WebGL unavailable in Chrome; "chrome://gpu" says "GPU process was unable to boot"

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When I first installed Chrome on this new laptop, WebGL worked fine on it. Now it doesn't, and I don't know what broke it. Maybe it was the fact that I installed the official AMD/Intel GPU switchable drivers from HP.

chrome://gpu says:

GPU process was unable to boot: Features are disabled upon full but not preliminary GPU info.

Any hints?

Note: WebGL works fine in Firefox.

Note: There are several questions on this site about WebGL being unavailable in Chrome, but I think none of them has the "GPU process was unable to boot" message.

Stefan Monov

Posted 2017-01-19T13:59:14.403

Reputation: 1 251

Had similar problem, this one helped: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40472961/webgl-unavailable-gpu-process-unable-to-boot

– yarl – 2017-02-01T11:16:25.903

@yarl: Thanks. Enabling "Override software rendering list" helped, but only until heavy shaders in shadertoy.com crashed my webgl a couple of times. Now webgl fully refuses to work in Chrome again, and chrome://gpu says "GPU process was unable to boot: GPU access is disabled in chrome://settings.". This is despite the "Use hardware acceleration" checkbox in settings being checked. – Stefan Monov – 2017-02-01T14:44:19.673

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