Monday 13 January 2020

VMware and Chrome - damaged or washed out colors or transparent backgrounds

Sometimes in the Google Crome in VMware Virtual Machine the colors are damaged or washed out or backgrounds are transparent.
For example correct:

and incorrect (background looks to be transparent):

How to solve it?
I know three methods:
1. Switch off 3D Graphics Acceleration in VMware Virtual Machine Settings (you need first shutdown the VM:

2. The worst solution: In Chrome Flags change flag "force color profile" to "scRGB linear (HDR where available)"
(write in address line chrome://flags/ and then search for "force color profile"):

3. My preferred: In Chrome Flags change flag "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" to "OpenGL"
(write in address line chrome://flags/ and then search for "ANGLE"):

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