HW acceleration slowing down games

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**Description of the issue:
If I have HW acceleration off, I have screen tear in the browser and youtube videos are super stuttery unless I fullscreen them. If I turn HW acceleration on, the browser and youtube work great, but games that I play on my main screen (while having Youtube/Twitch running on my second screen) become very slow. Is there a way to have both running smooth at the same time? It used to be smooth a few months ago, maybe it changed when I switched from Win 10 to 11, not sure. Any help appreciated.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Run a YT video/Twitch stream on Brave with HW accel. on and play a game

Brave Version: 1.78.97

Additional Information: Windows 11, Ryzen 5 7600, RTX 3070, 32 GB ram

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@matesasd

Searching the Brave Community, in addition to the Internet . . .

Tips:

terms:
video, D3D11, Metal, NVIDIA, Angle Graphics, OpenGL, Vulkan, WebGL

FOR EXAMPLE, in a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://flags and search for ‘Angle’

keywords:
artifacts, choppy, drivers, lag, lagging, laggy, screen tear, sluggish, stuttering

‘Graphical Glitches/Videos Stalling’

‘https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-best-display-settings/’

‘Solution for Cloudflare captcha and laggy Youtube problem’

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unrelated, I dont have problems with Brave slowing down after activating HW acceleration

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HW acceleration = off is very taxing on cpu’s. Even my old AMD 5950 (16 C/ 32T) would get toasty if playing back 4k youtube. A lower end CPU would just start dropping frames if HW Acceleration=disabled, especially if you’re doing other tasks or other tabs start using resources.

If you want the best performance, just keep it enabled.

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