[1116] General HWA cleanup

New snapshot today (technically, the first post-alpha snapshot) with a whole bunch of fixes for hardware acceleration. (Not in the blog post itself, but in the comments Ruario does say it includes the fix for the security issue that they released 11.52 about.) Main thing would seem to be the fix for the memory leak in Windows, and some changes to the "blocklist" (list of supported drivers) and a couple of crashers. No listed known issues.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2011/10/20/hardware-acceleration-fixes

Question: Why is the HWA that will be fully functional in Opera better than that of other browser?

I have very often the problem that window titlebar does not have correct layout when maximized and it looks like this:
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2976/operabug.png

You can see if your computer is supported by opera:gpu. Make sure that your drivers are up-to-date, older drivers may not be supported even thought the actual hardware would be with current drivers.

Platform (as in, XP Home 32-bit, 7, etc.) and actual driver version?

HD 6850 on win7 works (mostly) juuuust fine!
E.g.:

(install-buttons on extensions-portal, looks ok on hover (bootom one in the image)

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http://forum.de.selfhtml.org/ and some wikipedia pages still hanging browser.

totally crashed version, many pages are completly black
last good: 12.00 pre-alpha 1090

http://hiho.pl/zlotowinfo/clipboard01.jpg - forum post edit
http://hiho.pl/zlotowinfo/clipboard02.jpg - fritzbox fon konfig page (voip/router )

radeon 5750, q6600 (4x2400), win7-64

Backend Vega
OpenGL
OpenGL
Wersja listy blokowanych
1
Blocklist status for 2D
Obsługiwana
Blocklist status for 3D
Obsługiwana


i done: Enable Hardware Acceleration to 0 & now opera works

@zlotowinfo
latest drivers for your graphics card installed?

yes driver updated
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx


Driver Packaging Version 8.892-110914m-125030C-ATI
Catalyst Version 11.9
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1186
2D Driver File Path .....
Direct3D Version 7.14.10.0860
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.11079
Catalyst Control Center Version 2011.0908.1355.23115
AMD Audio Driver Version 7.12.0.7702

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

couple of crashers.

BSOD when watching YT. First built since years with this kind of problem.

XP+Radeon. HA disabled!

Originally posted by Galnospoke:

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

couple of crashers.

BSOD when watching YT. First built since years with this kind of problem.

XP+Radeon. HA disabled!

Yeah, same here. Never had any BSOD before but it started with using Opera 12. The last BSOD was due to tcpip.sys.
And yesterday, when I was watching youtube I got "Your display driver crashed and needed to be restarted" message. (I don't know English equivalent so just quick translation).

Win7 x64, nVidia 9600GT + last nVidia driver.

Originally posted by Galnospoke:

BSOD when watching YT. First built since years with this kind of problem.XP+Radeon. HA disabled!

That's quite strange. But, despite you NOT using HW/acc, I'd still suggest you update your graphics drivers.

Did you try another browser? Maybe the problem lies with Flash...

Originally posted by Hades32:

Did you try another browser? Maybe the problem lies with Flash...

Downgrade to 1105 and 100% stable.

Originally posted by Galnospoke:

Downgrade to 1105 and 100% stable.

Well, that IS strange.
I guess you should post your EXACT system setup and all the information the BSOD gives you...

Microsoft Windows XP Professional + SP3

DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 3100 MHz (15.5 x 200) 6000+,
Asus M2N (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN),
nVIDIA nForce 6100-430, AMD Hammer

ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (512 MB) + Cat 10.09

BSOD - crash dump cannot create, system in total freeze. BSOD says it it one of Catalysts dll - sorry, I dont remember exactly. This same movies on Firefox in this very same time without any problem.

If you update to a more recent version of your driver, does it still crash?

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

If you update to a more recent version of your driver, does it still crash?

Of course I use 11.09 and they are latest AMD drivers, I dont use beta. My fault!

Flash player performance is very low, looks like Hardware acceleraion for adobe flsh player is not working since high CPU usage about 40-50% and very laggy input and responce when playing Google plus game. While on internet explorer games runs smooth and fine.

E6500 3.5ghz
AMD 5750

right now, I was watching video in Opera and I got "The NVIDIA OpenGL driver detected a problem with the display driver and is unable to continue", when I pressed OK, Opera closed with error message "pure virtual function call" or something like that.

Originally posted by Galnospoke:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional + SP3

DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 3100 MHz (15.5 x 200) 6000+,
Asus M2N (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN),
nVIDIA nForce 6100-430, AMD Hammer

ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (512 MB) + Cat 10.09

BSOD - crash dump cannot create, system in total freeze. BSOD says it it one of Catalysts dll - sorry, I dont remember exactly. This same movies on Firefox in this very same time without any problem.

Start Opera with the -nohwaccel parameter and try again. This seems to fully disable HWA, while the opera:config setting allows the browser to do some GPU queries, etc.

Will somebody mind replying me WTH is wrong with flash player?

FlashPLayer seems to work ok, BUT - scrolling past flashplayer (with theme installed - havent tested without) causes strange overlapping flickering effekt -


anyone else confirming?

addtional bug:
using non-default theme causes Opera to lose "docking" ablity on Windows7 (maximize window if pulled to the upper edge of the screen, etc)
anyone confirms?

The browser extracts the processor 80 to 100%

• Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; Edition Next; cs) Presto/2.9.220 Version/12.00
• Linux Mint Debian 2001109

Originally posted by bleicher:

FlashPLayer seems to work ok, BUT - scrolling past flashplayer (with theme installed - havent tested without) causes strange overlapping flickering effekt -


anyone else confirming?

It hapens on default and new themes, its not only flash player most of the elements flicker across address bar while scrolling.

Originally posted by mubaidr:

Originally posted by bleicher:

FlashPLayer seems to work ok, BUT - scrolling past flashplayer (with theme installed - havent tested without) causes strange overlapping flickering effekt...

It hapens on default and new themes, its not only flash player most of the elements flicker across address bar while scrolling.

Could it be this old bug in Vega:
> open a page where wmode for a Flash embed is set to either "direct" or "gpu" (examples - flashviewer_gpu and flashviewer_direct )
> cover the Flash embed with some Opera dialog (example - open the Start bar, or copy/paste javascript:alert('Hello World') in the address bar)
> the Flash moves to the top left corner of the screen and causes display corruption
?

Not sure if it's reported to the bugtracker...