I'm having a bit of a graphics issue with my Google Chrome. I recently downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 on VMware and downloaded Chrome from the terminal. The problem is that I have all this weird graphical issues, but only in Chrome web browser. Is there a way I can fix this? I want to use Chrome rather than Firefox.
When trying to post on Reddit:
When trying to search on Google:
Corner of this website:
Found a workaround for this:
chrome://flags
Search for "Vulkan"
Change from "default" to "Enabled"
Restart Chrome
I also had this problem on Ubuntu 22.04. Enabling Vulkan solves the graphics issue on chromium-based browsers. But the problem with this is that any web app that requires webGL is not working.
here's an example: https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_animation_keyframes
screenshot with Vulkan enabled
screenshot without Vulkan (on Windows)
Right now my best solution is to disable 3D acceleration in browser settings, though this comes at a cost of performance in 3D objects but you'll be able to see everything in the website correctly.
Upgrading my nvidia driver from 525 to 535 solved the problem. I just ran
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
to upgrade to the latest tested/recommended drivers.
You can always check for available drivers using sudo ubuntu-drivers list or software-properties-gtk --open-tab=4 before updating. also see Ubuntu docs
Disabling 3D acceleration in Chrome also worked for me, but it made a lot of websites quite laggy and slow.
