ArcGIS Hardware Acceleration

[burninatortech4]

What does ArcGIS mean when it prompts a user to enable hardware acceleration? Does this include dGPU acceleration? How does ArcGIS utilize compute resources? More cores better or faster cores? RAM? SSD?

 

[Ketchup]

It is referring to using your video card for graphics, nothing more. Without enabling it, the program will just use the CPU. I don't know enough about that program to give you much more detail.

Does it not let you enable hardware acceleration, or are you you just curios as to what all that encompasses?

 

[Xeon_Addict]

Burninatortech4,

I am GIS Analyst and long time ArcMap user.

Taken from ESRI's website:

"A big part of our efforts to improve the display performance of ArcMap is the addition of hardware accelerated drawing for Basemap Layers and raster layers accelerated with the Image Analysis toolbar. By using your graphics card’s hardware instead of your computer’s CPU, we have improved the smoothness and responsiveness of panning and zooming of supported layers in ArcMap."

You can read more about it here:
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2...for-hardware-acceleration-and-remote-desktop/

Like ketchup79 said, basically takes some of the load off the CPU.

 

[burninatortech4]

It is referring to using your video card for graphics, nothing more. Without enabling it, the program will just use the CPU. I don't know enough about that program to give you much more detail.



Does it not let you enable hardware acceleration, or are you you just curios as to what all that encompasses?

I was curious what it involved. Thank you for the responses guys.