When I fullscreen a HD YouTube video or do other stuff that should be hardware accelerated, Chrome slows to a crawl. Taking a look at chrome://gpu
shows this:
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Flash: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Flash Stage3D: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Software only, threaded. Hardware acceleration unavailable
Rasterization: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Threaded Rasterization: Unavailable
Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Video Encode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL: Unavailable
Which explains the stuttering video playback. However I can't find a way to enable hardware acceleration. Under chrome://flags
I have Override software rendering list
enabled and Disable WebGL
is disabled. Also under Chrome's settings I have Use hardware acceleration when available
checked.
I'm using the proprietary Radeon driver for my Radeon R9 290 video card:
Any ideas what I can do to make Chrome use my video card for hardware acceleration?