Zooming the screen with Win + plus is choppy
Magnifier uses GPU acceleration. On a laptop with a weak iGPU and a busy browser around it, zooming visibly costs work.
Try this first
- 1Settings > Accessibility > Magnifier > 'View'. Turn off 'Smooth edges of images and text'. Much cheaper for the GPU.
- 2Lower the zoom step (default 100%) to 25% for less aggressive scaling per scroll.
- 3Close other GPU-heavy apps (browser video, Teams call) when you need to zoom often.
- 4For permanent magnification: use system-level scaling (Settings > Display > Scale 125% or 150%). Free in performance terms.
When to bring us in
Not needed; this is configuration.
See also
- My laptop is suddenly slowThree main suspects: a runaway background process, near-full disk, or a Windows update in progress.
- One specific application is slow for everyoneIf an app is slow for one person: local. For everyone at once: server side or vendor side.
- Opening files from the file server takes minutesOften the server itself is fine and the issue is network routing or stalling DNS resolution.
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