Artifacts, micro dots when using Nvidea RTX 3060 and Firefox browser
I recently installed an rtx 3060 12gb on my old system (Win10, ga-h77-ds3h gen3 mobo + xeon ivy bridge cpu). I installed latest Nvidea Studio drivers. Everything seems fine apart from Firefox, which showed visible artifacts/flickering lines on the screen. I disabled hw acceleration in Firefox settings and now instead of the lines I just see micro dots which change position frequently. As recommended by AI i changed some other settings in about:config but the tiny dots are still there. Starting Firefox in safe mode they are still there. On MS Edge its fine, there are no dots/artifacts.
Is there something else that might fix this or there is nothing that can be done, its just how the rendering engine works on older systems and rtx 30s cards?
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I tried to run a Furmark GPU stress test, it does not even starts, shows a black screen then the application crashes. I also tried to load a model with Ollama, and it crashed too.
At this point I concluded that its a defective GPU card and planning to return it, as i can easily run a Furmark test with my integrated graphic unit, or load a tiny LLM model to run.
So i considered this not an issue with Firefox, thanks everyone for their input
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I also tried a mpo_disable.reg tweak advised online, but still nothing, so reverted it back.
Ok, it also happens in File Explorer, Task manager, i noticed. But not on MS Edge or Word for instance.
This sounds more likely to be an issue with your operating system than with Firefox.
Is it completely up to date?
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This sounds more likely to be an issue with your operating system than with Firefox. Is it completely up to date?
Yes Win 10 is up to date but you are right about the issue not being related to Firefox only. Since I saw the same dots in File Explorer and Task Manager.
On Fedora Linux, Firefox shows no flickering dots. But I noticed them on Kontact app or the Telegram client app when playing videos. According to AI: “Kontact and many KDE Qt apps uses QtWebEngine for parts of the UI, and it sometimes has tiny flickering / micro dots with NVIDIA on older hardware”.
I guess the overall issue is the old hw struggling with modern NVIDIA driver rendering, because with no Nvidia driver installed there are no artifacts at all. Installing previous driver versions up to 2022 with DDO did not help as well.
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I tried to run a Furmark GPU stress test, it does not even starts, shows a black screen then the application crashes. I also tried to load a model with Ollama, and it crashed too.
At this point I concluded that its a defective GPU card and planning to return it, as i can easily run a Furmark test with my integrated graphic unit, or load a tiny LLM model to run.
So i considered this not an issue with Firefox, thanks everyone for their input
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