Stop Chrome from switching to dedicated GPU

I was having an issue with gfxCardStatus not being able to switch to the Integrated Intel GPU because of a Google Chrome Helper task. My mid-2010 Macbook Pro has a bad discrete GPU so of course that is pretty inconvenient. This worked for me:

Go to chrome://settings and set the Use hardware acceleration when available option to off:

Put this in the omnibar to find this setting easily:

chrome://settings/?search=hardware

I found this to work for me chrome Settings > Advanced > System > uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"

This might help you :

Type about: flags in the address bar and hit Enter button. Now locate the following three options and disable them.

1. GPU accelerated compositing

2. GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D

3. Web page Prerendering