Apologies to any Win7 users here who were getting blocked by this. We truly appreciate your patience and assistance with addressing the issue. There’s clearly something going on under the hood with respect to Brave and Win7 display settings. We’ll work that out on our end, but this workaround should suffice for now.
For anyone in this thread (or just now getting here), I’m marking this as the “solution” temporarily. There’s a chance this may not work in all cases. If you attempt this solution (see below) and it does not resolve the issue, please leave a reply in this thread and let us know so we can further troubleshoot.
Workaround for Windows 7 Blank screen:
Find the shortcut for Brave (generally on Desktop), right-click and select Properties from the context menu.
Click into the “Target” field, and type --disable-gpu at the end of the path. Note that you must type this outside of the quotes with a space between the flag and quotes. It should look something like this:
Now, return to the modified shortcut, remove the --disable-gpu flag from the Target path and launch Brave using that shortcut.
If everything was successful, you should now be able to launch and use Brave as intended. Again, if this didn’t work for you let me know. A special shoutout to @Lauren for jumping through about 5000 hoops and helping me diagnose this
EDIT: Also shoutout to @clippy for inspiring me to try the flag again (as it had previously failed).
I’ve just installed the lattest version for Windows 64 bit and experienced exactly the same issue. I tried this solution and it worked. Great and many thanks @Mattches.
Hey Mattches,
i’m using Win 10 64. was able to insert the --disable-gpu, Bada Bing/Bada Boom. back in biz. (at first i thought it didn’t work but went back and checked everything and saw i was missing the little dash before ‘gpu’). was able to turn off hardware accel too. hope this fixes it and great thanks. so nice to have my Brave back.
peace out,
shivad
Hi there,
I tried this solution and was not able to get Brave to launch using the --disable-gpu flag in order to turn off the acceleration. Do you have any other suggestions?
I finally got around to revisiting this issue. I downloaded the latest 64-bit beta (0.69.107) a short while ago and installed it - and it worked “right out of the box”. Now I can kick Internet Explorer back to the curb.