Publisher: Text flickering while typing in a connected text frame

[mala]

In the last few days I had to type a lot in Affinity Publisher (instead of just pasting text from other sources). And I found something really annoying: Whenever I type inside a text frame that is connected to another text frame, all the text flickers. This does not happen when typing inside a text frame that is not connected to another.

I see this behaviour on my internal display as well as on my external Eizo. In the screen recording below I set zoom to 100% to exculude possible errors from downsampling. 

I searched the forums but didn't find anything. So it could be possible that this is only a problem on my machine:

MacBook Air M1, 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, MacOS Ventura 13.6
Affinity Publisher v2.1.1

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[Lee D]

@mala If you open the apps Settings > Performance check to see if Hardware Acceleration is turned OFF. If not, turn off and restart the app and try the same workflow again to see if the same occurs. If it does, open the Performance options again and try changing the Display and Retina Rendering options instead.

[mala]

Turning off Metal compute acceleration did not help. Neither did changing Display to OpenGL or Software. 

But changing Retina Rendering to High quality did the trick (or changing it to Low quality). Text only flickers when I have it on «Automatic (Best)». It looks to me that with «Automatic» the display switches between high and low quality while I type. 

Are there any disadvantages with retina rendering set to «High quality»?