Seems like there is a bug in Chrome for Windows users with some models of the integrated Intel GPUs. As a result, OHIF and/or Cornerstone3D demos may experience rendering issues, with the GPU process consuming an excessive amount of memory for volume viewports. As a result, the webGL context may be lost and the browser crashes.

The bug has been narrowed down to be inside the Chrome and not from us, more especifically the Angle backend component of Chromium. While we are working on reporting this bug, we have a solution that has proven to be effective in fixing this issue which has worked on 4 separate machines having the same issue.

1. Ensure that your GPU is not blacklisted by your browser. To enable ignore-blacklist, go to chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist and enable it. We have one machine who had NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and it was blacklisted.
2. Next, make sure that your browser is configured to use one of the following:

• Angle with the latest available WebGL backend (options are: d3d11on12, vulkan)
• Angle with OpenGL

For Chrome users, you can change your angle value by going to chrome://flags/#use-angle and changing the value as described.

(Note that your selected Angle must be supported by your graphics card and driver. While Chrome and Firefox will always display available options, it's important to check that your selected Angle is compatible with your machine.)

🎸 Special thanks to Rodolfo (@ladeirarodolfo )for finding this solution and sharing it with the community! 🎸
🎸 Special thanks to the QIPCM team who helped us thoroughly debug this on various Windows machines. 🎸

PS:

• d3d11 is different than d3d11on12, use d3d11on12 if you have it
• For edge browser, you can set the same flag using edge://flags/#use-angle
• For Mac users, we recommend using Default Angle settings.
• Firefox users, please navigate to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers and refer to the section "How to force enable...." to enable ignore-blacklist.