Stability: Large areas of GameMaker flicker white/black in 2024.4.0 on some AMD GPU laptops which use DPI overrides above 100%

[gm-bug-reporter[bot]]

Description

The IDE will flicker across the top bar or more with a giant white box during work. The issue was on the [2024.4.0] release of GM. I had to revert back to [2024.2) for the bug to go away.

Steps To Reproduce

Just opening IDE causes the issue.

Which version of GameMaker are you reporting this issue for?

IDE v2024.4.0.

Which operating system(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 10.0.22631.0

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[YYDan]

Can see from the log that it's presumably Apr24 that had the issue, as the log starts and ends with runs of Feb24, but there is a brief bit of Apr24 in the middle. Have updated the values above, as it originally looked like the bug was in Feb.

Dark skin [08:45:04:210(8b99)] FNA-Info: FNA3D Driver: D3D11 [08:45:04:210(8b99)] FNA-Info: D3D11 Adapter: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics [08:45:04:310(8b99)] DPI setting:(120,120) Native:(120,120) Window:(1920,991) Max Suggested DPI:201 [08:45:32:732(8b99)] StartScreen Init: Display Size w:1920 h:991 dpiScale:1.25 Windows 10 Appears to be a laptop, according to GM

Can't see any error message or anything which indicates a drawing problem.

Interestingly, the first run after reinstalling 2024.2 is the only thing which shows a bad value: [09:11:46:550(44a9)] StartScreen Init: Display Size w:0 h:0 dpiScale:1.25

After that first run, it goes back to setting the same 1920, 991, 1.25 as Apr.

[YYDan]

5834 is also an AMD CPU+GPU Win10 laptop user, so have updated the title. Is using Feb/Apr Betas, rather than monthlies, but other than that all looks very similar.

Only real difference is a higher-res screen and higher DPI override also: [19:56:00:469(8333)] StartScreen Init: Display Size w:2880 h:1755 dpiScale:2

Again, no graphics errors I can see, but lots of firewall errors (which the first log has a bit of also) - might just be coincidence.