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Description of the issue: YouTube starts to “spaz out” as well as some other visual glitches on normal pages. How can this issue be reproduced?
Launch YouTube
Play a video
Observe
Expected result: Video plays normally
Brave Version( check About Brave): v1.47.171
Additional Information: This also happens in normal HTML5 video elements as well as other websites.
Please see video here: https://streamable.com/zkta6q
This suddenly started happening today and did not happen yesterday.
This is not a problem with YouTube as it also happens on other websites, and the glitches also occur outside of the website.
Yes, I disabled all my extensions too and reinstalled brave.
I also tried the Windows media player, Discord and Opera and everything (including YouTube) plays just fine.
In case this is relevant: GPU - RTX 3080, latest nvidia game ready driver
I also tried a stress GPU benchmarker and it rendered everything just foine.
After a bit of digging, and for added context, turns out I forgot that I enabled “MFAA” setting in Nvidia control panel because I was testing some things:
As soon as I disabled it, hardware acceleration works normally now with the default settings!
I probed into this a little more because my Visual Studio Code instance was having issues as well with HWA.