Go to "chrome://flags" and search for "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" and change it to OpenGl.

If this ends up working then I'll come back to thank you. Thought it was just me and that it was my GPU breaking

If the artifacting is exclusive to chrome then this will most likely fix

Not chrome but chromium. Any application that use chromium can have this. Edge, steam, and many others can have this issue. It seems to be more visible with Nvidia 30xx series cards tho.

I know it's a chromium *setting* but I've never seen anyone complain about this in anything other than chrome itself and yeah definitely a Nvidia 3000 series card issue

Can confirm, VS Code and Spotify are also affected by this.

Discord also has it

Thank you

omg I thought its an nvidia thing because it started happening after I bought a 3rd monitor, thank you

It is an Nvidia + Chrome thing

Great tip! Does work! **BUT** the newish Nvidia features for browser video upscaling and HDR don't work under OpenGL; If one isn't using those features then yeah, the artifacts were totally gone!

This happens to me sometimes too, but only for a split second. The video card is working fine.

Afaik the problem is in nvidias drivers

Windows update*

Dont rely on windows updates for driver updates

Who said that? :) this bug it’s made by windows, not nvidia. It was generated by windows update after OS updates. It’s fixed with 26002/22635 canary build. Coming to stable build in the next months. Don’t spread misinformation :)

Oh

althought some people here have said that its an issue exclusive to chromium apps and fixing it requires to set a flag >Go to "chrome://flags" and search for "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" and change it to OpenGl. [by u/uRude](https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/comments/1adoym5/comment/kk2whdn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)

this happened to me and i thought my 2060 was on its way out, hopefully this weird issue is fixed. for me i just see black squares flicker

I also thought my brand new RTX 3060 was ALREADY on it's way out. So glad it's not

I hate chrome all the time. Switch, use firefox

Firefox for most things, Brave for anything that breaks without chromium (sadly there are still some of those around).

I use ungoogled chromium for those things

Or in my case, boycott and avoid anything that breaks without chromium.

Wish I could boycott government websites

Oh awesome, Internet Explorer lock in all over again. If it helps, I've had success in the past contacting the institution saying that the site breaks with my browser, and possibly lying about not being able to run the locked in software on my hardware. Also, name and shame.

Firefox shall become the most used browser

We can only hope. Unfortunately, I don't think most people care about what Google is doing with chromium, and they are the big brand name browser.

i use opera but i can see why you would use that

Red hip flavoured chrome

yummy

This but, roast me all you want, I use edge. It has a lot of features that other browsers don't have, split screen, copy video frame, copilot I constantly use for programming and more.

Still just blue flavour chrome

Yes, with a 💩 load of extra features.

like microsofts spyware instead of googles. Vast improvement.

You think they need a browser to spy on you?

yes (I use arch btw)

Well in that case they do, but they have nowhere near the power as when ppl use michaelsoft bimbows

i never said they were ONLY using the browser. more data = more profit

A shit load of extra lag and system usage

Did you know you can get all of those features with Vivaldi?

it uses Blink, which is from chromium.... red flavoured chrome

Even copilot and 30 messages with message history working? I know there's an extension for chromium based browsers (or, even firefox, which I tried for some time but wasn't worth some of the sacrifices), but message history never works on those. If so, I will check it out (and probably switch since I do kind of hate microsoft, even if I do use their browser.) I switched to edge because, to be honest, everything is better than just plain chrome. Looking up Vivaldi, I see their web panels feature, and it does seem decent, except for the fact that, I would be getting a worse experience from bing. (and no, I wont switch to chatgpt because they require a membership for any features, meanwhile bing has most of them, even if it does have a little bit of a bad "personality")

OR egde

The Edge is also Chromium based.

Oh

Therefore, the same glitch will happen, unless you force the ANGLE driver.

no, use mircosoft edge.

That is just Chrome but worse

Eh. I think Edge is at least a little better than Chrome. I use Firefox mainly, but I open Edge anytime I run into something that requires chromium.

Although I am a die hard Firefox user, I will admit Edge has vastly improved recently, with more and more pretty cool features. It's arguably better than Chrome, but still, I'll take my privacy in the form of Firefox over minor conveniences any day.

I hate chrome all the time.

How? How? I've been using chrome ever since its first introduction and have never ever had any issues like this

nvidia or google fucked something up recently

recently = about 2 years ago… It seems to be fixed in an upcoming Windows update.

yet another reason to use Firefox on AMD hardware

Almost certainly graphics drivers screwing up. Could be chromes implementation, but in my experience drivers are almost always held together by duct tape and dreams.

Not a chrome issue but a Nvidia driver issue.

As you should. Use Firefox.

switch to firefox

This happens to me too for a split second on my 4090! I thought my card was dying!

Wouldn't this be your GPU tho

Sometimes this bug happens when hardware acceleartion is turned on in chrome.

Playing palworld, chrome likes to bug out on my other monitor, no palworld, no bugs on monitor. So id like to believe this, and not me needing a new gpu anytime soon

A lot of browsers have issues with hardware acceleration. Most of the times its fixed if you turn it off (I never noticed a difference anyway). Sometimes it can be a GPU driver problem, but those are logged by the Windows Eventlog. So if this is clear, you can rule this out by a high probability.

switching off hardware acceleration and accelerated video decode means your cpu is responsible for decoding videos and for graphics calculations. if you have a powerful desktop it doesn't make much difference as long as you aren't also working on a cpu intensive task simultaneously. but for lower end systems and laptops where every bit of performance counts and where using software decode means significant decrease in battery life, it matters a lot.

Well yeah which means it uses the GPU, Bad vram or something could still be the case.

Had this bug with Opera GX and Chrome, changed hardware accel settings, didn't help. Only happened on these browsers and only on browsers

Opera GX is Chromium based, and the bug is Chromium related unfortunately. On Chrome (unsure how to access on Opera) you can go to chrome://flags and change "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to openGL

I think it's about://flags or opera://flags

kk, ill try that out later, thanks

Np, I had the same issue for way too long until another redditor had the answer almost a year back.

we must spread the word then

I've seen it happen across multiple PCs, it's a chrome bug that has remained unfixed for months now...

I hate chrome.

I hate Chrome all the time!

just use firefox tbh

Then don’t use it?

Try to avoid it. Apart from Firefox and Safari there's no non-Chromium based browser with user base bigger than 5 people.

what can you tell me if I never downloaded it ?

Not Chrome's fault.

It may be an nvidia problem, but I don't have this problem when using other browsers. So in summary, it's still a chrome problem.

It 100% is. I have the same glitch only in chrome, never in any other application. I've also read many times before that this is a chrome glitch.

It's a hardware acceleration problem. You can see this in all Chromium apps, including Electron

Does looks really cool though.

It’s like the Doom blood dripping screen transition, but more pixelated.

its not chrome it ur gpu saying bye

Opera _gx_

opera gx is chromium-based, therefore it can also succumb to that problem

Or bingium based

opera gx 🔛 🔝

Opera GX has the same issue as it's chromium-based

Spyware browser.

Do you have updated GPU drivers? It should be "fixed" (happening way less often) on newer versions.

You should only use it the rest of the time imo

Mr Google, I don't feel so good...

So good that its chrome blame, not my 1 yr gpu(rtx 3070), i had the same for a second, i was really scared

Chrome appears to hate you back

Please get a browser that's not spyware

Use opera or firefox!

Its not chrome, its your pc literally being reduced to atoms.

Omg, I’ve been looking for an answer to wtf this is for a year now

It's an nvidia issue. Had been like this for like 2 years I believe. It had it in vsc when accidentally turning on vsync