Performance issues due to hardware acceleration in Desktop 2.0.3 and Web UI 22.0.x

[muchachagrande]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In linux version 2.0.3 (zip) I'm having a problem that didn't happen before. When I execute Talk Desktop I see random screen glitches until the whole PC hangs and need a hard reset. This is the same problem that recently started to happen with chromium browser and its derivatives (brave, chrome, etc...) The way to solve it is turning off hardware acceleration in the browser. In chromium, this can be done from command line and from the menu. But it has to be done from command line because ones executed with hardware acceleration, you can't reach the menu to turn it off because it hangs very quickly. As you are using a chrome sandbox and because the graphics glitches are the same as with chromium, I believe that that I'm being hit with by problem.

Describe the solution you'd like I wonder if you can add some way to turn off hardware acceleration. It has to be done in command line or in some configuration file to turn it off before execution.

Describe alternatives you've considered Turning off hardware acceleration by default and expose the option to turn it on with the appropriate warning.

Additional context I'm using Ubuntu 24.04. From what I've found, this problem is happening only on linux.

[nickvergessen]

Since it's also affecting chromium directly, I'll move it over

[nickvergessen]

The problem is a bit broader. We didn't explicitly enable anything with 2.0.3 or a recent update. It could of course be that Chrome did something, but it more looks like there is a bug somewhere that simply starts eating resources.

[ShGKme]

I'll move it over

Is there nothing we can do from the spreed repo (Web UI) side? We cannot disable GPU acceleration for the Web Client from the web-page level (from the web-browser level), can we?.

[ShGKme]

@muchachagrande Did you have the same issue with the previous versions?

Did you check if you can fix it on the OS side, e.g., there is a problem with a specific graphic driver?

[nickvergessen]

s there nothing we can do from the spreed repo (Web UI) side?

I'm not sure, but we have more than 1 report for freezing Chrome in the meantime, so it seems something happened in the UI JS code?

[ShGKme]

This is the same problem that recently started to happen with chromium browser and its derivatives (brave, chrome, etc...)

Did you mean the browsers in general, or Talk specifically?

[muchachagrande]

Did you have the same issue with the previous versions?

No, in fact, I'm back using 2.0.2 with no problems at all.

Did you mean the browsers in general, or Talk specifically?

I mean the browsers themselves. Some weeks ago after some chromium upgrade, it started to make that graphics glitches at browser start and it almost intermediately hangs the whole linux.

Then I tested with Brave and it did the same, and after that I installed Chrome and it hanged too.

I searched for the problem and is solved turning off hardware acceleration feature of the browser. The trick is to turn it off at start because you can't navigate to the browser option before it hangs your machine.