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

[Martin22500265pw74]

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!

[Doc Maik]

They updated to Win11 only or did they also install Indesign anew? Because if not, this seems like a topic for "How to trash my preferences" or how this is called. At least in the latest 20.4.1 there is a button for it. Menu->Edit->Preferences->General->Reset preferences on Quit.

Sure, you'll lose all your settings, but it may help.

[Martin22500265pw74]

Thanks, thats something I did not wanted to hear but I guess theres no choice. 

I deleted every default setting. Via holding STRG,SHIFT,ALT at startup, I deleted the folders in AppData, I reinstalled InDesign but its still not solved. 

[BobLevine]

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.

[Abhishek Rao]

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