How to enable WebGL on a computer browser

WebGL is a hardware acceleration feature of 3D graphics for Internet browsers on computers. Thanks to this feature, the graphic images in the website the user is looking at will become much more beautiful, smoother and sharper. However, many people often overlook this feature or accidentally turn it off without knowing it, which makes the display of images worse, and sometimes even some error conditions.

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And the error "Your graphics card does not seem to support WebGL" is one of the common cases that images cannot be displayed.

The following article of Download.com.vn will help you perform two processes:

• Check WebGL on the computer (see if it is enabled or not?).
• If the browser is not enabled or supports WebGL, what should I do?

Check WebGL on web browser

This method is very simple and does not require users to install software or access complex systems. Just:

• Copy down this address .
• Paste into the address bar of the browser to check the status of WebGL and then Enter.

If the results appear as "Your browser supports WebGL" (or see a spinning prism), it means that your browser has WebGL enabled.

And if shown as below:

This means that WebGL is disabled, turned off, and needs to be restarted.

Turn on WebGL in Chrome browser

Step 1: From the main interface, you click the three dashes icon , select down Settings - Settings .

 

Step 2: Click on Show advanced settings - Show advanced settings ...

Step 3: Scroll down to the bottom, find the System - System section and click Use hardware acceleration mode when available - Use hardware acceleration when available.

Step 4: Return to the main interface of Chrome, enter the keyword " chrome: // gpu " in the address bar and press Enter . A list like the one below appears. Look for the Graphics Feature Status and look for the WebGL in it.

Usually in this section, there will only be 3 corresponding results:

• Hardware accelerated.
• Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable.
• Unavailable.

If the display is not WebGL: Hardware accelerated , you can do one of the following:

Method 1: Open Chrome, type Chrome: // flags in the address bar and then Enter .

• Find the section Override software rendering list .
• Click Enable to enable this feature.
• Restart the browser.

Method 2 : Type " chrome: // flags " in the address bar and then Enter . Then choose to go to WebGL Prototype (you can change the language for the browser to search for this item).

• Toggle off, disable.
• Restart the browser.

Disable WebGL Prototype and select "Rerun now" to save changes

Method 3: Select the right icon Chrome browser from outside the computer screen, in the Properties .

Chrome Properties appears, click Shortcut . In the Target box , add a space at the end of the path and enter -enable-webgl at the end and click OK below.

After this operation also restart the browser to save changes.

Activate WebGL in Firefox

Step 1: Click the left mouse button in the address bar of the browser, type " about: config " into the then Enter . In the list below, you search webgl.disabled (can enter the search box - Search to find faster.

Check and make sure that the value (Value) for this item is False .

Step 2: Continue typing " about: support ", Enter and check the WebGL Renderer section in Graphics .

If it's an NVIDIA graphics card or HD Graphics ... that's okay. If not (maybe "Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues" or "Blocked for your graphics driver version" then we will need to take the next step.

Check out the WebGL Renderer section

Access the three dash icon from the main Firefox interface, select Options .

Click on Advanced / General . Here, tick the " Use hardware acceleration when available checkbox".

No need to restart the browser, you close the options window and enter about: config in the address bar, Enter .

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Find the webgl.force-enabled item and change its value to True .

If this doesn't work, you can:

• Right-click any empty area of ​​the list that appears.
• Select New / Boolean.

Name this item " webgl.enable-prototype-webgl2" then OK .

Finally, convert the value of this newly created item to True .

The article above has just shown you how to check and enable WebGL on computer browsers. Hopefully the article will be helpful and help you handle the errors related to this feature in the use of the web browser.

I wish you successful implementation!