Google Chrome displays pink color screen

Problem

After upgrading from Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1, Google Chrome displays pink color screen like this :

chrome-in-pink

Windows Environment

  1. Chrome 34.0.1847.137 m
  2. Windows 8.1
  3. NVIDIA 331.58
  4. Chrome GPU : NVIDIA 9.18.13.3158

To get the Chrome GPU, type chrome://gpu in the browser URL, refer to the driver version.


Driver vendor	NVIDIA
Driver version	9.18.13.3523
Note
If “Relaunch Chrome in Windows 8 mode”, the pink overlay screen is gone. This “pink color screen” is displayed in “Desktop mode” only.

Solution

This is caused by the old NVIDIA driver, to fix it, upgrade to the latest NVIDIA driver, for example version 335.23, released date on 3/10/2014 or newer.

Figure : NVIDIA Control Panel, system information, driver version : 335.23

chrome-pink-nvidia-fixed

Chrome GPU, chrome://gpu


Driver vendor	NVIDIA
Driver version	9.18.13.3158

Done.

References

  1. Issue 319115 : Chrome window displayed in pink
  2. Issue 328430 : No hardware acceleration support with Nvidia 9.18.13.3165 driver

4 comments on “Google Chrome displays pink color screen

  1. my google chrome, google play store, google calendar are all in pink colour, i need help. My phone name is iqoo7 legend

    Reply
  2. chrome://flags

    Set the below to DISABLED will fix this problem

    Tint GL-composited content
    Tint contents composited using GL with a shade of red to help debug and study overlay support. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android

    #tint-gl-composited-content

    Reply
  3. I just fixed it right click start button, settings, main menu. Scroll down to overide glass colour and change it to the 2nd option. Problem solved

    Reply
  4. Or you can just turn off hardware acceleration in Goggle – setting/advanced

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