I will cut this short. When graphic acceleration is on, you get black screen stutters, when it is off you get exteremely low fps while watching any media. Is there no viable solution for being able to use your computers performance while having epilepsy attacks?
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@Pabre when graphic acceleration is on it’s using your GPU. When it’s off, it uses your CPU.
If you have issues with it on, then it means your graphics card settings or driver needs adjustment. Or, sometimes you can make adjustments to flags but those come with their own risk. (such as recent Chromium update doesn’t let people use OpenGL or D3D9 for ANGLE, instead showing a blank screen)
As for stuttering with it off, it just would seem like perhaps your CPU isn’t able to manage everything. Out of curiosity, have you tested in Chrome to see if it has the same problem?
Also, what OS, specific version of Brave, and graphics card type are you using? (Such as Brave 1.23.456, Windows 11, NVIDIA)
Hey, thank you for your fast reply. Im on win10 pro, amd ryzen 7 4800H, 3050ti (laptop ver.) Brave 1.81.131 . I am currently trying out different browsers, and the last one was brave. I chose to stay with it because it seemed way faster than the other ones with navigating through the tabs and all. But I never experienced any kind of stutter and or black flashing with any kind of media on other browsers. how can i adjust my graphic card settings to fix this?
@Pabre Graphics card settings can be adjusted through the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Two settings that often cause issues are Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) and Background Application Max Frame Rate. In most cases, both work better when disabled.
Got it. The reason I asked about Chrome specifically is because Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, and many other browsers are built on the Chromium engine. Chrome is the closest to “pure” Chromium, so testing there helps determine if the issue is specific to Brave or if it’s a Chromium-wide problem. If Chrome doesn’t have the same issue, that points to something in Brave rather than in Chromium itself.
I just checked it again and it works without problems. I will search about the graphic settings. thanks for the help!
Edit: I meant i checked the chrome based browsers btw. brave is still bugging
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Negative under normal circumstances that would be the case but due to the new bug with the latest release has caused plethora of people having the same issue of brave just stopped working due to hardware acceleration and only way you can get it to function correctly is by doing the –disable_GPU . I have dealt with this for the past 4 and it has nothing to do with my Graphic settings or Drivers because it was literally working fine before the new update .
I suggest getting up with other community members because its clear yall dont talk to each other .
@Starscream89 sounds like you came to make claims without reading what is going on. The issue you referenced has nothing to do with this topic.
This most recent issue you’re talking about is only for people who changed things in the experimental brave://flags or chrome://flags for ANGLE, which got broken in the Chromium changes.
People who chose particular flags experienced a blank screen when they launch. You don’t see that expressed here, do you? And there is a solution to it.
This is incorrect. You may sincerely wish to educate yourself a bit more. Below are some links
For example, did you see Brave browser turned transparent and cannot be used or uninstalled - #117 by Saoiray
Or the Github at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/48236
Or the tons of comments to show it’s happening in Chrome as well if you check https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1mimca3/new_update_for_chrome_broken_just_gives_me_a/
@Pabre I see your edit now. Earlier I thought you meant Brave was working well. Have you been able to check for driver updates and your NVIDIA Control Panel settings to see if any impact yet?
I just wanted to express a problem that clearly no one else got a reply on their own post and maybe hoped to get a fix reply. if you search the problem in the site, some people had the same problems but there was no one who replied. Also I don’t believe we are talking about the same problem here.
either way thank you for helping.
I forgot about the driver update. doing that right his second, will update you about it in 5 mins.
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@Pabre no promise it will help, but here are some screenshots I shared with people before in regard to my NVIDIA settings for Brave. There if you want to compare.
The other thing is you may want to check brave://flags and look for Vulkan. I believe it should be disabled by default. If you have it on, maybe disable it. For some reason it’s been more problematic than helpful when on.
Thanks, I did the driver update, checked the control panel settings (they were all the same) and checked the vulkan setting (It was closed by default). It didn’t seem to fix the problem. maybe I will wait a few days and if it isn’t fixed by updates I will try to create a ticket for the dev team (or however people report bugs to the devs here).
