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by sterlind 553 days ago
Do you have a GPU?
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zamadatix 553 days ago
More than that, does chrome://gpu/ show "WebGPU: Hardware accelerated" (i.e. not only do you have a GPU but is Chrome finding it usable for WebGPU).
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Eduard 553 days ago
Graphics Feature Status

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* Canvas: Hardware accelerated

* Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled

* Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled

* Compositing: Hardware accelerated

* Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled

* OpenGL: Enabled

* Rasterization: Hardware accelerated

* Raw Draw: Disabled

* Skia Graphite: Disabled

* Video Decode: Hardware accelerated

* Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled

* Vulkan: Disabled

* WebGL: Hardware accelerated

* WebGL2: Hardware accelerated

* WebGPU: Disabled

* WebNN: Disabled

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zamadatix 553 days ago
That "WebGPU: Disabled" can be anything from "Chrome considers the driver too buggy to enable WebGPU on by default for users" to "Chrome doesn't support that GPU/OS/Driver combo for WebGPU at all". You can try force enabling some various GPU flags in chrome://flags/ but whether that's successful will depend on the particular setup.

Until that switches from "Disabled", no WebGPU content or demos will load in your Chrome instance.

You can see overall user support https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu. Particularly Safari on iOS/macOS and most browsers on Linux are still yet to start rolling out support by default.

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reaperducer 553 days ago
Do you have a GPU?

If he didn't, he would get the message "This demo requires the modern WebGPU graphics API to run. Seems like your browser does not support it."

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zamadatix 553 days ago
You don't need a dedicated graphics processing unit to display video from a computer! Back before GPUs were even a thing the framebuffer would just be a region of memory and the video controller would turn that into a signal. Nowadays the latter is assumed to be integrated with the GPU because "who wouldn't need dedicated graphics processing in a desktop"?
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stronglikedan 553 days ago
I don't have a GPU and it runs fine for me with no errors or messages.
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