I’ve been running Windows 8 for a while now on my laptop, and ran into a very frustrating problem with Internet Explorer 10. When typing on a webpage, I often found it skipping keystrokes. It seemed to get progressively worse over time, to the point where I found myself having to hit a key 3 times before it would register.
So tonight I set out to figure out what exactly was going on, or how to fix it.
Skimming through the IE settings, I found an option for using software rendering instead of GPU rendering.
I had completely forgotten that IE10 uses the GPU. Off I went to NVidia’s website, downloaded new drivers, and voila! no more typing problem!
If you’re unable to find new drivers and are experiencing missed keystrokes in IE, you may want to check that checkbox in Internet Options – it may just help you out.
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