Chrome Flags Reference

Chrome command line switches and startup flags for automation, headless mode, and debugging.

--use-vulkan

What does --use-vulkan do?

Enable Vulkan support and select Vulkan implementation, must also have ENABLE_VULKAN defined. This only initializes Vulkan, the flag --enable-features=Vulkan must also be used to select Vulkan for compositing and rasterization.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --use-vulkan using CLI

chrome --use-vulkan

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --use-vulkan using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--use-vulkan']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --use-vulkan using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--use-vulkan']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --use-vulkan using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--use-vulkan')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)