Bug 164350 - The app is slow due to lack of graphics acceleration
Summary: The app is slow due to lack of graphics acceleration
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.3.2 release
Hardware: ARM macOS (All)
: medium normal
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Blocks: MacOS-Performance
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Reported: 2024-12-16 23:48 UTC by Ilya
Modified: 2025-01-03 19:10 UTC (History)
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Description Ilya 2024-12-16 23:48:02 UTC
Description:
The problem of lack of graphic acceleration in the application persists from version to version.
Attempts to enable it in the settings do not produce results!

Actual Results:

Graphic acceleration not working

Expected Results:
Ability to use the GPU in the application


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Nothing
Comment 1 BogdanB 2024-12-23 02:33:53 UTC
Ilya, let's keep the bug in Unconfirmed status until someone else can confirm it.
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2025-01-03 18:01:09 UTC
Isn't this linked to bug 146842 ?

I can confirm that attempting to activate the option in settings has no permanent effect - on restart, it is once again unset.

Version: 24.8.3.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 15.2; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Patrick (volunteer) 2025-01-03 19:10:41 UTC
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #2)
> Isn't this linked to bug 146842 ?
> 
> I can confirm that attempting to activate the option in settings has no
> permanent effect - on restart, it is once again unset.

As a macOS developer here, I have never figured out what code is behind that Graphics Acceleration checkbox. I assumed it is some Windows or Linux APIs that aren't available on macOS (OpenGL perhaps?)

Currently, the way to enable use of the GPU is by enabling Skia/Metal (Metal is Apple's current GPU API).

To enable Skia/Metal, check the "Use Skia for all rendering" checkbox and uncheck the "Force Skia software rendering" checkbox.