Flickering in the browser
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Hello,
I'm not looking for answers as this appears to be a bug and many people have posted about it. I get flickering on some webpages, especially battlog.battlefield.com (you may have to have an account and be on one of the game pages to see the flickering). It seems this flickering is due to having an Nvidia GPU and having hardware acceleration enabled. Disabling hardware acceleration fixes the flickering issue, but then streaming or anything media intensive is impossible without hardware acceleration. Vivaldi is based on Chromium. Google Chrome, Chromium, and Edge don't have the flickering issue. So something is up with the Vivaldi browser itself. Maybe Vivaldi needs to ask Nvidia for their proprietary drivers and implement whatever they have to implement. Does Vivaldi only use the free drivers? This has been an issue with Vivaldi for some time now and I wonder if they'll fix it.
Fonts also sometimes become very jagged and unreadable and requires scrolling the page up and down or refreshing the page to fix the fonts.
And no, the flickering isn't due to having a just recently released GPU or non-updated Nvidia driver. Flickering appears in linux also.
Regards.
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@Dayan90 Do you use optimisations in NVidia graphics settings? VSync/GSync?
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@DoctorG I already tried that solution and it doesn't work. The only solution that works is turning hardware acceleration off.
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@Dayan90 Some GPU drivers can be troublesome with Vivaldi.
Close Vivaldi, try to create a desktop shortcut to vivaldi.exe, add a parameter in target field:
--disable-gpu-compositingOn Linux i try these each test:
vivaldi --disable-gpu
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vivaldi --disable-gpu-compositing
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vivaldi --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
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@DoctorG Thank you. I'll try those and see if things change.
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@DoctorG Isn't this the same as disabling 'Hardware Acceleration'?
--disable-gpu-compositing -
@Dayan90 No, this parameter disables not GPU complete, only the compositing feature of the GPU.
