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The AMD Driver Thread

Dicehunter said:
@AMD_Vik been getting grey screens after a few minutes of watching a youtube video using Firefox, Turns out it's to do with Firefox's hardware acceleration not liking AMD drivers so I have to disable it.

Tested with my trusty old GTX 1080 and zero issues with hardware acceleration. Not sure if it's something AMD needs to investigate or if Mozilla do but thought it was worth mentioning.
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Get a better browser like Chrome. No issues with that, even if you only use it for Youtube.
 
Dicehunter said:
@AMD_Vik been getting grey screens after a few minutes of watching a youtube video using Firefox, Turns out it's to do with Firefox's hardware acceleration not liking AMD drivers so I have to disable it.

Tested with my trusty old GTX 1080 and zero issues with hardware acceleration. Not sure if it's something AMD needs to investigate or if Mozilla do but thought it was worth mentioning.
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I'm not seeing that issue here. Latest drivers, 6900XT and Firefox. Is it model specific?
 
Also using Firefox, on a 7900XT and the only extensions I have are uBlock & 'Hide YouTube shorts' - no issues at all for me using YouTube or watching videos.

What version of Firefox are you on @Dicehunter ?
 
Dicehunter said:
@AMD_Vik been getting grey screens after a few minutes of watching a youtube video using Firefox on a 7900XTX, Turns out it's to do with Firefox's hardware acceleration not liking AMD drivers so I have to disable it.

Tested with my trusty old GTX 1080 and zero issues with hardware acceleration. Not sure if it's something AMD needs to investigate or if Mozilla do but thought it was worth mentioning.
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Grey screens as in a brief / intermittent flicker? Is this over the bounds of the video, the browser viewport or the entire screen? Can you tell us what your display setup is?
 
AMD_Vik said:
Grey screens as in a brief / intermittent flicker? Is this over the bounds of the video, the browser viewport or the entire screen? Can you tell us what your display setup is?
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Display setup is 1 monitor running at 165Hz, 3440x1440, Freesync Premium Pro both on or off makes no difference, The grey is all over the main screen but the bookmarks toolbar is still viewable which is odd.

This doesn't happen with Edge or Chrome so it may be something Mozilla did behind the scenes and not driver dependant as both those browsers are smooth as butter, But Firefox doesn't seem to like AMD lately.
 
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I can't say I've seen anything like that within the group on NV31, and I think we have a healthy population of Firefox users in general, myself included.

Do you have the 'ambient mode' setting enabled on the YouTube video player?
 
AMD_Vik said:
I can't say I've seen anything like that within the group on NV31, and I think we have a healthy population of Firefox users in general, myself included.

Do you have the 'ambient mode' setting enabled on the YouTube video player?
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I have tried with it both on and off. If it keeps doing it I'll just switch browser when I use youtube.
 
Does firefox have a power saving or performance mode turned on which might cause issues if like me in edge it was cauasing low fps on streaming videos and not nice, turned that crap off and was fine. Also if u have access to flags like chrome does etc u can try forcing it to use dx9 rendering instead of whatever is dafault as that used to clear up alof of issues on chrome when i used it so i didnt have to turn hw acceleration off. Not sure if it will help mind but just ideas to try i guess.

Have you tried a nightly build, maybe it might help? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0a1/releasenotes/ Or perhaps do a backup and reinstall ff it might somehow fix something that caused it?

Also try troubleshoot mode maybe, could be a addon causing it or something else that is configured diff from default. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode Double check if u use a dark or light themed change isnt causing it if u use any of that stuff. Also if u use windows scaling, if u use other than 100% check that.

Do u use https://www.userchrome.org/ to modifty anything, i wonder if u have that and delete it it might make a fresh default one that might fix it, who knows i just mention as saw this topic causing some grey on the browser somewhere and they fixed it with that file and some editing. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/co...le_grey_overlay_around_address_and/?rdt=64217

One last thing i googled, a refresh thing for FF, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1059984 Dunno if it helps, also read below about
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Installed Plug-ins

Shockwave Flash 17.0 r0

Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.4.634Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 12.1.3.153Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.8.638

Having more than one version of a program may cause issues.
" stuff. Tho its a old post. :/

Dice, this thread sounds like what u described, id suggest have a good read through. https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-graphics/6900xt-grey-gray-screen/td-p/540983

If none of that google fu helped, then im stumped, sry i couldnt help more.

Oh one last thing to try, turn mpo off, https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-dri...screen-crashing-and-glitches-with/td-p/560789 might fix it i dunno.
 
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Dicehunter said:
Must be something wrong with my installation then, For a few months everything was smooth, then I started getting issues. Maybe a bugged windows update or something.
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I remember I had to ditch firefox due to similar issues. Chrome is not an option for me and neither is Edge so that leaves Brave which has been working without fault since day 1 of use. Though after switching to Linux Firefox hasn't caused any issues on the few tests I've done.
 
Phixsator said:
I remember I had to ditch firefox due to similar issues. Chrome is not an option for me and neither is Edge so that leaves Brave which has been working without fault since day 1 of use. Though after switching to Linux Firefox hasn't caused any issues on the few tests I've done.
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Yeah I hav a Linux Mint installation on a separate NVME and Firefox under that performs great, Just Windows seems to have weird issues now and then.
 
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