diff --git a/templates/python-crawlee-playwright/src/main.py b/templates/python-crawlee-playwright/src/main.py
index 5fec2e42..eb2db84c 100644
--- a/templates/python-crawlee-playwright/src/main.py
+++ b/templates/python-crawlee-playwright/src/main.py
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ async def main() -> None:
             # Limit the crawl to max requests. Remove or increase it for crawling all links.
             max_requests_per_crawl=50,
             headless=True,
+            browser_options={
+                'args': ['--disable-gpu'],
+            }
         )
 
         # Define a request handler, which will be called for every request.
diff --git a/templates/python-playwright/src/main.py b/templates/python-playwright/src/main.py
index 17cdc092..c8fa8621 100644
--- a/templates/python-playwright/src/main.py
+++ b/templates/python-playwright/src/main.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ async def main() -> None:
         # Launch Playwright and open a new browser context.
         async with async_playwright() as playwright:
             # Configure the browser to launch in headless mode as per Actor configuration.
-            browser = await playwright.chromium.launch(headless=Actor.config.headless)
+            browser = await playwright.chromium.launch(headless=Actor.config.headless, args=['--disable-gpu'])
             context = await browser.new_context()
 
             # Process the URLs from the request queue.