[SOLVED] [SOLVED/FIXED] Weird temporary pink artifacts/glitches after upgrading system on browser

[Ztekor]

I've just made a major upgrade of my PC; here is the full specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse (Changed from RX 580)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x16GB 3600 MHZ
PSU: Fractal Design ION SFX 650W GOLD
Motherboard: ASRock B550M ITX AC
STORAGE: WD PC SN750 250GB NVME (OS DISK) & Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB SATA
(Above parts are all new and part of the upgrade except the CPU and OS DISK)

And ever since the upgrade, on Youtube or Whatsapp Web i get these weird temporary seemingly random artifacts on very specific actions.
Here is the example:

https://imgur.com/a/1KggTG6

View: https://imgur.com/a/1KggTG6


On YouTube it appears on the video resolution option like on the image i embedded above, or when i use the video preview feature when i hover the cursor on a video on the homepage and scroll over the duration bar. It does not ever appear on the video im watching itself. On WhatsApp web it appears only when the page refreshes to load in new messages. That said both on youtube and whatsapp web, these go away as soon as I move the cursor or almost immediately on its own. It doesn't appear on anything other than that (Games, other web pages, other apps, etc. at least so far.).

At first, I thought I have gotten very unlucky and got a bad GPU but I could probably write that one off because of the reasons below, anyways here is what I have tried but didn't fix the problem:
- Do a clean reinstall of the GPU driver and Chipset using DDU
- Stress tested the GPU using fur mark and Cinebench (No temps/power problems, and problem still persists when undervolted, stock, or overclocked. Most importantly absolutely no artifacts on the stress test)
- Changing monitors
- Using different browsers
- Turning off AMD Free sync
- Checking RAM using memtest 86 and having 0 errors (I'm not sure if relevant)
- Changing HDMI cable from 2.0 to 2.1

Would love some insight on this problem. Yeah, it's not exactly a major problem but it is a source of worry because I'm worried about possible bad components + YouTube and WhatsApp web are two of my most used things on my system and it does bother me because it's very noticeable.

 

[Lutfij]

(Above parts are all new and part of the upgrade except the CPU and OS DISK)
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- Do a clean reinstall of the GPU driver and Chipset using DDU
I take it that you didn't reinstall the OS? If you haven't, remove all drives except the one you wish to install the OS onto and install the OS in offline mode. Later installing all necessary drivers with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Adminsitrator.

What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

 

[Ztekor]

(Above parts are all new and part of the upgrade except the CPU and OS DISK)
+
- Do a clean reinstall of the GPU driver and Chipset using DDU
I take it that you didn't reinstall the OS? If you haven't, remove all drives except the one you wish to install the OS onto and install the OS in offline mode. Later installing all necessary drivers with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Adminsitrator.

What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

Hi, thanks for replying. Yes i have not reinstall the Windows 10 OS as i didnt think that was necessary. BIOS is already the latest version straight from the box.

 

[Ztekor]

(Above parts are all new and part of the upgrade except the CPU and OS DISK)
+
- Do a clean reinstall of the GPU driver and Chipset using DDU
I take it that you didn't reinstall the OS? If you haven't, remove all drives except the one you wish to install the OS onto and install the OS in offline mode. Later installing all necessary drivers with the latest versions in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Adminsitrator.

What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

UPDATE: SOLVED/FIXED
Ive tried reinstalling the OS twice by using different methods (Through Windows System Reset deleting all files & Upgrade to Windows 10 method keeping files) both does not solve/fix the problem.

I came to the solution from this reddit thread where users shared similar problems although here the artifacts appearing are black/gray. Seems like the problem is caused by the underlying graphics backend/api that the browsers use (ANGLE -> Used by Chrome, Edge, and Firefox), utilizing D3D11 in windows systems by default, possibly in combination with incompatible graphics driver or something. Anyways, by switching it (ANGLE) to using OpenGL this problem completely goes away in my case. Hope this post helps anyone who has similar problems.

This post on the brave browser community also has a user with the same problems as me with the exact same pink artifacts on BRAVE browser (Also uses ANGLE) even with the same RX 7700 XT GPU. One of the replies gave a similar solution and it seems to solve/fix it in tandem with downgrading their graphics driver. This specific pink artifacts on browsers could be an AMD specific driver Issue.

 

[Martin_P]

I had a very similar issue on my RX 7600 — the artifacts only appeared in browsers, not in games or other applications. Switching the graphics backend from D3D11 to OpenGL using the --use-angle=gl launch flag completely resolved it for me. It definitely seems like some kind of driver-level issue with AMD’s newer GPUs and how ANGLE interacts with them in Chromium-based browsers. Hopefully AMD patches this in a future driver update, but at least there’s a solid workaround for now.

 

[Ztekor]

It might be an AMD RX 7000 series specific driver issue. In any case i downgraded my adrenaline version to 25.4.1 and changing the ANGLE setting back to using D3D11 and it also fixes this problem. Though using OpenGL also fixes it it may introduce instability so using an older stable working version of the graphics driver may be a better solution for this.