How does one disable hardware acceleration in wpf?

Question

What is the procedure for disabling hardware acceleration in WPF? What is it exactly? Is it a Windows setting, a Visual Studio setting, or something you alter in the code of

Answer 1

It is a machine-wide registry setting. See Graphics Rendering Registry Settings in the WPF docs for the registry key and other details relating to customizing WPF rendering.

The key listed is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration

The MSDN document is "not available" for .NET 4.5, so this may be a depricated option that only works in 4.0 or below.