what is hardware acceleration?

Janean Guz: its graphics acceleration by the way. i reinstalled windows 7 on my laptop. before i reinstalled it all drivers were working fine but now i get a window saying 'hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video card driver, which could slow performance'

Ninfa Asby: "hardware acceleration" means letting your CPU offload certain types of processing (usually graphics-related processing) to another chip inside your computer. This helps the machine perform better because by delegating those jobs to another chip the CPU is free to handle more work. This only works if you actually have the right hardware inside your computer (usually a graphics card). And if your computer came with the proper hardware then it should already be enabled by default....Show more

Chris Wilczewski: Sound or graphics acceleration?Check the control panel for each, or the software used.