deworlld
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Hi everyone,
I've been dealing with an annoying issue on my ASUS Vivobook 15X OLED (M1503QA) and I'm hoping someone here has found a proper solution.
The problem: I get 2-3 quick screen flickers in Chromium-based apps. It goes away if I disable hardware acceleration, but then sites that rely on it become slow and sluggish, so that's not a real fix for me.
A bit of background: the issue was there from the day I bought the laptop. Everything else worked perfectly, so I never bothered taking it to a service center, figured I'd deal with it later, and eventually the warranty period ran out.
Since then I've tried a lot. The MPO registry tweak, several other suggested fixes, different driver versions, the driver from the ASUS support page, the driver straight from AMD. None of it gave me a general solution.
Here's what the issue looks like in practice. In the browser, whenever an animation that needs hardware acceleration loads, the screen flickers, and right after that there's a barely-there input lag tied to that content, almost invisible to a normal eye, but mine catches it, and it kept happening constantly. The cursor and the rest of the system are unaffected — it's specifically the hardware-accelerated content. On YouTube it was consistent: 1080p played fine, but switching to 1440p triggered the flicker instantly. It also happened with some 60fps videos. Same thing in Discord and Steam, which makes sense since both are Chromium-based.
I did find a partial fix though. In Chrome I set the ANGLE graphics backend flag to D3D9, and the flickering in the browser stopped. Since the browser is my main workspace, that more or less solved the day-to-day annoyance for me.
Worth noting: this never happens in games. Lighter titles launch and run without any flickering at all. The issue is purely tied to Chromium apps and hardware-accelerated video/animation.
My question: has anyone here run into this and managed to solve it at the system level? Not per-app workarounds like the D3D9 flag, but something that fixes the root cause across the whole system.
Thanks in advance.
I've been dealing with an annoying issue on my ASUS Vivobook 15X OLED (M1503QA) and I'm hoping someone here has found a proper solution.
The problem: I get 2-3 quick screen flickers in Chromium-based apps. It goes away if I disable hardware acceleration, but then sites that rely on it become slow and sluggish, so that's not a real fix for me.
A bit of background: the issue was there from the day I bought the laptop. Everything else worked perfectly, so I never bothered taking it to a service center, figured I'd deal with it later, and eventually the warranty period ran out.
Since then I've tried a lot. The MPO registry tweak, several other suggested fixes, different driver versions, the driver from the ASUS support page, the driver straight from AMD. None of it gave me a general solution.
Here's what the issue looks like in practice. In the browser, whenever an animation that needs hardware acceleration loads, the screen flickers, and right after that there's a barely-there input lag tied to that content, almost invisible to a normal eye, but mine catches it, and it kept happening constantly. The cursor and the rest of the system are unaffected — it's specifically the hardware-accelerated content. On YouTube it was consistent: 1080p played fine, but switching to 1440p triggered the flicker instantly. It also happened with some 60fps videos. Same thing in Discord and Steam, which makes sense since both are Chromium-based.
I did find a partial fix though. In Chrome I set the ANGLE graphics backend flag to D3D9, and the flickering in the browser stopped. Since the browser is my main workspace, that more or less solved the day-to-day annoyance for me.
Worth noting: this never happens in games. Lighter titles launch and run without any flickering at all. The issue is purely tied to Chromium apps and hardware-accelerated video/animation.
My question: has anyone here run into this and managed to solve it at the system level? Not per-app workarounds like the D3D9 flag, but something that fixes the root cause across the whole system.
Thanks in advance.
- Windows Build/Version
- 25H2 26200.8524
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Windows 11
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- Windows 11
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- Laptop
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- ASUS Vivobook 15X OLED M1503QA
