Chrome Issue/Fullscreen Game Issue

DaedalusOS · February 24, 2015

So, a little over a week ago, I upgraded my motherboard, cpu, and cooling. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro, drivers, chrome, etc. Ever since then, Google Chrome has been nothing but a nuisance. Sometimes, it will work just fine and dandy, no issues at all. Other times, it will freeze for as long as 1-2 minutes, 99% of the time, its when I'm watching a Youtube video, or something on Netflix. I can drag and move the window, but for example if I drag it, and it gets smaller, when I enlarge it again, its whatever was in that small window just repeated. Its isolated to Google Chrome, as Firefox has had no issues with it. (Although I refuse to use anything but Chrome) Any ideas on what has caused this/how to fix it?

What I've tried:

- Un-Installed and re-installed it (Twice)

- Installed Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc

- Beta 64 Bit

Next issue:

A lot of the time, when I'm playing Arma 3, my mouse will start interacting with the application that is on my other monitor. Usually I have Teamspeak open on it, and just recently, I almost banned someone accidentally. (Not kidding, it was actually kinda funny) But its getting rather annoying when a window pops up on my other monitor grabbing my attention away from the game I am currently playing. A few times, it has actually tabbed me out, of course, right in the middle of a gun fight. Its like the mouse cursor is over there, but there is no mouse cursor. Its not smooth either. (Moving up and down doesn't do anything, its sporadic) When I right click, left click, or middle mouse, it may or may not do something in the teamspeak window. Its getting rather irritating. Halp?

DevilishBooster · February 24, 2015

So, a little over a week ago, I upgraded my motherboard, cpu, and cooling. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro, drivers, chrome, etc. Ever since then, Google Chrome has been nothing but a nuisance. Sometimes, it will work just fine and dandy, no issues at all. Other times, it will freeze for as long as 1-2 minutes, 99% of the time, its when I'm watching a Youtube video, or something on Netflix. I can drag and move the window, but for example if I drag it, and it gets smaller, when I enlarge it again, its whatever was in that small window just repeated. Its isolated to Google Chrome, as Firefox has had no issues with it. (Although I refuse to use anything but Chrome) Any ideas on what has caused this/how to fix it?

What I've tried:

- Un-Installed and re-installed it (Twice)

- Installed Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc

- Beta 64 Bit

I just built my first desktop PC a few months ago and chose Win 8.1 (stepping up from 7). I've been having and issue with Chrome freezing and have been doing a lot of research. The main thing I noticed was that I would get a message in the lower left corner when it would freeze saying that it was "Waiting for cache". First, do you use AdBlocker? I have found that a lot of people reported AdBlocker being the cause of their Chrome browser freezing in Win 8. I tried uninstalling AdBlocker and I haven't had a single issue with freezing since (that I've noticed). If you have AdBlocker you could try removing it, but I will warn you that you may not be able to reinstall it. I have been trying to reinstall it for several days now and it just refuses to work. I am guessing that this is some issue with Chrome, and not Win 8.1. So far I haven't been able to lock down a solid solution.

vembutech · February 24, 2015

Hi,

Go to "chrome://plugins/" in Google Chrome (minus the quotes) and remove the Flash plugins that are under the Google Chrome directory. (You should only have the one under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\ enabled.) This may resolve the issue . I believe the problem lies with Google Chrome's latest update.

Google should fix this you could then just re-enable the plugins.