Plex Media Server Crash with Hardware Acceleration Enabled

[jebrossard]

PMS as a service

The explanation you are looking for is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/design/dn653293(v=vs.85) tl:dr Services run in session 0. Session 0 does not have access to the video driver so hardware acceleration is unavailable to PMS as a service. AlwaysUp can be setup to avoid running Plex in Session 0. Run Any Application as a Windows Service at Boot | AlwaysUp https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/Apps/RunPlexMediaServerAsAService.html T…