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    Chrome flickering when alt-tabbed out of a game

    Hello folks, I've run into a bit of a puzzling issue with Chrome after building my new PC and am wondering if anyone else has encountered something similar and knows of a solution.

    If I alt tab out of a game and try to use Chrome, I get a lot of flickering/screen tearing. It only seems to happen with games that aren't running in full screen mode (Destiny 2, specifically). It does not happen with Firefox, only Chrome. If I switch Destiny 2 to Fullscreeen it seems to stop, but then alt-tabbing becomes a lot more annoying and I'd really rather be able to play in Windowed Fullscreen.

    I've tried enabling G-Sync for full screen and windowed mode in the Nvidia control panel, but that didn't seem to make any difference. Does anyone have any other ideas I could try, or any thoughts on why it happens with Chrome but not Firefox? This is a new build and my first time assembling my own rig so I'm hoping I didn't muck something up. I have a 4070 Ti Super and everything else seems to be working completely fine.

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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    Chrome uses all the GPU acceleration it can finds so it can be picky while gaming or with shitty GPU drivers.

    I'd try first to keep the GPU drivers up to date otherwise you could always try disabling "Use graphics acceleration when available" in Chrome settings.

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    I'll give that a try. Disabling Windows HDR seems to have stopped it but I'd rather keep HDR on if I can help it.

    If I can't sort it out another way it might just end up being the push I needed to finish migrating back to Firefox, lol.

    Edit: It's also apparently a known issue between Nvidia and Chrome. My drivers are up to date (I only built this PC a week ago haha), but I found several posts about it on the Nvidia forums.

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