Windows – Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)

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I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube.

Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration.
The drivers for the graphics card are installed.

The statistics in Youtube still show 'software video decoding'.

How can I confirm that hardware acceleration is correctly working (if at all) in Windows 7?

I'm using:
Chrome,
Ati Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Best Answer

You can use following URL to check if GPU acceleration is enabled for video decode in Chrome: chrome://gpu/

Graphics Feature Status
    Canvas: Hardware accelerated
    Compositing: Hardware accelerated on all pages and threaded
    3D CSS: Hardware accelerated
    CSS Animation: Accelerated and threaded
    WebGL: Hardware accelerated
    WebGL multisampling: Hardware accelerated
    Flash 3D: Hardware accelerated
    Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
    Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
    Texture Sharing: Hardware accelerated
    Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
    Video: Hardware accelerated

Problems Detected
    Accelerated video decode interferes with GPU blacklist on older Intel drivers: 180695
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