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March 5, 2015
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Disabling Flash Hardware Acceleration OUTSIDE of a web browser

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Hello!

I know that the Hardware Acceleration of Adobe Flash can be disabled by right-clicking on a YouTube video, selecting Settings and removing the tick. But is there a way to disable it from outside of a web browser, maybe in a form of an .ini file or something like that? Or is there maybe another way to invoke the settings box which would alow me access to the Hardware Acceleration enable/disable feature? But it has to be accesible outside of the web browser (namely Firefox).

Thank you!

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Anonymous
March 5, 2015

Anyone, please?

I've tried by entering DisableHardwareAcceleration=1 into the mms.cfg but that didn't do anything.

Please help me, thank you.

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March 5, 2015

Hi Kurac,

DisableHardwareAcceleration=1 is the way to disable hardware acceleration in the mms.cfg file, which the Player reads from.  If you feel this is not functioning, please file a bug at https://bugbase.adobe.com. Please provide as much information as possible (hardware, software, flash content, etc) so that we can investigate the issue.

Thank you.

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Maria

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Anonymous
March 6, 2015

I have 64-bit Windows 7 so my mms.cfg file location (which applies to 32-bit Firefox) is here: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg.

I have added the line DisableHardwareAcceleration=1 to it but when I opened Firefox and right-clicked on a video in Youtube Flash's settings still showed that the hardware acceleration was enabled.

Should I maybe reboot the PC or do something else to apply the DisableHardwareAcceleration=1 to Flash in Firefox?

Thank you.

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