vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess
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@Ayespy Ok so I was pretty sure it was the third, driver issue, because I recently installed a new graphics card. However to be sure I removed absolutely all addons and even manually deleted the vivaldi folder in my user's appData/local folder. Disabled the AV and tried it again with no luck. So assuming it's an issue with my new gpu and it's driver what do I do to fix it?
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
an issue with my new gpu and it's driver what do I do to fix it?
What is shown in the first section of vivaldi://gpu (only "Graphics Feature Status")?
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Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
OpenGL: Enabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated -
@daemon_byte So you have all hardware acceleration.
The gpu/driver doesn't seem to be the problem. -
@TbGbe the timing fit perfectly but until the thread I never thought them connected. Is there a way to absolutely obliterate all the settings Vivaldi has on my system so I can reinstall cleanly?
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@daemon_byte You don't need to re-install.
First, verify that you do have a problem with the profile using Guest View
If the problem has cleared, you can just rename the profile directory and Vivaldi will create a fresh one when started.
- Check Help/About for your Profile Path
- Rename the folder "Default" to "Problem_Default"
- Launch Vivaldi
See Full Reset
You can always restore bookmarks, notes etc from the "Problem Default" folder.
Don't try to restore extensions, tabs, sessions or flags/experiments!! -
@TbGbe unfortunately not. Guest mode was just as slow and clunky.
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@daemon_byte Then it must be some Security/AV software on your PC interfering!?
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@TbGbe I use bitdefender. Have done for 3 years now and it's on all my other pcs as well. Can't see how that's suddenly the problem but turning it off earlier didn't help.
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@daemon_byte I have the same issue too. Switching to a new tab always causes the cursor to be showing the "horizontal double-sided arrow" and freezing for awhile before it moves again and switches back to the default arrow icon.
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@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe I use bitdefender. Have done for 3 years now and it's on all my other pcs as well. Can't see how that's suddenly the problem but turning it off earlier didn't help.
Just remembered this thread, see if anything there helps (e.g. turning OFF hardware acceleration )
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54338/long-delay-60-sec-and-frozen-after-clicking-on-link-to-open-new-tab -
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
OpenGL: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Disabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable -
@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
How weird!!
Still, glad it solved your problem -
@daemon_byte said in vivaldi suddenly has turned into a laggy mess:
@TbGbe that completely "fixed" the problem. At least the browser is working again although I'm not sure how much I've lost cutting the browser off from the GPU
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
OpenGL: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Disabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Vulkan: Disabled
WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailableThank you! Turning off HW acceleration solved it.
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@midnite out of curiosity what graphics card do you have?
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@daemon_byte Here you go ...
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@midnite a laptop? Thought maybe we had something in common but nope. I'm a gainward phantom 3070 with an amd chip so not the same architecture or manufacturer. Arh well who knows what singles us out. Everything worked fine before on my asus 1080ti but that's now in my son's gaming pc. Massive overkill for him but in these days you use what you can get.
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Turning off HW acceleration solved it totally for me too. The funny thing is this only became unusable with version 3.6.2165.40. I went back to v 3.6.2165.36, and it ran a lot smoother, but not perfect.
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Same issue with 3.6.2165.40 (Stable channel) (64-bit) basically lagging to the point of being unusable. Disabling HW acceleration seems to have mitigated it. I did do a graphics driver update this morning that seems to have triggered it, Intel UHD Graphics Drivers v.27.20.100.9171.
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