topic Re: How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics? in Desktop (Linux)

How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics?

rotarium — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:29:21 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

Operating System

Arch Linux

My Question or Issue

How can I disable hardware acceleration of graphics? I use spotify for listening to music and I don't want it to hog GPU resources. Lately I have noticed segfaults in my GPU driver (libnvidia-glcore.so.430.26) and I think they correlated with some horrible GPU freezes I had. I want to rule out spotify by disabling hardware acceleration, maybe there is a command line flag?

Thank you

Re: How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics?

chtamina — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:13:45 GMT

same here

Re: How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics?

Cabbajj — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:20:21 GMT

I'm having the same issue. Other systems allow disabling through settings or the supermenu but I can't find the setting anywhere in spotify.

In my case, hardware acceleration is causing text rendering issues.

Re: How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics?

Cabbajj — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:26:07 GMT

you can run spotify with

spotify --disable-gpu

and that will do the trick

Re: How can I disable hardware acceleration for graphics?

LosD — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:15:28 GMT

Any way to make it stick?