GUI glitches / artifacts (GPU or driver problem)

Updated Issue Description (notes from @bsclifton)

There are a lot of combinations of video cards / drivers / etc and Chromium will try to do its best job to resolve these. You can view your GPU related information at brave://gpu

In some cases, users will experience the screen looking unusual- various glitches or artifacts being rendered. For example:

In these cases, we recommend the following:

1. Update your video drivers to the latest version, reboot if needed, and restart Brave
2. If updating drivers doesn’t work, you can visit brave://settings/system and disable Use hardware acceleration when available

Please leave a comment or a +1 if you are running into this issue. There are driver allow/block lists which get updated with each version of Chromium - so if you had an issue, there’s always the possibility that it has been fixed. An example of the two lists (on brave://gpu under Version information:

• Software rendering list URL https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/1a139f28ecc27719439e37c6b1533cee999cb802/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json
• Driver bug list URL https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/1a139f28ecc27719439e37c6b1533cee999cb802/gpu/config/gpu_driver_bug_list.json

You can toggle HW acceleration and see if it works OK. Using hardware acceleration is preferable because the browser will offload rendering operations to the graphics card instead of using the CPU

Tracked upstream in Chromium with https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1068170&q=gpu artifacts&can=2

Original Issue Description

Search suggestion panel is not fully visible while typing in omnibox. Moreover, sometimes there are some graphical artifacts (see screenshots in “Actual result”).

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open new tab.
2. Start to type what you want to be found.
3. See search suggestions ghost (see box shadows on screenshots).

Actual result:

Beta: Dev:

Expected result:

Search suggestions are visible fully as usually and without artifacts.

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Brave version (brave://version info)

0.61.36 Chromium: 73.0.3683.39 (Официальная сборка), beta (64 бит) 0.62.7 Chromium: 73.0.3683.39 (Официальная сборка), dev (64 бит)

Reproducible on current release:

• Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds? Yes, both current builds.

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Chrome – no.

Additional Information

This issue starts happening only in latest Brave Beta/Dev. Not in previous builds.

[dayfuaim]

BTW I’ve just worked around this issue by turning “Hardware acceleration” OFF in “Settings”. It’s not OK though, but I can work in browser yet.

Both Beta and Dev.

This issue still needs to be fixed.

[jbmagination]

Just here to say that I’m having this issue as well.

Here’s my GPU report from brave://gpu with it on:

Data exported	2021-03-03T12:50:21.018Z
Chrome version	Chrome/88.0.4324.192
Operating system	Mac OS X 10.15.6
Software rendering list URL	https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/31b458a18f133db9203eb5a5dd6552de0716dda3/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json
Driver bug list URL	https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/31b458a18f133db9203eb5a5dd6552de0716dda3/gpu/config/gpu_driver_bug_list.json
ANGLE commit id	c8011782e13d
2D graphics backend	Skia/88 433b2a55a5fbc9e3f5a6b457526ad99d73ba6117
Command Line	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser --disable-domain-reliability --disable-features=SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,WebOTP,NotificationTriggers,AutofillServerCommunication,PasswordCheck,LangClientHintHeader,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,TabHoverCards,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,DirectSockets,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,TextFragmentAnchor,PrivacySettingsRedesign,IdleDetection --enable-dom-distiller --enable-features=ReducedReferrerGranularity,PasswordImport,WebUIDarkMode,AutoupgradeMixedContent,SafetyTip,LegacyTLSEnforced,PrefetchPrivacyChanges --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --no-pings --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=PrefetchPrivacyChanges,LegacyTLSEnforced,SafetyTip,AutoupgradeMixedContent,WebUIDarkMode,PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity --disable-features=IdleDetection,PrivacySettingsRedesign,TextFragmentAnchor,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,DirectSockets,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,SubresourceWebBundles,TabHoverCards,LangClientHintHeader,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,PasswordCheck,AutofillServerCommunication,NotificationTriggers,WebOTP,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end

And here it is with it off:

Data exported	2021-03-03T12:49:44.723Z
Chrome version	Chrome/88.0.4324.192
Operating system	Mac OS X 10.15.6
Software rendering list URL	https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/31b458a18f133db9203eb5a5dd6552de0716dda3/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json
Driver bug list URL	https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/31b458a18f133db9203eb5a5dd6552de0716dda3/gpu/config/gpu_driver_bug_list.json
ANGLE commit id	c8011782e13d
2D graphics backend	Skia/88 433b2a55a5fbc9e3f5a6b457526ad99d73ba6117
Command Line	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser --disable-domain-reliability --disable-features=IdleDetection,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,PrivacySettingsRedesign,TextFragmentAnchor,DirectSockets,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,TabHoverCards,LangClientHintHeader,PasswordCheck,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,AutofillServerCommunication,NotificationTriggers,WebOTP,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection --enable-dom-distiller --enable-features=PrefetchPrivacyChanges,LegacyTLSEnforced,SafetyTip,AutoupgradeMixedContent,WebUIDarkMode,PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --no-pings --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=ReducedReferrerGranularity,PasswordImport,WebUIDarkMode,AutoupgradeMixedContent,SafetyTip,LegacyTLSEnforced,PrefetchPrivacyChanges --disable-features=SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,WebOTP,NotificationTriggers,AutofillServerCommunication,PasswordCheck,LangClientHintHeader,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,TabHoverCards,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,DirectSockets,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,TextFragmentAnchor,PrivacySettingsRedesign,IdleDetection --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end

I did check these two reports, and I don’t know if this is supposed to happen, but yes, they’re different.