dots on screen

- SOLUTION BELOW - Dear Community 🙋‍♂️ I noticed some dots on my screen and some graphic "flickers", which kinda reminds me a little of artifacts. Some of these dots do appear and disappear within seconds; some stick to the graphic and even move with them while scrolling. These dots are...

I have had these strange, faint black dots for a while now. Not sure what they are. They are in a perfect line and evenly spaced apart. Seems to be only four of them about 1/3 of the way up on the screen. Other than that, I have not noticed any other problems. The display is Asus XG32VQ, 144Hz...

Every time I open certain programs, these weird dots appear progressively throughout the screen, making it increasingly annoying and unusable. The programs this happens to are Streamlabs OBS and Adobe Illustrator, I have tried reinstalling both, but it has done nothing, any suggestions/ideas...