Always rasterize content to be printed using a software rasterizer

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT

Registry

HKLM Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers

Value name: ForceSoftwareRasterization

Enabled: ForceSoftwareRasterization = 1

Disabled: ForceSoftwareRasterization = 0

Description

Determines whether the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) is forced to use a software rasterizer instead of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to rasterize pages. This setting may improve the performance of the XPS Rasterization Service or the XPS-to-GDI conversion (XGC) on machines that have a relatively powerful CPU as compared to the machine’s GPU.