Disabling excel graphics hardware acceleration to resolve display and performance issues
Overview
Users of Excel 2013 and 2016 have found that disabling Excel Graphics Hardware Acceleration can resolve display issues, improve stability and improve performance.
If you are experiencing any odd behaviours in Excel, we strongly recommend you try disabling it and see if it resolves issues.
Note
- If you are using Excel 2007 or 2010, you do not need to worry about disabling graphics hardware acceleration as those versions of Excel didn't use the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) for displaying information.
How to manually disable excel graphics hardware acceleration
To disable disable excel graphics hardware acceleration manually, follow these steps.
- Start Excel;
- Click on File, then Options;
- Select Advanced on the list on the left hand side
- Scroll to Display options;
- Tick Disable Excel Graphics Hardware Acceleration;
- Click OK to save the changes.