Vivaldi suddenly freezes and all videos/animations in all tabs are stuck with a green screen whenever viewing videos/animations

[NovaViper]

@quhno said in Vivaldi suddenly freezes and all videos/animations in all tabs are stuck with a green screen whenever viewing videos/animations:

@novaviper Sorry to say that, but probably the problem will not go away until either both of your GPUs land on the blocklist for hardware acceleration or Intel and NVidia fix their drivers.

Quite seriously, the drivers especially for those both series of GPU you have are garbage.
There are tons of green screen video problems especially for NVidia cards for all kinds of software that plays videos, see
https://www.google.com/search?nvidia+1060+green+video
and tons of proposals to solve those:

• Some say to do a clean driver install without all the added extras (which is generally a good idea, the less crud is installed the less can go wrong)
• Some say to roll back the driver to an older version (If you plan to do that: Search for the detailed driver changelogs and make sure that you get the latest security fixes but not the other "optimizations")
• Some say to disable the Nvidia overlay
• Some say to switch from DVI to display port or HDMI or whatever
• Some say changed color settings to "Highest 32 bit, 8bpc, RGB, and Limited" some others say the opposite
• Some say switch off everything that has to do with shadowplay etc. pp.

... and some even say to roll back Windows... (DONT!)

... but most of the time nothing worked right and the problems reoccurred or never vanished.
That is all like poking with a stick in the dark closet and hoping no bear jumps out.

I sincerely hope that you find a solution for your problem (some of the proposals above might even work for you), but there is really nothing Vivaldi can do against it.

Turning off hardware accleration on my laptop didn't work at all.

[xyzzy]

@novaviper If you go to vivaldi://gpu , does that page show any errors? I would also reset all flags back to their defaults to see if that fixes the problem... and if it does, would then selectively re-enable them, one-by-one. Many flags enable experimental code that's not yet ready for release and enabling some can cause severe stability issues.

[jewelryARS]

Sometimes when I open the browser it closes, I try to open it again and it does it again, why?

[NovaViper]

@xyzzy
Here's the entire thing; Gpu Stuff

[xyzzy]

@novaviper Yikes! So, that pretty much confirms that there are low-level driver/hardware/system issues (reported by both Chromium and media decoders) that need to be resolved first. Once those underlying issues are fixed, the Chromium compositing/rendering code should be happy... and the GPU errors should (mostly) go away... and Vivaldi should then work properly.

[NovaViper]

That's from my desktop.. how do I update the drivers for it?? I already have the latest drivers from NVIDIA

-- Edit--
As soon as I posted this, GeForce Experience alerted me to an update. I'm updating it now

[NovaViper]

Here is the state after updating the drivers:

[NovaViper]

Not sure if this helps but here are the info of my system and GPU: https://pastebin.com/x4LXxMcP

[Ayespy]

@novaviper NVidia 1060 series are notorious at this point, for throwing errors under Win 10, especially with Chrome/Chromium and related browses. Still, for some reason, it does not affect all systems. I'm a little shocked that you have a Ryzen and an NVidia 1060 on the same machine, but I guess I'm not up on what hardware vendors are doing.

But I do know that Microsoft is catching merry hell on this issue right now.

[NovaViper]

@Ayespy I built the computer from scratch.. I was told the configuration was a good starting point

[NovaViper]

@ayespy So, you're saying that I should just go ahead and sell off my GPU, despite I have no other gpu that could take its place atm??? When I was building the computer I wasn't made aware of this issues at all.

[Ayespy]

@novaviper I have no advice for you.

I only observe that Win10 and Chromium are making a hash of or blacklisting more and more drivers and GPUs with every version, which is something we have to rely on them to remedy - as people like Vivaldi can't fix it. I'm lucky to have an AMD/ASUS/Radeon GPU with an AMD CPU, and luckier still that AMDs have fared better in the current environment than NVidia. Further, NVidia releases a new GPU and new drivers for their current ones, especially drivers piggybacked onto complicated gaming apps, roughly once every 20 minutes - which only makes the problem worse.

And it's not just NVidia. Intel GPUs in many cases suffered horribly under Win 10 build 1803.

So I'm not calling on you to do anything. I commiserate with your trouble, but a) you are not alone and b) I don't know what to do about it.

[Blackbird]

@novaviper said in Vivaldi suddenly freezes and all videos/animations in all tabs are stuck with a green screen whenever viewing videos/animations:

... When I was building the computer I wasn't made aware of this issues at all.

With high-performance (especially gaming-oriented) video cards, you're always dealing with a potentially 'squishy' situation. The hardware cards and their drivers are usually pushing the acceptable envelope in what/how they do things and aren't always within the "normal" functionality zone of how more-generic graphics cards operate or interface with Windows or other system hardware. Add to that the reality that the video drivers aren't always well-written or fully debugged against all that might happen within the full range of software applications' display techniques. Then stir into the pot the constant changes being made with Windows feature updates (or even Microsoft's security updating of "other people's" drivers). Finally, top things off with the unevenness of stability in too many Windows updates rolling out since Microsoft abandoned traditional rigorous final QA several years age to instead lean on the more random Insider bug feedback from the field, and you have the makings of a constantly unpredictable and unstable situation.

Some video card makers (and models) have fewer problems of this sort than others... but with the continual flux in all the above factors, there's no guarantee that using high-performance video cards will be (or remain) a pain-free thing for very long.

[Ayespy]

@novaviper I'm further going to note that my GPU is sort of old, weak and cheap compared to today's standards and no longer eligible to receive updated drivers. It more than fulfills all of my rather pedestrian graphics needs, so the fact that it is a "venerable" card means unexpected changes are fewer. So I'm lucky, not "smart" in this regard. I only bought it because when Win10 first came out, the card was cheap and replaced the onboard graphics on one of my older boxes for which there were no Win10 drivers. I moved it to this box when the graphics cores on my CPU failed.

If I wanted a gaming rig, I don't know what I would do.

[mib2berlin]

@novaviper
Hi, I work with Nvidia since early 90´s without problems, lately on Linux with
GTX 560Ti, 670 and now GTX 760.
I had some several crashes some time ago but this was because I play with Chrome://flags
After reset all flags they was gone.
I would start with a clean profile and set only one flag > vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
Sometimes the latest driver have problems, try 2,3 versions back.
Check temperature of GPU.
I don´t think AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU make problems at all.

Good luck, mib

[NovaViper]

@mib2berlin Hm.. enabling that ignore-gpu-blacklist error seemed to have made a difference. Not having that issue on either the Pixel website, Pulseway's website, KimCartoon

[xyzzy]

@novaviper I can't add much more to the technical discussions here (I mainly support users on macOS) but I just want to add a word of caution about the #ignore-gpu-blacklist flag: keep in mind that the Chromium team blacklisted the GPU/driver for a reason; it might be due to minor rendering glitches or performance issues on some sites... or it might have been done to mitigate serious stability issues or security vulnerabilities in the driver.

If you choose to accept the risks and decide to force-enable GPU hardware acceleration, I would strongly advise against enabling any other graphics-related flags. In doing so, you'd be enabling experimental (and potentially unstable) code on an already less-than-stable GPU subsystem.