Chrome windows get corrupted after resuming from suspend to RAM

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Chrome windows always get corrupted after resuming from suspend to RAM. I can only fix Chrome by restarting it. See the following video:

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (373.7 KB)

Any more information needed, feel free to ask me.

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Hi laci1,
Would like to know if you have any logs or information pointing it to driver issue.
I can see any error in attached logs.

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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1125432&q=resume&can=2

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I can recreate issue on below configuration setup -

DELL Precision T7600 + Fedora release 32 + 5.6.6-300.fc32.x86_64 + Driver 440.100 + TITAN Xp + Chromium Ver 85 + 1 Display DELL U2415 with HDMI connection

I have filed a bug internally 200658266 for tracking purpose…

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I’m experiencing the same problem on Arch Linux, Chromium version 85.0.4183.102 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit), Linux kernel version 5.8.8, nvidia drivers 450.66.

Adding this flags to ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf

--use-gl=desktop

… and / or these flags in chome://flags

#ignore-gpu-blacklist ENABLED
#enable-vulkan ENABLED

… seems to work around the issue for now.

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Thank you for the quick feedback, everyone!

I set the suggested Chrome flags, and it seems to have resolved my issue. Thank you so much!

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Just enabling Vulkan fixes it for me, no need for the other #ignore-gpu-blacklist nor the config change --use-gl=desktop flags

#enable-vulkan ENABLED

There is some concern about it being a viable solution long term though as it eats away at your RAM.

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Either of these solutions seems to fix the issue, but use-gl=desktop causes video playback performance to take a nosedive to the point where youtube starts choosing 360p when set to auto.

The second solution (enable-vulkan) seems to work fine without any noticeable side effects.

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Ok perhaps I spoke too soon. Seems like the vulkan flag also affects video playback performance.

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Yes, the Vulkan flag degrades 4K 60 fps YouTube videos to about 5 fps, which is unbearable. I don’t consider this a viable workaround, unfortunately.

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I have the same problem on a Tuxedo Laptop with Geforce GTX 1070 8GB RAM. The issue is quite annoying, help would be greatly appreciated.

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Turns out the workarounds I mentioned are not very effective. I wasn’t using --use-gl=desktop and downgraded the nvidia driver from 450.66 to version 440.100 and after I resumed from suspend and the graphics are completely broken in Chromium, so I assume this could also be a problem in Chromium’s code.

Either way, performance is just terrible with this workaround. I only keep #ignore-gpu-blacklist active and it seems fine so far, but I suspect next resume from suspend will force me to restart Chromium again.

Edit: indeed, none of the workaround (except --use-gl=desktop) seem to fix the issue after resume from suspend, Chromium is totally borked. Time to switch to Firefox.

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I’m also experiencing this problem on Arch Linux, XFCE, Google Chrome version 85.0.4183.102, nVidia GTX1060 drivers 450.66

Using vulkan seems to fix the corruption, but isn’t a viable solution because it kills video playback performance.

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I downgraded to Chrome 84.0.4147.135, and all is good again. It’s the best workaround for the time being.

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This same graphics corruption also happens after resume from sleep with Firefox when using WebRender hardware acceleration. The only way to fix the corruption is to restart Firefox.

My System

  • OS: KDE Neon 5.19 User Edition (Plasma Desktop 5.19.5, KDE Frameworks 5.74.0, Qt 5.15.0)
  • Linux Kernel: 5.4.68-xanmod1
  • Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme3 (Intel X58 chipset)
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-990x Bloomfield (3.46 GHz hexa-core, Socket 1366)
  • RAM: 12GB DDR3 PC3-10666 1333MHz
  • Video: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC GAMING ACX 2.0+ w/ 6GB RAM
  • NVIDIA video driver: 450.66
  • Screen #1 (DVI-I-1, screen 0, marked as primary):
    • Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 24" LCD Monitor
    • Resolution: 1920 x 1280 @ 120 Hz
    • DPI: 91.79
  • Screen #2 (HDMI-0, screen 1):
    • Monitor: Dell P170Sb 17" LCD Monitor
    • Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz
    • DPI: 96.42
  • X-Server: 11.0
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I also suffer from this issue. As stated experimental flags on chrome can fix te issue but makes Chrome slow and laggy.

I can reproduce just by suspend and log back in.

Heres are my specs:

OS: Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Kernel: 5.8.11-200.fc32.x86_64
Uptime: 2 days, 14 hours, 26 mins
Packages: 2401 (rpm), 4 (flatpak)
Shell: fish 3.1.2
Resolution: 2560x1440
Terminal: /dev/pts/1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (24) @ 3.800GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 4965MiB / 32081MiB

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NVIDIA and the Chrome team are working on a fix. There is another workaround to solve the screen corruption, Go to Chrome’s More Tools → Task Manager → Select the GPU process and hit the End Process button. That will fix the issue without needing to restart chrome entirely when the corruption occurs.

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Hi All,
Please refer the Power Management section in driver README file to fix issue.
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/455.28/README/powermanagement.html