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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!

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FIXED  ·  AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded  · 

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

  1. Windows are: Monitor with a display resolution greater than 2K
  2. 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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  • Stefan Krapf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please Adobe, how is it that for several years this problem has only been implemented for the Mac and not on Windows? This is really a slap in the face. No wonder they say that the Mac is better for graphic designers if Adobe doesn't change such a situation!
    I'm patiently and desperately waiting for this feature to finally be built into the Windows version, and I get annoyed every time I work in InDesign when the graphics build up is so slow.

  • Alisdair Gray commented  ·   ·  Report

    It boggles my mind why this hasn't been implemented yet... Industry standard?

  • Lincoln commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes please, I have a RTX 3090 that would be a little useful for this. It's sitting there idle while using inDesign....

    Please fix Adobe! =]

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  • Robin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi @Abhinav Kaushik, you mentioned this was in backlog. Do you perhaps have a date for me? As I'm not really that familiar with the term backlog. Does this mean we could expect the feature in 2 months, 6 months? Or maybe even next week?

    Would love to hear from you!

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  • Tomaz Kavcic commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would be also interested to know about ETA for this implementation? It's something Photoshop and Illustrator have integrated for years and it's really an important feature which Indesign should have as well. For advanced designers who use Indesign on daily basis, this feature is marginal.

    I'm also wondering, is there a reason PS and AI on Windows have this for years, while ID still doesn't have this?

  • Nick commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi @abhinav, thanks for getting this added to the backlog. Great to see progress! How long are we talking for implementation... will it be months or years?

  • Robin commented  ·   ·  Report

    We really need this feature! This is unworkable right now. We are all working on Windows to reduce costs to our clients and to have maximum flexibility installing our programs and running servers.

    Licences are expensive enough as they are.. Please make this happen to speed up my workflow a ton! :)

  • Tieu Bao Lai commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would making working much better if this was supported this feature request

  • Robin commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would really love love love this too!

  • Nick commented  ·   ·  Report

    Good to see this is FINALLY in the backlog. I moved back to a Mac because of this. Let's hope it's not another 4 years until this gets some development time.

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