Disabling the GPU

Overview

On some environments when running OpenFin, you may encounter hardware compatibility issues, setting the disable GPU flag via runtime arguments can alleviate such issues.  

Solution 

To disable the GPU successfully add the following flags to the runtime arguments.

--disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

Description:

1. Chromium flag: --disable-gpu

   Purpose: Disables all GPU usage for rendering and compositing.

   Outcome: Forces the application to perform all graphics processing on the CPU, bypassing GPU drivers and hardware acceleration that can be problematic in virtualized or RDP environments.
    

2. Chromium flag: --disable-software-rasterizer

   Purpose: Prevents Chromium from falling back to the software rasterizer, such as SwiftShader, when GPU acceleration is unavailable.

   Outcome: Stops Chromium from using software-based 3D and OpenGL emulation, avoiding reliance on complex graphics libraries even in CPU-rendered mode.

 
A complete list of chromium flags and their purpose can be found here: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/