Hardware acceleration STILL a problem (over a year)

Question

Windows 11 - I've tried the latest release and the Insider beta, and STILL having an issue.

When hardware acceleration is turned on, and Edge is set to "light" mode (with light/white/grey theme), the drop-down MENU is WHITE text on a WHITE background. Sometimes you can see some text, but it's really faint and jagged.

If I use a dark theme, it's better, but there are many cases in which the white-on-white (dialog boxes, for example) are unavoidable.

Turn off hardware acceleration - fixed.

But this shouldn't be the case.

There are a bunch of threads on this topic, but no answer.

Answer 1

It's not quite clear why this is a problem. If your display drivers produce unwanted results when Edge's hardware acceleration is turned on, then turning it off will often correct the fault, as you've discovered. This might be a problem if the computer's CPU is seriously underpowered, so that the added burden of graphics rendering causes an unacceptable shortage of resources for other tasks. Is this your situation? What problems do you face if hardware acceleration is turned off?

Edge produces a very detailed report of how the GPU is performing, highlighting any problems it encounters. While most of the report will not mean much to ordinary users, any major problems will be fairly obvious. To see it, open a new tab, type edge://gpu into the address bar and press Enter.

If you have an advanced graphics card, it will have dozens of settings to enable you to tailor its performance to your needs. You're more likely to get help with configuring it on the manufacturer's forums, like Community Support | NVIDIA GeForce Forums or Support Forums - AMD Community

Answer 2

Virtual machine.

Answer 3

Virtual machine.

If you're using VMWare, there is a known issue with Edge menus. Some users have found that changing the ANGLE backend corrected the fault in VMWare virtual machines.

In a new tab, open the page edge://flags/#use-angle. Select OpenGL from the dropdown to the right of Choose ANGLE graphics backend.

Please try this, and also test with hardware acceleration re-enabled, then come back here and tell us what happened.

Answer 4

this did not work. SEE: below the white rectangular area where... my drop-down menu is.

And actually... the only way I was able to go into options to shut off hardware acceleration ... or change to dark theme ... was InPrivate.

White-on-white menus are rough... because system-wide dark mode doesn't even fix it...

Note that it wasn't always this way. For me, it started late last year.

Answer 5

this did not work.

Sorry about that. So you do use VMWare? The OpenGL suggestion was just the first of several I found on VMWare's forum, but there are others. You're more likely to get qualified help there than here.
White text on white bg in Chrome under Workstation... - VMware Technology Network

Another suggestion for a remedy for this long-standing problem is to disable the Windows option to Show shadows under windows. Find it here: Windows settings ⚙ > System > About > Advanced system settings > Performance > Visual effects.