Disable Hardware Acceleration In MS Office

I've never understood why this is a setting within MS Office. Hardware acceleration should be something controlled at the operating system level.

It would appear that to improve performance MS Office will change the display frequency depending on what's being displayed. Some displays will handle a change in frequency smoothly, some will give a momentary black screen, not expecting the frequency to be changed while in use. Disabling hardware acceleration within MS Office means that the display will stay locked to a specific frequency and not keep interupting use with blank screens. Any MS Office user is not typically going to notice the difference between 60Hz and 75Hz and the flicker is more annoying.

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Tags:Windows, Office, Issues, Tech Support

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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Thursday 13th Jan 2022.
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