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Hardware acceleration


AXEL uses software rendering by default, but you can choose to use the hardware acceleration available on your system. You can turn on hardware acceleration for the current project, or change the default behavior so that AXEL uses hardware acceleration for all new projects.

To turn on/off hardware acceleration for the current project:

Choose Visualization > Hardware Acceleration.

Note: Hardware acceleration will not be available if it is not supported by your system's graphics card, even if it is turned on in AXEL.

To know if AXEL is using hardware acceleration:

Right-click the WebCam viewport, and choose Display > Stats or press I.

SW means software rendering, HW means hardware accelerated rendering.

To use hardware acceleration for all new projects:
  1. Right-click the AXEL shortcut icon and choose Properties.
  2. Click the Shortcut tab, then in the Target field, add /hw after the quotation marks.
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