External Monitor Flickering when Chrome is running

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I have a new macbook, v 10.14.3. It is connected to two external monitors — both of them DELL which are connected via a DELL docking station using mini Displayport cables which came with them.

My monitor is blickering sporadically and I am mostly certain that it only happens when I use Chrome browser (in particular when I open a new tab or load a new webpage). But on the other hand both monitors including the one where browser window is not launched are flickering.

Any way to solve this? I did find a link suggesting resetting SMC — but did not try it out as I could not make any sense why such an act would resolve it if it happens only for Chrome

Best Answer

I reset System Management Controller as suggested here. (for macbook touchbar, make sure that you really press the power button, not just touch it).

But this did not seem to help as problems reoccured. What seem to have helped now is disabling hardware accelerations for Chrome browser. Go to chrome://settings and disable it and that could solve the problem