so there is a huge bug with hardware acceleration where it breaks all visual output for the browser basically it does this to the browser and need to be fix asap
this is the browser btw there is nothing although you can still interact with it and search stuf granted you are not gonna see anything actually appear, annoying as fack took too long to turn it off like 30 minutes to figure out where things where
Please see the following threads/issues for more information and potential fixes for this issue:
This solved my problem. Thanks. Windows 11 Home, Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon RX 580
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 File button and share that file with me (or post in Github).
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opened 02:52AM - 02 Aug 25 UTC
gpu/driver
workaround/disable-hw-acceleration
OS/Desktop
Chromium/reported upstream
### Description
I would say this started around a week, maybe two weeks ago. A … couple of dark flickers will appear every couple of minutes while watching a Youtube video or while switching from a tab with a Youtube video to a non-Youtube tab. Sometimes it also happens on other sites, especially right after relaunching Brave - the active tab will usually flicker a couple of times.
**Tried & didn't help:**
1. Updating Brave, drivers, Windows
2. Cleaning the browser's cache
3. Enabling/disabling flags like Vulkan or Force High Performance
4. Forcing Brave to use either GPU via Nvidia control panel
5. Forcing Brave to use either GPU via Windows graphics settings
6. Disabling all plugins on Youtube
7. Disabling all plugins everywhere
**Tried & does help:**
Turning graphics acceleration off.
...but I would like for the graphics acceleration option to work properly, as overall it does mean that sites function better.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Install Brave on a laptop with an AMD CPU & Nvidia GPU
2. Enable graphics acceleration in the browser
3. Watch a Youtube video or...
4. ...navigate from Youtube to another site, or...
5. ...relaunch Brave while having a set of tabs opened
### Actual result
Screen flickering.
### Expected result
No screen flickering.
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version (brave://version info)
**Brave:** 1.80.125 Chromium: 138.0.7204.184 (Official Build) (64-bit)
**Revision:** 79b2c43a506d75eb2978685ba92ec881f4f1e82f
**OS:** Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.6159)
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [ ] beta
- [ ] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [x] with Brave Shields disabled
- [x] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
The issue appears whether the video is paused, muted, in fullscreen mode, any combination of these, or none of these. While it appears at random aside from Youtube, it seems to happen more often when a video is visible in the current tab - for example, I've just had it appear in a Facebook tab with a paused video.
The issue does not appear when using Chrome or Vivaldi.
**My GPU:** Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 laptop edition
**My CPU:** AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics
