WebGL on Chrome
Enable hardware acceleration :
- browse to ***chrome://settings/advanced
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scroll to the bottom and look for Use hardware acceleration when available
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make sure Use hardware acceleration when available is checked ✓
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if it tells you to then click the relaunch button
Check if webGL is enabled in Chrome
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Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar chrome://gpu
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Look for the WebGL item in the Graphics Feature Status list
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The status will be one of the following:
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Hardware accelerated — WebGL is enabled and hardware-accelerated (running on the graphics card).
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Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable — WebGL is enabled, but running in software.
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Unavailable — WebGL is not available in hardware or software.
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You are looking for the status to be #1 from the above list i.e. Hardware accelerated
WebGL on FireFox
Enable WebGL
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Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar
about:config -
you will be asked to accept a scary warning, I am positive this will be ok unless you start going godzilla or the hulk on unrelated settings 🙂 so.. dont do that.
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Search for
webgl.disabled -
make sure that its value is set to
false
Check WebGL status on FireFox browser
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Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar about:support
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Inspect the WebGL Renderer row in the Graphics table
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The status can be either of two things
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the name of a graphics card manufacturer, model and driver i.e. Google Inc. — ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
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Something along the lines of BLocked due to version or Blocked due to unresolved issues.
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Obviously you want #1 as the result i.e. a working webgl.
