GPU-Acceleration on Windows
It would be brilliant to have this as an option especially since more and more people are using high DPI/4K displays and the CPU is not capable of allowing for smooth zooming/scrolling/panning in most cases. It's working perfectly fine with Photoshop and rather good with Illustrator so I can't see why this shouldn't be possible with InDesign as well.
On my 4K Dell XPS 15 it's quite a pain to scroll through the document or zoom in and out, laggy as hell although this is a very poweful machine!
K. B.
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GPU Acceleration on Windows is available with the latest InDesign 2025(v20.4.0.052). Please update to the latest InDesign via the CCD app to get this feature.
The minimum system requirements for using GPU Acceleration on
- Windows are: Monitor with a display resolution greater than 2K
- GPU card with at least 1GB vRAM.
Note on GPU Acceleration: High-resolution monitors are becoming the standard. With the high monitor resolutions, it is getting difficult for the CPU to handle the rendering. This is where the GPU comes into play. Rendering on high-density displays is best handled by the GPU. GPU acceleration makes the rendering of the documents faster while zooming, scrolling, and panning. The enhanced performance from using the GPU in InDesign powers features like Animated Zoom, which make zoom actions smooth and animated.
Based on our internal tests, we found that GPU acceleration provides better performance when the monitor's display resolution is greater than 2K and the GPU has at least 1GB vRAM. Hence, these have been set as the minimum system requirements.
You can read more about the GPU feature here:
- https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/system-requirements.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/optimize-indesign-performance.html
For any issue related to GPU Acceleration on Windows, please provide below information:
- Display adapters in Device Manager (Ensure that the display cable is connected to the GPU port on machines with dual display ports for proper rendering)
- Display settings (To access the GPU feature on Windows, the monitor should have a resolution above 2K.)
- Share the IDSniffer file available at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version 20.0\en_US\Caches\GPULog\IDSniffer
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Adobe InDesign team
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keith
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+1 Billion
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MN
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Please add GPU acceleration for WIndows 10; we've just switched to Windows and I've got an NVidia GTX 1060 waiting to be used in InDesign!
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David
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Considering you have to pay the same money for CC on macOS and Windows it is really not a professional thing to have GPU support for the one and not have it for the other.
Is there at least a good reason for that? Is Adobe working on including it in Windows?
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Wim V
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+1
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RV Editorial
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Please, Adobe, develop GPU acceleration in Windows urgently!
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Dan
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Please add this for Windows!
We have a new Dell 4K Windows workstation for InDesign work, and it copes OK using the CPU for graphical intensive tasks, although a bit stuttery when quickly scrolling pages. But it would be fantastic to allow these tasks to be offloaded to its more than capable Radeon RX 580 8GB GPU. -
Anonymous
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Please
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TN
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Add me to the list
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Jarrod Mayes
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Please consider adding Windows support for the GPU-Acceleration feature. It's available in both Photoshop and Illustrator and works great, so why not make it available for Indesign as well? Mac OS users have had it for more than a year now.
It's a pretty jarring workflow to come from Illustrator with smooth scrolling and enhanced animated zoom to Indesign's jittery scroll and old school zoom.
Just something to consider.
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P.S.
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yes, please
why on mac yes and on windows not? -
Ben
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Yes please!
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Jojakim
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Indeed!
And it would be also great if gpu can be used for pdf exports. Long graphic heavy documents can still be such drag to export, even on the heaviest workstations.