YouTube Screen Tearing

[DaHotFuzz]

Since today I have been experiencing horizontal and vertical screen tearing in pretty much any video I watch on YouTube. I have tried a few "fixes" around the web but none were effective. I have messed around with V-sync on my Google Chrome browser which I use for everything, tried disabling smooth scrolling and basically nothing works. I don't know what the issue is or how it started. I'm running on a gtx 980 and my OS is Windows 10. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

What are the temps for CPU and GPU?
Is it only for Google Chrome?
Did you try any other browser and get the same problem?
Does loud noise happen when this problem happens?

[DaHotFuzz]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds:

What are the temps for CPU and GPU?
Is it only for Google Chrome?
Did you try any other browser and get the same problem?
Does loud noise happen when this problem happens?

CPU: ~27 degrees Celcius. Don't have GPU temps off the top of my head but if I recall from a few months ago when on idle it was ~32 degrees Celcius.

Yes, i just tried it on Microsoft Edge. Absolutely no screen tearing at all.

No loud noise.

[DaHotFuzz]

I doubt this is the issue but every other time I boot up windows, my pc makes a whirring noise. Starts out loud then dies down and goes away. Could this be a dying fan? I can't even tell...

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If the problem is only on Google Chrome, then use firefox or something else.

You could try removing chrome, and reinstall it, to see it that fix the problem.

[DaHotFuzz]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds:

If the problem is only on Google Chrome, then use firefox or something else.

You could try removing chrome, and reinstall it, to see it that fix the problem.

Thank you, I'll give this all a shot.

[Mad]

Same thing happens in my case with an Nvidia GTX 1070 on Windows 7. On Firefox it seems to work, but I prefer Chrome.

Edit: Found a few fixes online, but nothing worked by itself, until one person said to do the following: Disable and the re-enable or set on default "Smooth Scrolling" from Google Flags (chrome://flags), then go in Settings - Show advanced settings - Disable and then re-enable "Use hardware acceleration when available". Make sure you restart Chrome after each step as well and, hopefully, this should work for you too.

Very weird and annoying bug.

[DaHotFuzz]

Originally posted by Mad:

Same thing happens in my case with an Nvidia GTX 1070 on Windows 7. On Firefox it seems to work, but I prefer Chrome.

Edit: Found a few fixes online, but nothing worked by itself, until one person said to do the following: Disable and the re-enable or set on default "Smooth Scrolling" from Google Flags (chrome://flags), then go in Settings - Show advanced settings - Disable and then re-enable "Use hardware acceleration when available". Make sure you restart Chrome after each step as well and, hopefully, this should work for you too.

Very weird and annoying bug.

This worked! I'm amazed! Thank you much!

It is weird because I tampered with hardware acceleration before. I disabled it and it did nothing. I guess altering these settings at the same time did the trick?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by N2K12 (Nemesis):

there are no bugs in chrome. I have used it for many years and never had an issue. if you have to change the flags section, your system has a problem elsewhere. are you running a NVidia card? if so, that's why. I went to amd because of NVidia stuttering and bad drivers, hell, general bad.

Doesn't matter what GPU you go with, rendering bug happens on Chrome more than anything else, and that with both AMD & Nvidia.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by N2K12 (Nemesis):

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds:

Doesn't matter what GPU you go with, rendering bug happens on Chrome more than anything else, and that with both AMD & Nvidia.

yet I have AMD and chrome for years, zero issues. go figure. its not chrome that's the issue

Doesn't mean someone else will not have a rendering issue with Chrome. I also have a AMD & Nvidia cards, and had rendering issue on both, and it was just due to the drivers put out by both companies, that Chrome had an issue with. It could be fix by simple reinstall of Chrome, cleaning catch, or going back to the past Driver on the GPU.