Screen flickers/shows pixels at will! What's wrong and how to fix it?

[winterwonderland]

*topic*

Every now and then when i am watching youtube, the screen decides to suddenly display random pixels here and there. Reminds me of some kinda flickering...

Here's a video on what i am on about: https://streamable.com/uym1vn

How do i fix this issue?

See my specs list. I am using Windows 11. Newest drivers for gpu as well.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Looks like artifacts caused by the video card.

 

[winterwonderland]

Looks like artifacts caused by the video card.

Ah, i see. Any clues on how i can fix that, or?

 

[iameatingjam]

I think I've heard about this problem before (and experienced it, to a lesser degree). If its what I'm thinking it is, its pretty common. Try disabling hardware acceleration in your browser (or enabling it, if its disabled). I think there's a better way to fix it but I can't recall at the moment. It might have had something to do with refresh rates. Whats yours?

Check this out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1745ngx/_/k47f6vv

 

[Onasi]

This MIGHT be the bug thats been present in Chrome for like half a year now and still isn’t fixed that borked how HW acceleration works with the browser. Rather than, as advised above, completely turning it off (which while potentially helpful will lose you quite a bit of performance), you might want to try chrome://flags/#use-angle and changing ANGLE graphics backend to OpenGL. This helps in majority of cases seemingly.

 

[iameatingjam]

This MIGHT be the bug thats been present in Chrome for like half a year now and still isn’t fixed that borked how HW acceleration works with the browser. Rather than, as advised above, completely turning it off (which while potentially helpful will lose you quite a bit of performance), you might want to try chrome://flags/#use-angle and changing ANGLE graphics backend to OpenGL. This helps in majority of cases seemingly.

Thats exactly what I had edited into my post several minutes ago, lol.

But is this happening on amd cards? Because, if its happening in other applications too... Making me think perhaps nvidia has a role to play in fixing this.

 

[winterwonderland]

I think I've heard about this problem before (and experienced it, to a lesser degree). If its what I'm thinking it is, its pretty common. Try disabling hardware acceleration in your browser (or enabling it, if its disabled). I think there's a better way to fix it but I can't recall at the moment. It might have had something to do with refresh rates. Whats yours?

Check this out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1745ngx/_/k47f6vv

This MIGHT be the bug thats been present in Chrome for like half a year now and still isn’t fixed that borked how HW acceleration works with the browser. Rather than, as advised above, completely turning it off (which while potentially helpful will lose you quite a bit of performance), you might want to try chrome://flags/#use-angle and changing ANGLE graphics backend to OpenGL. This helps in majority of cases seemingly.

Mothaland! Wow, that actually fixed it! I watched a 2-hour docu on YT and not ONCE did it occur!

The method you two mentioned also works in Brave, by the way!

ONCE again, TPU to the rescue! Kudos for that. Happy holidays!

 

[Onasi]

Thats exactly what I had edited into my post several minutes ago, lol.

But is this happening on amd cards? Because, if its happening in other applications too... Making me think perhaps nvidia has a role to play in fixing this.

It is a predominantly NV issue, yes. No idea what or why has broke and who actually needs to implement a fix between NV and Chromium though. Since it’s been going on for a while now it seems no one wants to admit to a fault.

 

[Hyderz]

do you have any issues playing modern titles? if not it could be a software issues clashing with drivers...
few factors contributing... windows 11, drivers and the software you are using...

 

[winterwonderland]

do you have any issues playing modern titles? if not it could be a software issues clashing with drivers...
few factors contributing... windows 11, drivers and the software you are using...

Thanks for that note. I will keep that in mind, yes. But so far, the solution provided above seems to be working brilliantly for now.