Default Display Performance and GPU/CPU Preview Settings in InDesign after Windows 11 Update

Question

Hello community,since my laptop was updated to Windows 11 by our IT department, I’ve noticed two annoying changes in Adobe InDesign: Display Performance is now always set to High Quality when I open any document. Previously, it used to default to Typical (or Normal), which worked better for my not-so-powerful laptop. I have to manually switch it back every time. The View > GPU Performance setting always reverts to CPU. That’s understandable, since my GPU can’t handle it well—but again, I have to set it manually each time. Is there a way to set Display Performance to Typical and force CPU Preview as the default for all documents? Thanks in advance!

Abhishek Rao · Accepted Answer

Hi @Martin22500265pw74,

Thanks for sharing all these details. I totally understand how frustrating this can be when you’re working across different documents.

Adding to what the expert suggested, try setting your Display Performance to Typical and adjust the GPU Performance setting(disable it) while no documents are open in InDesign. Doing this without any documents open should save these as your default settings for all new documents you open going forward.

Please give this a try and let me know if it helps.

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Abhishek

BobLevine · Answer

Display performance is a document specific preference. The file will open with that setting as it was when the document was saved.

To test this, save a document with it set to typical, close it and then try to open it again.

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