Frequent flickering of the whole brave browser window!

[Rohan2]

I was having flickering issues of YouTube videos when hardware acceleration was turned on in the advanced system settings. Whereas, if I turn off the hardware acceleration the flickering is gone but I cannot use some creative web apps like Figma or related apps smoothly. The prototype section of the Figma suggests to turn on hardware acceleration for the proper functioning of the prototype view.

I have also read other topic with the similar issues and applied them like switching “brave://flags/#use-angle” from default to OPEN GL, turning the Vertical Sync (VSync) option off for brave browser in the NVDIA 3D settings.

When I was using brave after switching use angle from default to OPEN GL, I was having problems with opening multiple tabs and windows, playing You Tube videos. You Tube was suggesting to restart the browser if the video content doesn’t play shortly.

I have a NVDIA GTX 1650 graphics but at default the system was using the integrated i5 9th gen processor, therefore firstly i changed that to NVDIA processor and turned the VSync off in the NVDIA control panel - 3d settings.

Previously only You Tube videos were flickering but now the whole browser window flickers at frequent rate. And this has caused so much frustration while working in this browser. Other browsers like edge or chrome doesn’t flicker at all.

And also, brave takes much time to start than other browsers and sometimes when opening brave my laptop fans get crazy. After all these problems now I think I’ll change my browser preference if I don’t get to fix this problem. If anyone can provide me any solution for this except the solutions I mentioned above ???

[Chocoholic]

Hi and welcome to the community.

I was hoping a tech savvy community member would pop in and offer suggestions… I am definitely not tech savvy but thought I would post some information that may or may not be related. Please excuse if none of this is helpful or if it is something you already tried. I am hoping some of it might be helpful!

It would probably help other community member, or Brave support staff, if you could post both your Brave and OS versions. You can copy and paste the information from brave://version. Also, you may want to confirm that your Brave and OS versions are updated as well as your drivers (I’m sure this is the case, but threw it out there anyway ).

Hardware acceleration broken - YouTube videos flickering, anti-aliasing broken

Good news, I’ve fixed it! Today I’ve downloaded Vivaldi browser just to test it out, and noticed that it had the same exact issues - this meant that the cause wasn’t probably in the browser itself. So I got an idea to reset “Global settings” to default in NVIDIA Control Panel, and IT WORKED! SOLUTION: Reset “Global settings” to default in NVIDIA Control Panel. This means that it was caused by some setting in NVIDIA Control Panel, but I can’t tell which one.

Screen Flickering when Hardware Acceleration is turned ON

I tried disabling all of the extensions… still the flickering didn’t stop, I tried to turn off Hardware Acceleration but then CPU usage reached 100%, still the videos lagged. After doing all this I found a solution - Turn on High Performance mode in pc , if option is not there then select ‘Create a power plan’- choose high performance in that , Since my Nvidia gpu cause stuff to flicker and once the whole thing started to became pixelated and become white - I went to graphics settings and select…

SOLUTION ! Brave browser BLACK screen FLICKERING FIX ! with the hardware acceleration ON!

Driver for integrated graphics card - manufacturer versions must be installed. If you messed up with updates over the manufactured version. If thats done; RIGHT CLICK ON DESCKTOP SPACE/ DISPLAY SETTINGS - PROPORTIES/ BOTTOM - GRAPHICS SETTINGS/ EXPLORE - ADD PROGRAM BRAVE BROWSER/ RIGHT CLICK/ CHOOSE INTEGRATED CARD SAVING MODE. SETTING IN INTEL CONTROL PANELL IN DISPLAY MAX RESOLUTION REFRESH RATE 3D SETTINGS - CUSTOMISED SETTINGS VERITICAL SYNCHRONISATION ( HARWARE ) ANTIALISAING MORF…

This is an older article at Brave GitHub Wiki, but it may give you some ideas.
GPU issues incident reports

An older Brave GitHub issue report that may provide some insight. You may want to search issues on Brave GitHub if you haven’t already. I tried but gave up. I couldn’t tell if any of them applied to your issue or not.
[Desktop] After sync v2 upgrade, seeing High GPU util, potentially some OOM Kills, Screen flickering and freezing up (when Grammarly extension enabled) #11412

I think you already tried this one

Brave is flickering when hardware acceleration is active

I found a solution in my case, thanks to a Reddit user u/X0Reactor Disabling VSync in my GPU settings resolved the flickering. Here’s the process for Nvidia GPUs: Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D settings > Program Settings > Select Brave.exe > Vertical sync: Off Hope this helps others with the same issue.

This was another post in the same topic that may offer some help. I couldn’t tell…

Brave is flickering when hardware acceleration is active

I am seeing warnings for these problems. I’d post the whole log but I can’t attach files as a new community member… Problems Detected Some drivers are unable to reset the D3D device in the GPU process sandbox Applied Workarounds: exit_on_context_lost Clear uniforms before first program use on all platforms: 124764, 349137 Applied Workarounds: clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use Disable KHR_blend_equation_advanced until cc shaders are updated: 661715 Applied Workarounds: disable(GL_KH…

These may or may not be related to the fan issue… you might want to do a search on community topics and GitHub to see if you can find more information. Again, I tried but just can’t discern what is actually related to your issue.

Brave Using Way More CPU Than Chrome For A 4K60Hz Youtube Video

[Usage] I ran this test multiple times and kept getting the same result. Chrome uses more onboard intergraded GPU resources than Brave creating a better experience, the video is smoother and the fan doesn’t spin up (Laptop). I wonder if this can be changed in Brave’s code? Brave is using way too much CPU and not leveraging the onboard integrated graphics card (I disabled hardware acceleration for battery usage and I don’t want to hear the fan running+heat)

[CerealLover]

Hi

@Rohan2 I have nvidia GTX 1660ti, I7 9th gen, Intel UHD 630, Windows 11. Never had an issue with graphics. My settings (image below) might be of interest to you.

Nota Bene: in brave://flags/ , I have smooth scrolling disabled.