Microsoft Photos app for Windows 10 updated with hardware acceleration support

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Microsoft has updated the Photos app for Windows 10 to version 2018.18071.15310.0 .

The update brings support for using your GPU when encoding video, which should speed things up nicely.

The full changelog reads:

  • Hardware Acceleration – There is a new entry in the Photo app settings that allows you to use video encoding with hardware acceleration.
  • Bug fixes and various improvements.

The updated app can be found in the Store here.

[appbox windowsstore 9wzdncrfjbh4]

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