Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?
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Activate graphic acceleration on brave settings
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Play a (or several at the same time) video or a live stream
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Sometimes when loading the video it will crash briefly
Expected result: IT SHOULD RUN WITHOUT CRASHING WHEN USING ACCELERATION
Brave Version( check About Brave):Brave 1.86.146 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 144.0.7559.110
Additional Information: the problem doesn’t seem to happen when not using Acceleration, by “crashing briefly” i mean that the browser crashes and then return without issue
Working fine here on the same build.
Care to specify more about the computer? Is this a laptop or desktop. How I troubleshoot graphics issues depends, because laptops sometimes involve two GPU’s, and even if you select one, the other might be “presenter” if wired to the LCD, etc. So all of this matters.
Screenshot this section of brave://gpu and it’ll snapshot the GPU situation. (As then we’re going to be checking for driver updates).
Yes, thank you for the pixelated screenshot. I was able to see the GPU anyway.
Keep in mind, this GPU was introduced nearly 13 years ago, and doesn’t even support modern video codecs, it only supports Bluray era stuff from 2006: MPEG2, VC-1 and AVC (H.264). Chromium (and thus Brave) will play back some of these on the CPU, but HEVC doesn’t. (I think this is mostly a Linux/licensing issue with HEVC, as at least on Windows, AV1 will CPU-decode if the GPU can’t, but it’s a heavy burden on a CPU).
For now I’d suggest updating the driver for your GPU through Nvidia’s website, but it appears Nvidia stopped updating the 700 series in 2024.
Please remember, you can only push a card so far, and with video support becoming obsolete, drivers now becoming outdated, it’s only going to get worse.
You can try and uninstall the old driver and install the new one, but there’s no promises it’ll help.
I’m not joking, here’s a YouTube video with Stats for Nerds enabled. Look at what I circled in orange, that’s the codec YouTube is using. Notice your GPU says “No” on supported for this? That means your CPU bares the load, but with acceleration enabled, it’s crashing because your GPU says “I don’t understand this language”.
Driver updates can sometimes fix or patch this for a graceful fallback or failsafe, but again no promises on a 13 year old GPU with drivers not updated anymore.
But the problem only appeared yesterday (i noticed that Brave and Chrome updated on 28-29 of January), I’ve been running videos on browsers without issues with this PC. Anyway I did a clean install of graphic drivers and the problem seem gone so far ill wait for a couple of days to confirm.
Updates happen so often, either to Windows, browsers, anything can change thus, what appears to be browser related, may honestly not. But API’s change, and your GPU’s driver likely didn’t have an API that’s now more common than it was when the last driver version you had was capable of. But the fact remains, a driver update may help for now, but you’re still on a 10+ year old GPU which lacks so many modern codecs, it’s burdening your CPU. (And as mentioned, some codecs like HEVC, at least on Linux, won’t even play at all in any Chromium based browser unless you have a modern GPU, no CPU fallback option.)
I’ve heard the “it worked before…” line so much I’m sorry, but a lot is coincidence, or in this case, driver updates truly are that important even on an older card. But remember, the last driver is now 1 and a half old, there will be a point you simply need to upgrade that GPU.
(Like another user trying to push 50+ tabs on a computer with 8GB of RAM, not possible, either upgrade or things will simply start to not work. Don’t forget, you and the other user are talking about 10+ year old hardware. In 1994, you couldn’t expect software then to work on a computer from 1984. Likewise, in 2004, software likely wouldn’t work on a PC from 1994. So why in 2026, would we expect a computer from 2016 and older, to still work? I know we got lucky with CPU’s for a while as instruction sets kind of remained similar for a while, like AVX, but GPU’s have been evolving ever rapidly, and even more so these days. You gotta upgrade eventually.)
