Google Chrome Full Black Screen

If it happens in Chrome version > 45.x,

(1) try: System | Settings | Advanced settings
     uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available", restart chrome.

(2) If (1) doesn't help, restart your computer

(3) If the black screen still occurs, try Chrome Cleanup Tool to reset your chrome.
     https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/


if you can't see the chrome://flags because everything is black, and you don't want to revert your graphic driver as @wilfo did, then you can run google-chrome --disable-gpu from the console.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/chromium-doesn%27t-work-after-update-4175522748/


Same thing just happened to me on Google Chrome v22.0.1221.1 (Nvidia GPU). The workaround was to disable GPU compositing on all pages (setting available on chrome://flags/)

If it happens in Chrome version > 45.x, See answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/32955808/293023 by @detale.

Use google-chrome -disable-gpu from the command line to temporary disable gpu.


You can turn off GPU usage by Chrome without Windows restart in safe mode. Options:

1) by inserting section in Chrome config file "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State":

"hardware_acceleration_mode": { "enabled": false },

2) chrome.exe --disable-gpu