Opera screen glitching out and wallpaper being replaced
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AWannabeArtist last edited by
I am a laptop based user. Here's the issue: The browser suddenly glitches out and the wallpaper of my new tab is suddenly replaced with my home screen. I mean it's like telecasting what's going on in the home screen, also, the display includes all the files present on the home screen. It's really creeping me out. Please help, I am scared and creeped out.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@AWannabeArtist Is this an actual change (when you check Opera's settings it shows a different wallpaper)?
Do you have any mods installed? Sometimes mods can do weird things to the screen the creator thought was "fun", so make sure to try with mods disabled.
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AWannabeArtist last edited by AWannabeArtist
@sgunhouse Umm no, I just installed a wallpaper. How can I explain this to you? Ok... Got it, Imagine my homescreen as a youtube video ok? So when it glitches out, The browser wallpaper displays everything thats going on, my mouse movement, the progress bar of stuff etc etc. It is like that
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@AWannabeArtist One off those "live wallpapers", an animated wallpaper, or just a still image? Kind of sounds like a GPU crash, so what's your system like and is hardware acceleration enabled or disabled?
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AWannabeArtist last edited by
@sgunhouse
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz 2.11 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor -
sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by sgunhouse
@AWannabeArtist No mention of your graphics system?
Years ago, I had a system which would do that. Of course, that was tied to the really poor graphics on that system - but I wouldn't expect anything like that to have an i7. Make sure all your graphics-related drivers are up to date.
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AWannabeArtist last edited by
@sgunhouse The thing is... I don't have a Graphics Card. I have the Intel UHD which i am pretty sure uses the CPU
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@AWannabeArtist I shouldn't use the word "card". Intel does make GPUs, and of course many laptop processors actually include the GPU on the same chip (even if technically it is a separate process).
You may be able to resolve the glitches by disabling hardware acceleration in the settings. No guarantee of course, but give it a try.
