Windows 11 randomly freezing in Chrome and Edge while scrolling (RTX 4070 Super)

[8bitlurker]

Hi everyone, I have recently built myself a PC and here is the spec list for information:

Motherboard: Asus Z890M Wi-Fi
CPU: Intel 265K
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super
Ram: Kingston 64GB 5800MHz
PSU: Corsair RM1000i
Case: Lian Li Dan A3

 

What the actual issue is - when I am scrolling in Chrome and Edge quite frequently it freezes half of my screen (on the bottom I can still see how I am scrolling). This happens mostly in image-based website such as instagram, facebook, pinterest, twitch etc. 
 

The second I move the browser's window it instantly fixes it. 

 

I am using 566.36 RTX drivers as people have said they're the most stable.
That being said I also tried the newest ones - issue persists with both. 

 

Now, before you say anything here is something a bit surprusing - I installed Windows 10 and it worked absolutely flawlessly .. sadly I was unable to make the wi-fi and bluetooth of the MB work hence I had to return to Win11. 

Also tried disabling hardware acceleration but stuff such as google maps work absolutely horrible so it's a no go.

 

Really hoping anyone could provide some solutions

[Glazarus]

Check the windows system log and see if you can see nvlddmkm errors. The issues are still present with the 566.36 drivers as I believe it also has to do with problems in Windows 11. 

Does Chrome and Edge crash if you keep using it while the screen is stuck?

[8bitlurker]

1 minute ago, Glazarus said:

Check the windows system log and see if you can see nvlddmkm errors. The issues are still present with the 566.36 drivers as I believe it also has to do with problems in Windows 11. 

Does Chrome and Edge crash if you keep using it while the screen is stuck?

Not at all, given that I don't see anything, I can do everything without a problem. If I know where the button of the pop up is I can interact with it etc. No crashing at all. 

Here are the only 2 errors containing nviddmkm:

Driver Management has concluded the process to add Service nvlddmkm for Device Instance ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2783&SUBSYS_41391458&REV_A1\4&29C98C66&0&0030 with the following status: 0.

 

A service was installed in the system.

Service Name:  nvlddmkm
Service File Name:  \SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_9425e4c3b1ac1c47\nvlddmkm.sys
Service Type:  kernel mode driver
Service Start Type:  demand start
Service Account:  

[8bitlurker]

Okay, well, I believe I just fixed it myself. 

 

What I did: 

After talking some more with ChatGPT something in me felt like it would be worth changing a few options in Nvidia Control Panel. Here are my new custom settings:

 

Some of these have been proposed by ChatGPT, some others I straight up did on intuition. 

 

One last thing I changed is something ChatGPT also suggested:
 

(Optional) Force Chrome to Use DirectX Instead of OpenGL

If it’s a rendering backend conflict:

• Go to chrome://flags

• Search "Choose ANGLE graphics backend"

• Set it to DirectX 11 or D3D11 (instead of default or OpenGL)

• Relaunch Chrome

This has resolved rendering hitches for a lot of people on Nvidia hardware.

 

I have no idea which one of these fixed it but at this point I am so fed up with it that I have 0 intention to test out. 

 

Praying to the Gods it doesn't reappear but after 10+ minutes of scrolling so far it's good.

[Mark Kaine]

Try an older driver... My laptop has a 4070 and no issues (driver version ~550.xx)

 

 

14 minutes ago, 8bitlurker said:

Okay, well, I believe I just fixed it myself. 

Oh nice, if anything I suppose the direct x settings could have fixed it , let's hope it stays that way. 

[8bitlurker]

Well, I have been testing the past couple of hours and the freezing bug has disappeared. 

 

Now only remained the other one - when opening new tabs they would again not appear until I move around the window of the browser. Again with the help of ChatGPT I changed 2 settings in Chrome that seem to have solved the issue for now. Will come back later or at any point to report in case this has not solved it.

 

Disable “Use Skia Renderer for UI” Flag

This is an experimental GPU-based UI drawing method which sometimes causes these exact redraw issues.

At chrome://flags, search:

• “Skia renderer for UI”

• Set to Disabled

Relaunch.

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Test With “Zero-Copy Rasterizer” Disabled

Another culprit — it affects how Chrome handles graphical memory pages.

At chrome://flags, search:

• “Zero-copy rasterizer”

• Set to Disabled

Relaunch.

[8bitlurker]

Okay, hope to God last update on this - the freezing appeared again after some more testing, however, with some new tweaks suggested by ChatGPT I managed to seemingly fix it. 

 

See below the last 2 things I did that maybe nailed the coffin and trully fixed it (could be worth starting from here I guess?)

 

Disable Fullscreen Optimizations + DPI Scaling for Chrome.exe

Navigate to:

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application

• Right-click chrome.exe → Properties → Compatibility

• Check Disable fullscreen optimizations

• Click Change high DPI settings → Check Override high DPI scaling behavior and set it to Application

• Apply

 

Immediate High-Impact Fixes:

Disable Multi-Plane Overlay (MPO)

This is the biggest known cause for exactly your issue.

Steps:

• Open Regedit

• Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm

• If OverlayTestMode doesn't exist, create a new DWORD (32-bit)
  Name it: OverlayTestMode

• Set its value to: 5

• Restart your PC

Why this matters: MPO allows Chrome and other hardware-accelerated apps to bypass the compositor for overlays, which sounds good for performance, but is broken on many Nvidia driver versions on Win11, leading to black screens, freezes, and flickers.

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Clean Set Chrome ANGLE Backend

Go to: chrome://flags

• Search for “ANGLE”

• Set it explicitly to D3D11
  (Don’t use D3D11on12 for now — it can cause flickers on broken MPO systems.)

Relaunch Chrome