What does hardware acceleration mean in the publish settings?

[Firewood：D]

When you open the publish settings, you will see the hardware acceleration option. The default is "None". There are two more options in the drop-down list, "Direct" and "GPU". Can anyone explain what this means? Will checking different options improve the smooth performance of the current document? This is confusing.

[JoãoCésar · Accepted solution]

Hi.

The other options only work if the SWF is embedded in a HTML file.

As for how they work:

Level 1 - Direct

Direct mode improves playback performance by allowing Flash Player to draw directly on the screen instead of letting the browser do the drawing.

Level 2 - GPU

In GPU mode, Flash Player utilizes the available computing power of the graphics card to perform video playback and compositing of layered graphics. This provides another level of performance benefit depending on the user's graphics hardware. Use this option when you expect that your audience will have high-end graphics cards.

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/publish-settings.html

[Firewood：D]

Thanks for your reply, it solved my doubts. My workflow does not need to be set up for this.