Question Strange artifacts issue with 'windowed' videos ?

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Specifically, (Edge) on You Tube and recently found the Steam app doing so. If video is on the default (small) view the edges of the tab or app in Steam, get this strange blinking sort of artifact going on. Changing the video over to full screen instantly fixes it. Often if I scroll the mouse over the video the artifacts will go away for a moment and then return within a few seconds.

With YT, if I turn off hardware acceleration the issue resolves. I have not found a way within Steam to make it stop unless I full screen the video.

No issue within games, watching Netflix, Amazon Prime, any other player or anything.

I cannot place the onset of this with any particular update. I am on the latest graphics drivers for my 3070 and latest (public) updates on W11, nothing beta or anything.
Is anyone else having this issue? Very recent, like last week or two.
 
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Similar thing happened to me when I added a second monitor to my setup not like a week ago, was playing CSGO and all of a sudden I get some blinking and stuttering, did a little reading online, was told to update the drivers, which I did, and play on fullscreen mode, instantly fixed it.
You could try reverting to older drivers, might solve the issue.
 
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Colif said:
if its an nvidia error, I won't go looking for it on my pc.

I wonder if its Multi Plane Overlays again

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So this would mean that any "on top of screen" overlay such as Afterburner/Riva, frame counters, temp. readings and such cannot run?
Does this also do anything to in game overlays like map and so forth?

I sure hate messing with the registry over this, but the flickering is a bit of a nuisance.
 
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I tried the MPO 'fix' and it did not.

I have to check with Steam again, but just to test I dl Chrome and it does not seem to be doing the artifacting in YT like Edge does. If I use theater view or full screen there is no issue, just with the default view and only along the sides/bottom of the playing video. If I open something like Task Manager and leave it open over the top of the playing video the issue doesn't present.

IDK if any of that is helpful, but this certainly is annoying.

Edit- never mind, doing it on Chrome as well. Started pretty much as soon as I signed in. This makes me wonder about some extension or similar.
 
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i forgot to look...

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.
 
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Ok, so I have everything aside from MS services disabled. I have all startup items disabled.

Windowed video is still flickering a bit, in particular in response to the mouse moving on or off the video. I did not note that behavior before. It went really crazy when Samsung Magician was complaining about not being able to start.

I sure hate to think this could be hardware failure, although my graphics card is still under warranty. At this point I am considering a clean install of OS just to see.

What is really strange is that the system plays games, full screen video is fine and so forth, just windowed videos.
 
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Probably too soon to be completely sure as I have mostly only been working in the 'startup' area, given the purse scope of all the processes turned on in configuration. I completely uninstalled Samsung Magician and the issue has not presented, yet. Will report back.

Thank you @Colif for the suggestion. One of the tools I haven't considered in some time.
 
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I have since gone through everything in bits, as recommended by the article above. I can find no specific cause for it. I did go ahead and disable or uninstall some things that aren't critical just as a let's see case. Even with everything disabled other than MS, it still happens but at a far lower interval. I found that if I uninstall the NVIDIA driver it tends to go long periods without artifacting. It will go for slightly less time if I do a fresh install of the driver. Resolution, framerate, nothing else has any change. I ran sfc to no errors.

Other than this one feature "default view" in YT and small windowed videos on Steam I it doesn't happen. I really have no desire to do a fresh install, so for the time being am just going to go with Theater Mode and pretend there isn't a problem. I am likely going to put a 1080 back in this build and see if the issue resolves. If it does I will RMA the card and hope it does it while they are evaluating.
 
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have you tried safe mode?

i guess if its the nvidia drivers, that won't run there anyway.

Update: The problem seems to be not only Edge, so it is not an Edge bug; the bug happened in all app windows that uses hardware acceleration (Edge, Steam, NVIDIA Experience etc); I turned the feature off in advanced display settings and now it seems to have disappeared; in actual 3D applications such as games there is no problem with or without the HAGS on or off but all artifacts in Windows itself has disappeared.
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What Is Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling on Windows? Here's How to Disable It

Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is handy, but it's not perfect by any means. Here's how to turn it off on Windows.
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