Cursor Visual IDE Breaking Bug

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Describe the Bug

The Cursor coding environment appears to be breaking (not sure how to describe it properly) when the user is not interacting with the IDE itself.

Steps to Reproduce

You just have to hover over random elements and not interact with the app and the visual bug will appear

Expected Behavior

The screen or app not breaking

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.6.21 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: fea2f546c979a0a4ad1deab23552a43568807590
Date: 2026-03-21T22:09:10.098Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. I can see the rendering corruption in the screenshot. This looks like a GPU rendering issue in the Chromium layer.

A couple of things to try:

  1. Disable hardware acceleration: Open Cursor Settings (not the editor settings) and look for Disable Hardware Acceleration, or launch Cursor with the --disable-gpu flag.

  2. Update GPU drivers: Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.

Could you also share:

  • What GPU do you have (e.g. NVIDIA, AMD, Intel integrated)?
  • What driver version is installed?

Disabling hardware acceleration usually fixes this kind of visual artifact. Let me know if it helps.

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Yup, it was indeed the GPU. It didnt cross my mind as the other applications were working fine aside from Cursor. It was only when i updated the drivers for my GPU (NVIDIA RTX3060) did the issue resolves itself. Thanks for your help

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yes, happend to me too. Please help fix it Cursor.