Vivaldi suddenly freezes and all videos/animations in all tabs are stuck with a green screen whenever viewing videos/animations
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I'm about to head back to my dorm, once I get there I'll try to update the desktop's GPU and see if that same bug occurs.. But what about the laptop? I haven't gotten any sort of driver notification since last year.
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@quhno This is my desktop's parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NovaViper/saved/Wddyf7
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@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.
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@quhno And some say to just disable hardware acceleration...
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@ayespy Sadly didn't help for all :|
If it helps, it helps - otherwise: Back to the poking stick.BUT: If it it had helped it would be nice to get a report back that it did.
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@quhno
Hi, I am not on Windows but heard/read the WIndows Nvidia driver are not the same as the original Nvidia driver. They are often crippled or even broken.
Please check driver from Nvidia homepage and disable driver update from windows because it overwrite the installed Nvidia driver without asking.
Cant hurt anyway.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I wrote the above stuff under the assumption that the driver is the original NVidia driver.
Apart from that: The Windows drivers are usually a bit behind but are the drivers only and mostly contain only the security patches, not the other "optimisations" - which is often not what e.g. gamers want. They absolutely "need" speculative execution and pre-branching done by the driver instead of the game (which in return forces the game manufacturers to write workarounds around those, no joke, I had some talks about that with people working in that industry) to get another fps more out of the GPU, all at the cost of stability, and only that for some fractional higher percentage in the benchmarks of the usual suspects like PC-magazines and -websites.
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@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.
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@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.
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Sometimes when I open the browser it closes, I try to open it again and it does it again, why?
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@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.
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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 -
Here is the state after updating the drivers:
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Not sure if this helps but here are the info of my system and GPU: https://pastebin.com/x4LXxMcP
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@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.
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@Ayespy I built the computer from scratch.. I was told the configuration was a good starting point
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.