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Hello.  I have been using this site for a couple of months now.  Occasionally, my chess board display corrupts, showing a lot of pixelation.  This makes the pieces hard to see, impacting timed online play.  If I refresh the browser, the board display clears up.  That is less than ideal for a couple reasons - the time it takes during timed play (and the break in thought flow), and the fact that the refresh resets any game analysis I was walking through.  Has anyone else seen this issue, and have you found a way to prevent it?

(I am using a Windows desktop machine with Chrome browser.  I tried MS Edge and saw the same issue.)

Thanks in advance.

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sleubner wrote:

Hello. I have been using this site for a couple of months now. Occasionally, my chess board display corrupts, showing a lot of pixelation. This makes the pieces hard to see, impacting timed online play. If I refresh the browser, the board display clears up. That is less than ideal for a couple reasons - the time it takes during timed play (and the break in thought flow), and the fact that the refresh resets any game analysis I was walking through. Has anyone else seen this issue, and have you found a way to prevent it?

(I am using a Windows desktop machine with Chrome browser. I tried MS Edge and saw the same issue.)

Thanks in advance.

What is your piece set, animation style, and do you have hardware acceleration enabled for the browser?

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Thanks for the quick follow-up.

I do have the option to use graphics acceleration when available enabled in Chrome.

I have tried various piece sets with the same results, but I typically use the Neo set. Also, I use various board styles, also with the same results. I have found that another way to clear up the corruption is to change board styles when it happens. That does take time away from timed games still, but it does at least allow for game reviews to continue.

Piece animation is set to Medium (Default).

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For anyone else seeing this issue, I followed Google Gemini advice and disabled hardware acceleration within my Chrome browser settings. I have not seen this issue since then.

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That was going to be my suggestion but didn't see your reply until just now meh