623876 - [D3D9] weird graphics with GeForce 7 series GPUs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I sometimes start seeing weird graphics in my nightly firefox:
http://imgur.com/eHkjs

it seems to be related to memory:
http://i.imgur.com/HbqRo.png

how can i debug this or help in tracking down

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110106 Firefox/4.0b9pre

from about:support

  Graphics

        Adapter Description
        NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

        Vendor ID
        10de

        Device ID
        01d1

        Adapter RAM
        Unknown

        Adapter Drivers
        nv4_disp

        Driver Version
        6.14.12.6099

        Driver Date
        10-16-2010

        Direct2D Enabled
        false

        DirectWrite Enabled
        false

        WebGL Renderer
        NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce 7300 LE/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! -- 2.1.2

      GPU Accelerated Windows
      1/1 Direct3D 9

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

reloading about:memory just shows that win32/privatebytes, win32/workingset keeps increasing

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>how can i debug this or help in tracking down
Testing without addons is one thing and another would be to disable the hardware acceleration in tools/options/advanced/general. A third thing would be to disable TM/JM in about:config or you could do all 3 things together with starting Firefox in the Firefox safemode.

Comment 3

[annihilannic]

I find this happens frequently when I alt-tab out of a Direct3D application (using 4.0RC1 under WinXPSP3 with nVidia 7600GT).  Is it the same for you?

Comment 4

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

This is worrysome. This could be a bug in the D3D9 backend, but I'd expect more people to be seeing it, I wonder if this is a driver/device combination issue, in that case we could blacklist. (or as far as I can see it -could- still be non-D3D9 related, but it sounds unlikely)

Comment 5

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

@ annihilannic: can you please share your GPU information? Go to about:support, copy, paste here the Graphics section.

Comment 6

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

...and meanwhile, we already see that the two reports here are both on Geforce 7 series GPUs.

Comment 7

[annihilannic]

Apologies, I had forgotten I had upgraded to an 8600GTS:

Graphics

Adapter Description:     NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Vendor ID:               10de
Device ID:               0400
Adapter RAM:             Unknown
Adapter Drivers:         nv4_disp
Driver Version:          6.14.12.6099
Driver Date:             10-16-2010
Direct2D Enabled:        false
DirectWrite Enabled:     false (0.0.0.0, font cache n/a)
WebGL Renderer:          Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.541)
GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 9

Video memory is 256MB. Is there a Firefox build number somewhere?  All I can find is:

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Comment 8

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

I'm marking this bug as WONTFIX per bug #1318558 and bug #1343941.