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Asked: 2014-06-21 13:34:55 +0800 CST

Street view goes to black in google maps

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My street view in google maps stopped working in a recent update. It starts ok, and I can rotate the view, but when I move to another location I only get a black screen, and need to reenter googlemaps from the front page to get normal view again

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4 Answers

  1. Go to "chrome://flags" in your browser. There, under Experiments enable "Override software rendering list" and enable the "Disable WebGL" option and relaunch the browser.

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  2. This isn't really a solution to the problem, but more like a band-aid. If you click on the "?" help-bubble icon, you can select the option to use the classic Google maps. That seemed to work for me using Chrome on Linux -Version 36.0.1985.125 .

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  3. Ok, I have the same problems. Seems to be a Google+Firefox problem.

    Google has no "whitelisted" Firefox on Linux for the new Google Maps.

    But you can force it using this link: https://www.google.com/maps/preview/?force=webgl

    Using that address I can see Street View without black screen!

    You can read a little more here: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3031966?hl=en

    Using this complete WebGL Google maps seems to work fine. A little slow compared with Chromium, but that's okay.

    You can also «play» with the acceleration and WebGL settings from Firefox: webgl.force-enabled webgl.msaa-force layers.acceleration.force-enabled

    from about:config

    I have an AMD/intel hybrid card on Dell 3450. But on AMD and Intel seems to work fine.

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  4. Disabling Chrome's hardware acceleration fixed this issue for me.

    To do this [version 41.x]:

    1. Go to Settings then scroll down and click Show advanced settings…
    2. Scroll down further and look for the option Use hardware acceleration when available. Make sure the option is un-checked.
    3. Reload your browser and that’s it. You can now see the black screen is already gone.

    Link for a full walkthrough: http://learn.yancyparedes.net/2014/08/fixing-google-maps-black-screen-display-on-google-chrome-running-on-ubuntu-14-04/

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