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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Savanah
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I didn't know this wasn't available on Windows until I started working from home. Mac has a nice refined zoom tool for all Adobe software and Windows has it for every Adobe program EXCEPT InDesign. Why is that? The zoom tool in InDesign is currently clunky and annoying.
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Josh
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This is becoming more and more necessary as the files we use are increasing in resolution. Some of my layouts that include large vectors or big images are almost impossible to navigate, while my powerful GPU sits by doing nothing! Unacceptable.
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Nick
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It frustrates me that Adobe can roll out a UI refresh to make CC look like macOS Big Sur within days of the announcement, but for years we've had buggy inconsistent scaling and GPU performance on Windows. I can't think of any InDesign features added since CS6 that I couldn't live without. GPU acceleration is the SINGLE feature that would transform the experience to match that of the £49 Affinity Publisher.
I hope this will change but with the development needed for ARM based macs, I suspect we'll be waiting a long time for any love on Windows. Prove me wrong Adobe, please.
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Connor Forsyth
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Any updates @Adobe?
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keppn
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Indesigns Performance is really not acceptable anymore, especially when comparing to other software.
I'm sitting here on a new maxed-out Threadripper Win10-machine; it's absolutely awesome what this machine can do in, for example, Cinema4D+Redshift, zBrush and other highly demanding software.
Then I switch to Indesign and man... it's just like 1998 again. Adobe, please! It's just 2D! Make it liquid butter!
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The Dude
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Totally agree - working with a high-end PC in InDesign is slower than working on an old Macbook... Please, please make GPU acceleration available for Windows / Nivida GPUS.
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Anonymous
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This really needs sorting.
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Joel Alfaro
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It has been years since this request. This is mind boggling.
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Jimmy Le
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I would love for this to be available on Windows. I'm a frequent user of InDesign but am really wanting to move away from MacOS. The lack of GPU Acceleration for InDesign on Windows is shocking, and also happens to be a point of hesitance in moving away from my MacBook at the moment.
It really undermines the purchase of a new Windows machine with a powerful GPU if it can't be utilized by one of the programs I would be using most.
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Anonymous
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No response from Adobe? Why is this not available?
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frazzlesnap
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Oh, I use a 2018 era Ryzen Threadripper 2950X with 128GB RAM, 3 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB drives (Windows, Apps, Swap), 4 850 Pros in RAID 10 for file storage, dual RTX2080s and a 1024x768 14" monochrome crt. Wait. That can't be right. InDesign seems to think I should be using a 1024x768 monochrome crt. So much for dual 4k monitors. At least Photoshop and Illustrator know what century my hardware is from. Sorry for posting again so soon, but I am incredibly frustrated, Adobe. When I go to work and see how InDesign operates on an iMac from 2015 it makes me want to cry.
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frazzlesnap
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It's very heartening to see all the attention that Adobe has spent on this issue. Clearly, they value their customers' feedback and needs. There are so many positive and reassuring posts from Adobe representatives, showing that they plan on implementing GPU acceleration in Windows within the time frame of the next InDesign CC update. I am very happy that I have been a loyal Adobe customer since 1998. They are a shining example of how a creative software company should operate. There is no reason for me to look elsewhere...
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Kasper
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I thought I was the only one with this issue, had to google it. I can't believe this isn't supported on Windows. Why hasn't adobe addressed this in any way?!
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Rudolf
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Same case here... This is the last layout I do using InDesign... Switching to Affinity Publisher.
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Nick
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Aside from MathML, this is now the top-ranking request for InDesign without a response from Adobe. Please can we have this at least acknowledged?
As paying subscribers we were told that Creative Cloud would accelerate the development and innovation of our software tools... We're not even asking for that, just basic performance to bring the software to the level macOS users experience, or Windows users of the £49 one-off Afininty Publisher even. Come on Adobe.
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TMH
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May we please have an engineer or someone from Adobe at least give us an idea of where this feature is in the development pipeline?
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bkmoto
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Yes please! What is the real reason behind Adobe not doing this for windows? Adobe, please please can we have this feature already?
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Justin Eshelman
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I would love GPU acceleration on Windows! It's sad that my 7 year old MacBook runs inDesign faster, graphically, than my high performance PC. You'd think Adobe would implement this, since they already have support in Premiere and After effects.
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Paul Kundt
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As a PC and MacBook pro user I couldn't agree more on this. Last time when I was trying to make a portfolio about 20 pages only. My Mac would run it all very smoothly but once I swapped to my PC which has better performance in nearly every component, it lagged out and was a far worse experience compared to my mac. Atleast I still have a mac and can swap if it is required. But people who don't have it canno choose.... But atleast we all pay the subscribtion.!
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Nick
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