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@Pabre thanks for checking. One of the other that you can do is test in a new browser profile. That’s the hamburger menu 
→ More Tools → Add new profile and test it without making changes or adding extensions
If you have issues in that one, come back and advise. At that point I’ll tag in Mattches from Brave to see if he can help. (that wouldn’t be until after the weekend anyway).
Sorry didn’t get to a faster answer, I just was trying to work from the base of common causes here. Profile is last of the more common causes and solutions. Checking the new profile is kind of the last of it overall, aside from telling you to also test on Brave Beta or Brave Nightly.
It’s exactly as you did. Right now it’s the weekend so browser support isn’t active. I tend to randomly attempt to help people as I feel like it, with me being just another user. But at least can work people through basic suggestions and gather relevant data for support or the devs.
I tried to add another profile but still nothing. Don’t worry about a faster answer, it was my first time in a forum getting a reply this fast and you helped so much. I expected to get an answer in like a week at best. Again, thank you for all your help. Lets hope that we can achieve a fix with Mattches’ help.
Tagging @Mattches for additional ideas. Since there’s a decent amount of replies, here is a summary of the issue:
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Problem
- With hardware (graphic) acceleration on: black screen stutters occur.
- With hardware acceleration off: extremely low FPS when watching any media.
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System Information
- Windows 10 Pro
- AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti (laptop version)
- Brave version 1.81.131
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Additional Notes
- The issue does not occur in Chrome.
- Tried updating drivers and adjusting NVIDIA Control Panel settings, but no success.
- The issue persists in a brand new Brave profile.
@Pabre so last two things I’ll leave you with for now in case you feel like experimenting:
- Install Brave Beta or Brave Nightly to see if it happens there as well. (helps to see if it’s a version issue)
- Change the executable on your normal Brave shortcut to
chrome.exeinstead ofbrave.exe. While not ideal and is just temporary, sometimes it “plays nice” with graphics cards by having them treat it like it’s Chrome even though it’s not.
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I been reading what has been going on and your first reply to the dude was that is was his graphic drivers or settings causing the issue ! I simply stated that is not true due to the fact a lot of people on the latest Brave Browser are having the same exact issue with the graphic acceleration being on causing the browser to open up gray and blank .
I simplly downgraded to a Nightly version and guess what the problem went away so Yes the newst version is messed up and is causing the issue not the graphics drivers or settings of a person PC .
But whatever.
Same problem here. This isn’t a new problem by any means, when I previously searched for help regarding this I was advised to force Brave to use OpenGL. However this work-around no longer works as OpenGL is no longer supported.
Edit: Seems to only happen in youtube in full screen mode so far.
Windows 11 Home, Intel 13700kf, Geforce RTX 4070Ti, 38” Ultrawide 3840x1600
@UncleFungus can you try downloading and running the Nightly build of the browser (note that it will download/run separate from the current browser install you have – nothing will be overwritten) just to test and see if the issue occurs in Nightly as well?
Whatever is causing it may have been fixed further down the pipeline. I’m reaching out to a few other team members who are more well versed in this than I am as well.
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I don’t know why but the nightly isnt showing any problems as of this message. It seems something happened between 2 days ago and today that fixed something. for future readers, I followed Saoiray’s instructions on brave(normal version), while nightly also showed that problem and 2 days later it fixed itself. thank you to everyone who helped throughout the problem, it was my first time fixing a problem and getting replies this fast.
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We have an open issue for this here:
If anyone here has a Github account – it would be great if you can add your reports the thread linked above with all of the relevant information. If not, please share that information here so I can add it to the thread/share it with the relevant devs. That information being the following:
- Please share your GPU report: To do this, visit brave://gpu and click the
Download Report to Filebutton and share that file with me (or post in Github). - Characterize the issue: To help diagnose this, knowing more specific information about each individual issue/instance is helpful – information like:
- Is there a specific website or websites having the problem? It’s important to capture which sites specifically.
- Have the person try launching Brave with
--disable-gpu. Does this help in any way? - Try renaming
brave.exeaschrome.exe. If this fixes the issue, the root cause may be an anti-virus or anti-cheat software which is interfering with Brave.
Thank you