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Hi all,

made an account here, so I can post for this exact reason. 7700X, 4070 Ti, Win 11, today morning nothing helping, blank screen as you all said.

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Thereā€™s a user via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/48236#issuecomment-3162930841 that mentioned switching brave://flags/#use-angle back to Default resolved the issue re: Brave rendering with HWA enabled.

Can the folks that are affected check to see what the value is? If itā€™s something other than Default, does switching to Default help/fix the issue?

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A fresh profile does fix the issue. Obviously this is not ideal as I would like to keep all my settings and such. The ā€œ#use-angleā€ flag was already set to default for me.

Edit: Correction, the Flag was only set to default on the fresh profile. On my main profile it was set to OpenGL. Changing this to Default has fixed the issue on my main profile. Thank you for your help!

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This seems to fix the issue

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I havenā€™t tried anything with the profiles.

Switching the flag brave://flags/#use-angle to Default fixed the issue (was this flag changed with the update? I do not recall setting it manually, but it is possible that I did it some time ago and forgot about it).

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I used the -disable-gpu command, as suggested elsewhere to fix my problem.

I would note that, like others, I was unable to normally uninstall Brave to try a clean install. I was able to force an uninstall using a third party app and closing the Brave Window, but obviously that didnā€™t resolve the problem.

It appears to me that this might be a problem with the latest Brave and the latest NVidia drivers, or maybe specifically with the 5070Ti.

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We didnā€™t change anything re: switching brave://flags/#use-angle. If you install 1.81.x and check brave://flags/#use-angle, itā€™s set as Default. Hence why new profiles work and most users mentioned Nightly was working. Itā€™s most likely a newer install. Weā€™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.

Weā€™ve received enough confirmations that brave://flags/#use-angle fixes the issue. If youā€™re affected, please try the following:

  • launch Brave using ā€“ disable-gpu
  • paste brave://flags/#use-angle into the URL bar and ensure itā€™s set as Default
  • relaunch Brave without using ā€“disable-gpu

Brave should start rendering without any issues without the need of ā€“disable-gpu.

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I can confirm this works however this is a temporary solution for me. When I use any other angle backend besides OpenGL (which is currently not an option) I get screen tearing while scrolling a web page. This is not a Brave specific problem -it happens with any chromium based browsers (I use an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU).

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Hey, Iā€™m trying to uninstall with the disable GPU but that just doesnā€™t work. It keeps opening a black brave window. (Iā€™m just tryna get some work done man..)

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Try the following which should fix your issue:

  • launch Brave with --disable-gpu
  • paste brave://flags/#use-angle into the URL bar and change it to Default. Iā€™m assuming itā€™s set as OpenGL
  • re-launch Brave without --disable-gpu and Brave should work/render correctly now

That should fix the issue youā€™re experiencing.

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oh wow this brave://flags/#use-angle fixed it thank you but im using d3d11 because i have problem in screen tearing i cant put it in default but it works lol i can now use hardware acceleration

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-ā€“disable-features=RemoveRedirectionBitmap

Brave has #brave-workaround-new-window-flash, so Brave might want to disable RemoveRedirectionBitmap by default.

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Thank you that fixed it somewhat. It was indeed on OpenGL. However I do notice that scrolling is a little slower on some websites like youtube etc. Any fix for that?

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This fixed it for me as well. Thanks :+1:

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Great that fixed it, but now all my saved passwords are goneā€¦

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I am having the same issue with RTX 3080 laptop, latest drivers, (just updated to fix).

Did not fix it, so canā€™t do the other steps. Any ETA for the HF?, or still in the complete dark.

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I also needed to create an account just for this issue alone, ā€“disable-gpu or ā€”disable-gpu does not fixā€¦ I can confirm that I have been running on OpenGL but like others on this post, itā€™s just a screen tearing issue I get with hardware acceleration (it also occurs on discord but my fix with screentearing on discord was just to simply disable hardware acceleration), on Brave turning off hardware acceleration makes the browser unbearable and thatā€™s not a Brave problem or anything, so Iā€™ve just enabled OpenGL and itā€™s been working great ever since (although I still get duplicating tabs when alt-tabbing in full screen but thatā€™s an issue that I can just handle)

Besides that, I canā€™t access the browser at all, and Iā€™ve had brave beta installed for a long while now so thankfully opening this browser instantly worked (no screen tearing, no duplicating tabs, works like a charm and I have no idea why this was an issue in the stable release of brave)

My GPU is an RTX 2070 max-q design, a laptop GPU, and I have been running the latest nvidia drivers ever since the latest ones released.

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You fixed it by enabling OpenGL? How do i do that without being able to see the Brave UI? Like, what startup option.

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I have the same problem. Can confirm that setting brave://flags/#use-angle to Default fixes the issue. However I would love to use OpenGL because of screentearing.

Hope you guys find a fix for this :+1:

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@northorious thanks for confirming that setting it to default resolved for you.

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