diff --git a/src/examples/alpha-orbitals/index.ts b/src/examples/alpha-orbitals/index.ts
index 645ab2e4d60a47633fa10f724eb17d39de10f07e..231c54cbf6bddf6ebc1a962621a4a03de04a2304 100644
--- a/src/examples/alpha-orbitals/index.ts
+++ b/src/examples/alpha-orbitals/index.ts
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ export class AlphaOrbitalsExample {
             kind,
             relativeIsovalue: this.state.value.isoValue,
             pickable: false,
-            xrayShaded: true
+            xrayShaded: true,
+            tryUseGpu: false
         };
     }
 
diff --git a/src/extensions/alpha-orbitals/transforms.ts b/src/extensions/alpha-orbitals/transforms.ts
index 4ce4c41fa889f6e8d948b480407ab274078b7ea2..ef39249f01d51df26a9ac2150b5869dddc54516f 100644
--- a/src/extensions/alpha-orbitals/transforms.ts
+++ b/src/extensions/alpha-orbitals/transforms.ts
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ export const CreateOrbitalRepresentation3D = PluginStateTransform.BuiltIn({
         color: PD.Color(ColorNames.blue),
         alpha: PD.Numeric(1, { min: 0, max: 1, step: 0.01 }),
         xrayShaded: PD.Boolean(false),
-        pickable: PD.Boolean(true)
+        pickable: PD.Boolean(true),
+        tryUseGpu: PD.Boolean(true)
     }
 })({
     canAutoUpdate() {
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ function volumeParams(plugin: PluginContext, volume: PluginStateObject.Volume.Da
         colorParams: { value: params.color }
     } : {
         type: 'isosurface',
-        typeParams: { isoValue: { kind: 'absolute', absoluteValue: (value ?? 1000) * params.relativeIsovalue }, alpha: params.alpha, xrayShaded: params.xrayShaded },
+        typeParams: { isoValue: { kind: 'absolute', absoluteValue: (value ?? 1000) * params.relativeIsovalue }, alpha: params.alpha, xrayShaded: params.xrayShaded, tryUseGpu: params.tryUseGpu },
         color: 'uniform',
         colorParams: { value: params.color }
     });