How to Enable Hardware Acceleration in Windows 10

Adam Murchison, 04 April 2018

For whatever reason you may need to enable hardware acceleration, in my case I needed to run an Android emulator within Visual Studio.

Simply access your BIOS (Settings -> Update and Security -> Recovery. Under the Advanced Startup section press ‘Restart Now’ and your pc will restart.

 
The above screen should appear, press Troubleshoot -> Advanced Options -> UEFI Firmware Settings -> Restart.

You will be presented with the BIOS UI, navigate to the Configuration section shown in the below image.

Simply check that Virtualization Technology e.g. (‘Intel Virtual Technology’ or ‘AMD-V virtualization’) is enabled. Next go to the final section ‘Exit’ as shown below and press ‘Exit Saving Changes’. 

As easy as that, now you have hardware acceleration enabled.