How to remove artifacts in the new version of IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 (under Windows with a scale other than 100%)

Not long ago, our favorite development environment, IntelliJ IDEA, was updated to a new version. This brought a lot of changes, However, some users may have noticed the following problem: IDEA 2018.1 does not display correctly if the scale is not set to 100% in Windows . Users began to observe artifacts when displaying fonts and images. Here's how to solve this problem:

1. Go to the folder where IDEA is installed. By default it is "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2018.1\bin".


2. Open “Properties” (Settings) of the file “idea.exe” (if you are using the 32-bit version) or “idea64.exe” (if you are using the 64-bit version).


3. In properties, go to the Compatibility tab.


4. Check the “Override high-resolution scaling mode” property. Scaling is performed by:" (Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:) and select "System" from the drop-down list.


5. Click "OK" to save the settings.