Vivaldi is corrupted

jumbomiku

Basically, this is what happens every time I open vivaldi
It happened suddenly after booting my PC and happens every time I open Vivaldi. Anyone knows why that's happening? I didn't try reinstalling it since I have multiple things that aren't synced/backed up and I don't want to lose them.

Ayespy

@jumbomiku That looks like a graphics driver mismatch, or a GPU starting to break down.

luetage

@jumbomiku A Mesa update is the culprit, it breaks GPU acceleration. You need to quit Vivaldi, visit your profile and delete the GPUCache and ShaderCache directories. After a restart it should work again. If you can’t get this to work you can alternatively start Vivaldi with the --disable-gpu flag, but you won’t have acceleration then.

mgillespie

Same here on fedora 38 and --disable-gpu work for now.

jumbomiku

@luetage Yep, updated it and it's fixed now

nkukard

I'm using ArchLinux and Wayland with a 6600XT AMD GPU.

b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] [1002:73ff] (rev c1)

I'm having the same issue, and it is caused by Vivaldi not a "breakdown" in GPU in my case. Reverting back to a 3 month old version of Vivaldi works fine.

The above mentioned corruption appears to be related to canvases, for me it is 100% reproducible opening up a Grafana dashboard.

Using option "--ozone-platform=wayland" appears to fix the issue. This also seems to disable Vulkan when checking "chrome://gpu".

The latest month of Vivaldi updates has been a real roller coaster ride regarding graphics, artifacts, flickering, 2-5s delays in page render ... etc on webpages compared to the latest Chromium.

Switching to software rendering makes all the issues go away, but I'm not prepared to trade a full 4 cores of CPU power just to watch a 1080p video. The hardware encoding/decoding is absolutely critical.

That being said, these are probably Chromium issues under the hood, but it would be great if someone could take a look at it.

nkukard

@mgillespie @jumbomiku are you guys using Wayland?

nkukard

Here is the corruption I experienced ...

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(the text was not corrupted, I just had to obfuscate it)

luetage

@nkukard I’m on AMD and Wayland and nuking the caches fixed the issue. But if your Vivaldi UI isn’t affected, you might have a different problem altogether.

nkukard

@luetage more than likely a different issue then, the corruption occurs on dynamic HTML5 canvases not png/jpg/gif or similar image. The dynamic HTML5 canvas is not cached.