I had the same problem of screen flickering or tearing, not only in Chrome but also in wine Warcraft III in opengl mode(D3D mode works fine), and by removing package xserver-xorg-video-intel as #11 gave, every thing just works perfectly so far.
I use this link to test, http://animated-gifs-funny.tumblr.com/archive, mentioned by https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152#c44, confirmed after the fix the problem is gone. My system is HP xps15, Intel skylake i7-6500u, Linux mint 18, kernel 4.4.0-21-generic. >From what apt show xserver-xorg-video-intel tells it seems it is safe to >remove the package if your hw is new enough. " This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-intel driver module. . The use of this driver is discouraged if your hw is new enough (ca. 2007 and newer). You can try uninstalling this driver and let the server use it's builtin modesetting driver instead. " -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1586539/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
