Solved Screen tearing / rippling while scrolling

[Ashdemai]

Hi, I've tried looking for threads about this issue but I found none. My problem is when I scroll down web pages I have this weird rippling tearing effect on the bottom of the screen and while watching a video with high flickering, it's very noticeable to see a screen tearing.

My GPU is up to date, I tried browsing with a Guest Profile, I tried disabling all my extensions and the issue persists. I checked if the problem is global with the Microsoft Edge browser but I didn't see the issue manifest there. I've been living with this problem for a month but it's really bugging me and I'm out of ideas where to look for a solutions.

This is what comes out from Vivaldi://GPU: https://pastebin.com/KbYh5Ga2

Here's a video example of the rippling effect on the bottom of my screen: https://files.catbox.moe/5yaudb.mp4

An image as example of what I'm seeing when it flickers in a video:

[Ashdemai]

Well well, I guess putting the option "Use of Hardware acceleration" did work. That was a quick and easy fix. Thanks!

[npro]

yep you must enable hardware acceleration in the settings as of step 1. I can see you have a GTX970 and up-to-date drivers which shouldn't cause you any problems.

[npro]

@Gwen-Dragon just put the part after 0x for example: https://devicehunt.com/search/type/pci/vendor/any/device/13C2
GPU0 is missing the "active" part.

[Ashdemai]

Well well, I guess putting the option "Use of Hardware acceleration" did work. That was a quick and easy fix. Thanks!

[Ashdemai]

@Gwen-Dragon By the way, what's wrong with version 1903?

[rockerest]

Just a quick note for anyone coming here more recently: I found this article today after I did an update of Vivaldi from the (Windows) taskbar icon prompt. Pages starting exhibiting obvious graphical tears when I was scrolling. I already had Hardware Acceleration on. A full restart of Vivaldi solved the issue.

So for end users: Turn on hardware acceleration. If it's already on, restart your browser again.

For the Vivaldi team: Based on the change notes, it looks like you're working on background auto-updates. This might be an issue to check into: if every background update transparently "disables" hardware acceleration until a manual restart, it might cause some bug reports.

[Sanny069]

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