. Data is stored locally, similar to Edge.

Websites that Copilot shares in chat can open inside of the desktop app side by side with the Copilot chat conversation.

Hardware acceleration is a feature enabled in Copilot web browsing by default that lets Copilot move all graphics and text rendering from the CPU to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) when available. This frees up resources on your computer so it can run other applications faster.

If you are noticing slow web page rendering or issues with HTML5 videos or font rendering, you can see if disabling hardware acceleration may help. The current graphics driver may have compatibility issues or the display adapter might not support the proper acceleration profile, so it decreases performance instead of improving it.

Reference:

Browsing history, cookies, autofill information for web browsing in the Copilot app are stored on the local device in the user Data profile directory at %localappdata%\Microsoft\Copilot\User Data.

Here's How:

1 Open the Copilot app.

2 Open Copilot Chat settings.

3 Click/tap on Web browsing on the left side, and click/tap on System and performance. (see screenshot below)


4 Click/tap on System. (see screenshot below)


5 Turn on (default) or off Use graphics acceleration when available for what you want.



That's it,
Shawn Brink