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We didn’t change anything re: switching brave://flags/#use-angle. If you install 1.81.x and check brave://flags/#use-angle, it’s set as Default. Hence why new profiles work and most users mentioned Nightly was working. It’s most likely a newer install. We’ll look into why it was changed for some users but this could have happened a long time ago. Chromium might have switched to OpenGL and with C139, it ended up bugging out.

We’ve received enough confirmations that brave://flags/#use-angle fixes the issue. If you’re affected, please try the following:

  • launch Brave using – disable-gpu
  • paste brave://flags/#use-angle into the URL bar and ensure it’s set as Default
  • relaunch Brave without using –disable-gpu

Brave should start rendering without any issues without the need of –disable-gpu.

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