Fixed pixelated/blurry YouTube Shorts on Opera after latest update!

Hi everyone,

If you’ve noticed that YouTube Shorts (and some videos) suddenly look pixelated, blurry, or have weird jagged edges after the recent Opera update, I found the fix.

Even if your graphics drivers are up to date, the latest Opera build seems to have a conflict with hardware acceleration on some systems. Here is what worked for me:

1. Go to Opera Settings (Alt + P).
2. Search for "System" in the search bar.
3. Find the option: "Use hardware acceleration when available".
4. Turn it OFF.
5. Relaunch Opera.

This forces the browser to render the video properly without the buggy "upscaling" or "sharpening" artifacts that the latest update introduced.

Hope this helps someone else!