Policy

Always rasterize content to be printed using a software rasterizer

Determines whether the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) is forced to use a software rasterizer instead of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to rasterize pages. This setting may improve the performance of the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) on machines that have a relatively powerful CPU as compared to the machine’s GPU.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Printers
Policy ID 747fe74cc246
Internal name ForceSoftwareRasterization

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\ForceSoftwareRasterization (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\ForceSoftwareRasterization (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Determines whether the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) is forced to use a software rasterizer instead of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to rasterize pages. This setting may improve the performance of the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) on machines that have a relatively powerful CPU as compared to the machine’s GPU.

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