I’m just wondering why does Hardware Acceleration slow down Brave down so much randomly with laggy graphics and terrible performance out of nowhere? Been using Brave for months and suddenly today when I noticed such a performance hit where sites were loading so slow with graphics lag. I noticed toda…

How are you testing the performance? I’m on a 2080S here, most of the GPU usage for myself is just youtube playback (and occasionally Netflix/Disney). What about testing Brave in private mode with no extensions.

I found out that if you go to brave://flags and search for ANGLE graphics backend the “Default” setting is what slows down brave so much when you have hardware acceleration enabled. I switched it out to “OpenGL” and a big performance difference. The Default setting that Brave is giving everyone i…

Which flag did you adjust @flasher777

[image] flasher777: ANGLE graphics backend It’s called “ANGLE graphics backend” in the flags section. Change it to “Open GL”.

flasher777, Details of that flag: Choose the graphics backend for ANGLE. The OpenGL backend is soon to be deprecated on Mac, and may contain driver bugs that are not planned to be fixed. The Metal backend is still experimental, and may contain bugs that are still being worked on. The Metal backen…

This does not work for me and I have the same problem as OP but with youtube everything flickers and changes video colors.

@bdog27 , @flasher777 , In brief, try to reduce the workload on the CPU(s) and the GPU, caused by processes other than Brave Browser. Use the Windows Task Manager window (tools), and the Brave Browser Task Manager (search for that, in the Help menu). You might also use the Developer Tools >> Netw…

I would test in Brave Beta and Nightly to see if there is any improvements, we’ve had reports Chrome release is also having similar issues.

I’ve been having this issue with my Windows11 machine as of late (AMD card). Can confirm that changing this setting to “D3D11on12” fixed my issues and VASTLY improved performance playing video.

Why does Hardware Acceleration Slow Down Brave so much

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Kamiru February 4, 2022, 1:47pm 3

You didn’t provide the exact model of your CPU. Are you on a laptop by any chance?

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