Enable or disable Virtualized GPU sharing for Windows Sandbox

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A GPU supports thousands of calculating cores to procedure workloads in parallel. It does this chore in an efficient mode. Windows Sandbox surround makes it possible to enable or disable Virtualized GPU sharing. Here'due south how information technology'southward washed!

Enable or disable Virtualized GPU sharing for Windows Sandbox

As you know, any software or application yous choose to install in Windows Sandbox remains simply in that surround and cannot affect your host. Also, in one case Windows Sandbox is airtight, all the programs are deleted automatically. To enable or disable vGPU Sharing for Windows Sandbox do the following,

Open the Registry Editor.
Navigate to the Windows Sandbox key
Create a new 32-chip DWORD value AllowVGPU
To enable the vGPU sharing for Windows Sandbox gear up the value to 1.
To disable the vGPU sharing feature, delete the value.

If vGPU is disabled, the sandbox volition utilise the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP).

Using Registry Editor

Press Win+R in combination to open the 'Run' dialog box.

Type 'regedit' in the empty field of the box and press 'Enter'.

When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following path address –

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Sandbox.

If you practise not find a key with such a name and so, create one.

Now, create a new 32-scrap DWORD value 'AllowVGPU'. Remember here that even if you lot are running 64-fleck Windows, yous still need to apply a 32-bit DWORD as the value type.

Supported values

Enable – Enables vGPU back up in the sandbox.
Disable – Disables vGPU support in the sandbox. If this value is ready, the sandbox will use software rendering, which may exist slower than the virtualized GPU.
Default – This is the default value for vGPU support. Currently, this means vGPU is disabled.

In one case the cardinal is created, set its value to one.

The action when confirmed volition enable the vGPU sharing for Windows Sandbox.

To disable it, simply delete the value. This volition disable the vGPU sharing feature.

When done, shut the Registry Editor and exit. Restart your PC to allow the changes to take outcome.

Read: How to enable or disable Clipboard Sharing with Windows Sandbox.

Using Group Policy Editor

Open up Group Policy Editor and navigate to the following path address –

Figurer Configuration\Authoritative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Sandbox.

Switch to the right-pane and look for the policy setting 'Allow vGPU sharing for Windows Sandbox'.

Now, to enable vGPU sharing for Windows Sandbox fix the policy to 'Enabled'.

That's all there is to it!

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