You can connect your displays to any display adapter available. Make sure your operating system is Microsoft ® Windows ® 10 (build 1809), Windows ® Server 2016, or later versions. Use the System Monitor to check the current XProtect Smart Client decoding performance. If the status is Off, continue to examine your computer so you can enable hardware acceleration, if possible and make sure that all hardware acceleration resources are utilized. The video diagnostics overlay status for Hardware acceleration can be: Intel, NVIDIA or Off. To make the current status of the stream, including the GPU resource used for hardware acceleration visible, select Level 2.There are two settings for hardware acceleration: Auto and Off.Go to Settings > Advanced > Hardware acceleration.Milestone does not recommend the use of Scalable Link Interface (SLI) configuration of your NVIDIA display adapters. XProtect Smart Client supports hardware accelerated decoding using Intel ® and NVIDIA ® GPUs.
Typically measured in FPS (Frames Per second). This is particularly useful when you view multiple video streams with high frame rate A measure indicating the amount of information contained in motion video. Hardware acceleration improves the decoding capability and performance of the computer running XProtect Smart Client. Enabling hardware acceleration Hardware acceleration (explained)
