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PanicOregon281 Mar 14, 2021 @ 5:26am
Steam Hardware acceleration
if there's a previous thread i've missed can someone point me to it?
Anyways, i'm curious about the way steam handles hardware acceleration. My setup is currently janky because i'm on old hardware, but it will be useful later on when i'm tweaking the setup for my new rig. Is it possible to directly tell steam which GPU to hardware accelerate with through the console or through a command line arguement?
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Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Ok. Now i understand what you are trying to achieve.
No, Steam can not choose which GPU it uses for hardware acceleration.
That is done on a video driver basis.
On laptops you can choose, but on desktop PCs it's a different thing, there you only have one active videocard, which is also the one used for rendering everything.
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Cathulhu Mar 14, 2021 @ 5:29am 
Hardware accelerate what?
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PanicOregon281 Mar 14, 2021 @ 5:48am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Hardware accelerate what?
The UI interface and i believe the overlay are what steam are using the hardware acceleration for. i'm unsure tho, i just know Steam IS using it and even gives an option to not hardware accelerate in the interface settings
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Cathulhu Mar 14, 2021 @ 7:06am 
Ok. Now i understand what you are trying to achieve.
No, Steam can not choose which GPU it uses for hardware acceleration.
That is done on a video driver basis.
On laptops you can choose, but on desktop PCs it's a different thing, there you only have one active videocard, which is also the one used for rendering everything.
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