Hardware acceleration enabled, but doesn't work

Brave Browser Desktop Support
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Description of the issue:

In my brave settings menu I have Hardware Acceleration enabled. I check my brave://flags, and at a glance, what I assume should be enabled, IS enabled.

I’m running it on Linux, via Snapcraft.

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How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Installed Brave on Linux via Snap Store
  2. Enable hardware accelleration in brave
  3. See output of brave://gpu

Expected result:

GPU Hardware acceleration enabled

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Version 1.35.101 Chromium: 98.0.4758.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

Other applications installed on my system that successfully uses hardware acceleration include, Blender3D and the Godot Game engine. Why not Brave?

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I was wondering the same thing :point_up:

Also I know you said other applications use it fine but I’m wondering if you see HWA working with other browsers specifically ( ideally one that uses Chromium as well)?

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I have only one graphics card, so I only have the one GPU afaik.

Chrome

Version 98.0.4758.80 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Graphics Feature Status

  • Canvas: Hardware accelerated
  • Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
  • Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
  • Compositing: Hardware accelerated
  • Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
  • Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
  • OpenGL: Enabled
  • Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Raw Draw: Disabled
  • Skia Renderer: Enabled
  • Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Vulkan: Disabled
  • WebGL: Hardware accelerated
  • WebGL2: Hardware accelerated

Firefox

Checked the about:config and seems to be enabled there also.

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good question tho, but no I don’t use on laptop. That said… I do know that my motherboard has an on-board Intel graphics card; But I’ve never had screens connected to that. I only use the Nvidia card (which has 2 screens connected).

Something else I’m not sure if it came across, but I’m using Brave installed via Snapcraft. So that means it’s got snap confinement, could there be some restrictions or rules that means it’s not using the graphics interface correctly?

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No, Chrome is installed via APT (Firefox also), Blender is installed via snap tho

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Well, if this doesn’t just take the cake. I was fiddling around with the flags following this post, and now I get the same Feature Status from your original post, and I can’t seem to revert it

Ouch! I feel partially responsible now! :sweat_smile:

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@andrewebdev,
Can you tell me what distribution of Linux you’re using?

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