Chrome crashing with RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE

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Hello, I’m having a consistent issue with Google Chrome on Zorin OS.
Whenever I join a Google Meet call or open Gmail, Chrome crashes and shows the error:
RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE

I’ve already increased the inotify watchers to 524288 (to fix Obsidian and other Electron apps), so that part is solved.
However, Chrome still keeps crashing.

If I disable Hardware Acceleration in Chrome, the problem completely disappears.
No crashes, no errors — everything works normally.

This strongly suggests the issue is related to the NVIDIA driver + Chrome GPU process.
My GPU is a RTX 5080, so I suspect the current driver version shipped with Zorin/Ubuntu may not be fully stable for this model.

System specs:

  • i7-12700K
  • 32 GB DDR5
  • NVIDIA RTX 5080

Does anyone know what’s causing Chrome’s GPU process to crash on Zorin OS with newer NVIDIA GPUs?
Should I install a newer driver (from the graphics-drivers PPA) or is there a known fix/flag for this?

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Welcome to the Forum!

If this works for You and You don't have any Issues resulting on doing that, I would suggest to let it disabled.

How is Chrome installed? Flatpak or .deb Version? What Nvidia Driver do You have installed? Does Your System run in Wayland or X11? You can check that with the Terminal Command echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE