Flickering color bands within apps - M2 macOS

adi9090 · 04-25-2025, 10:00 AM

The same issue is happening to me with AndroidStudio, so this might be a combination of DisplayLink and Jetbrains tools.

What I noticed is the color shift with the default Darcula theme and after that it looks like the content shown is getting pixelated for a few seconds, and it gets back to the normal state. I'm using UGREEN Revodock 209 with the latest DisplayLink drivers 1.12.1 build 54 with display port cables. This is happening with M2 Pro 16GB RAM and M3 Pro 36GB RAM laptops running MacOS 15.4.1

Both of AndroidStudio and PyCharm are up to date and I'm using the latest version of these IDEs.

Below is the video that shows the pixelation issue, it is mostly visible with the Firefox icon and two screenshots of Firefox and PyCharm icons where you can see clear degradation in image quality.
GDrive video URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TdN...usp=drive_link
GDrive images URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihr...usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jv8...usp=drive_link

This is the GDrive URL to the DisplayLink tool for collecting logs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oU...usp=drive_link

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04-25-2025, 10:00 AM	#3
adi9090 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2025 Posts: 2	The same issue is happening to me with AndroidStudio, so this might be a combination of DisplayLink and Jetbrains tools. What I noticed is the color shift with the default Darcula theme and after that it looks like the content shown is getting pixelated for a few seconds, and it gets back to the normal state. I'm using UGREEN Revodock 209 with the latest DisplayLink drivers 1.12.1 build 54 with display port cables. This is happening with M2 Pro 16GB RAM and M3 Pro 36GB RAM laptops running MacOS 15.4.1 Both of AndroidStudio and PyCharm are up to date and I'm using the latest version of these IDEs. Below is the video that shows the pixelation issue, it is mostly visible with the Firefox icon and two screenshots of Firefox and PyCharm icons where you can see clear degradation in image quality. GDrive video URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TdN...usp=drive_link GDrive images URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihr...usp=drive_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jv8...usp=drive_link This is the GDrive URL to the DisplayLink tool for collecting logs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oU...usp=drive_link