HDX - Certain Sets of Applications (Example: Office 2013) are Not Using the GPU

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Article ID: CTX202839

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Description

Some applications are able to use the vGPU/GPU (indicating the VM is configured correctly), maybe Chrome, WebGL benchmarks, however some such as Office 2010 do not.

Resolution

Debugging

 


Problem Cause

A user/group (for ICA/RDP) policy disabling Hardware acceleration for Office 2010/2013. This is often done in deployments where no GPU is present in the XA VMs. 

Issue/Introduction

This KB explains a situation where some applications, such as Microsoft Office 2010/2013, do not use the configured GPU/vGPU in a Citrix HDX environment, even though other applications (for example, Chrome or WebGL applications) successfully utilize GPU acceleration.