Windows 10 2004/ 11 GPU scheduling option causes stream lag

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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The Windows 10 May 2020 Update introduced a couple of ready-to-usefeatures.Those included the new Cortana app, which is now in general availability. Also, the OS came with others likehardware accelerated GPU scheduling, which is undergoing beta testing at the moment.

But, as one Reddit userreports, the hardware acceleratedGPUscheduling experience isn’t exactly smooth in certain scenarios.

Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling setting issue

As a Windows 10 insider, you have to turn on hardware acceleratedGPUscheduling to use it on your PC. That’s because it’s off by default.

However, it just so happens that, when the feature is on but idle, your PC may indicate an abnormally high percentage ofGPUusage. In the case of the Reddit user, their PC would indicate 70% plusGPUusage each time they moved the mouse or interacted with the touch screen.

The user claims to have identified the hardware acceleratedGPUscheduling setting as the root cause of their trouble. That diagnosis makes sense if the problem disappears after disabling the option.

I encountered the problem of my integratedGPUshooting from ~5% of idle usage to in excess of 70% usage whenever I moved the mouse or interacted with the touchscreen. I am on Dev Build 20067-1754 and after some work tracked it to the “Hardware-acceleratedGPUscheduling” option. With this setting disabled, mouse movement and idle usage only rarely causes theGPUto go above 1%.

Apart from that, the Windows 10 insider claims that turning the feature off solved the problem for aTwitchstreamer. The affected user would run into heavy stream lag lasting up to 30 seconds in certain situations, according to the insider.

All in all, you may reasonably expect the graphics processing capability to have some issues here and there before hitting general availability. Also, keep in mind that it’s only recently that somegraphics cardsreceived driver updates to support the Windows 10 2004 feature.

Have you worked with the newWindows 10GPUscheduling capability yet? Please share your experience with the graphics feature in the comments section below.

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Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling setting issue#

Windows 10 2004/ 11 GPU scheduling option causes stream lag

Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling setting issue