so i opened tf2 and this happened

[ncba93ivyase]

[Snowy]

that's what you get for playing tf2

[bluaki]

that's what you get for searching google for "vanilla and chocolate milk" and "ã��ã,ƒã,Šãƒ¼ã�±ã�¿ã,..."

As far as I've seen, this sort of thing is pretty common. If any application allocates video memory and displays it before writing to it, it'll show you whatever was previously cached in that block of memory. Most often, this garbage video data only lasts a few seconds until the application finishes loading.

I think this is more likely with Chrome than Firefox because of the differing ways they handle video buffers with tabs and processes.

[ncba93ivyase]

that's what you get for searching google for "vanilla and chocolate milk" and "ã��ã,ƒã,Šãƒ¼ã�±ã�¿ã,..."

As far as I've seen, this sort of thing is pretty common. If any application allocates video memory and displays it before writing to it, it'll show you whatever was previously cached in that block of memory. Most often, this garbage video data only lasts a few seconds until the application finishes loading.

I think this is more likely with Chrome than Firefox because of the differing ways they handle video buffers with tabs and processes.

it never happened before and it lasted about a minute

and all these tabs had been long closed and i was assuming those regions of memory would've been overwritten by something more recent at that point lol