Set more generous minimums. Flicker seems to have nothing to do with minimum size. I get it even for fairly large dimensions after scaling down from a much larger size. Similar to issues with zoom from about a month ago, before unc0rr fixed them.
/*
** $Id: lfunc.h,v 2.4.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Auxiliary functions to manipulate prototypes and closures
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lfunc_h
#define lfunc_h
#include "lobject.h"
#define sizeCclosure(n) (cast(int, sizeof(CClosure)) + \
cast(int, sizeof(TValue)*((n)-1)))
#define sizeLclosure(n) (cast(int, sizeof(LClosure)) + \
cast(int, sizeof(TValue *)*((n)-1)))
LUAI_FUNC Proto *luaF_newproto (lua_State *L);
LUAI_FUNC Closure *luaF_newCclosure (lua_State *L, int nelems, Table *e);
LUAI_FUNC Closure *luaF_newLclosure (lua_State *L, int nelems, Table *e);
LUAI_FUNC UpVal *luaF_newupval (lua_State *L);
LUAI_FUNC UpVal *luaF_findupval (lua_State *L, StkId level);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_close (lua_State *L, StkId level);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeproto (lua_State *L, Proto *f);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeclosure (lua_State *L, Closure *c);
LUAI_FUNC void luaF_freeupval (lua_State *L, UpVal *uv);
LUAI_FUNC const char *luaF_getlocalname (const Proto *func, int local_number,
int pc);
#endif