Okay, so I barely know how to describe this problem accurately, and I don't know if it's already been covered because I don't know what keywords to use to look for posts relating to it that don't just direct me to instructions on how to rotate or flip the image I'm working on.
I just upgraded to v3.1.4 on a Lenovo Thinkpad 2 (windows 8, 32 bit), and I was all excited to get down on some animating when I noticed that the canvas template loaded upside down, and I thought I must have hit a button on my keyboard and accidentally rotated the canvas or something, but that's apparently not what's going on...? It's like Krita has flipped and mirrored the canvas window to the point where, for example, if I draw a brush stroke down with my pen, the line draws up. My overview window shows the canvas correctly, but the canvas itself is just not displaying or registering my pen properly at all. Restarting the program does not work.

I have no clue what's going on here, I've never seen an art program do this before and I've been at this for literally the last 11 years.
Is this maybe to do with my graphics card? Or maybe the operating system itself? Or is this tablet perhaps just too dated to actually function with this software? I'll be sad if I have to retrograde and give up the animation feature, that's literally the only reason I upgraded from 2.9.

Please haaaaalp. Krita is my favourite digital art program ever, and I've used a LOT of them.
I needs me a fix.
Please and Thank you
~Kay

I don't really get what you're trying to describe -- it sounds like the tablet driver is flipped, though. Krita itself can only horizontally mirror the canvas, and in any case, the cursor should move normally when the canvas mirror is active. Could you make a video or something?

https://youtu.be/2J8_jvOtSdA
Sorry about the background noise i have toddlers. I also just woke up so that's why i probably sound weird.

There is some weird stuff going on with your canvas. Weird blocks of transparency. That isually means OpenGL driver problems. Could you try to turn OpenGL off and see if the problem goes away

As a matter of fact, it did. So should I just keep using it like this, or is there an update I can do? Does it matter? I'm not used to using programs that run on OpenGL.

You don't have to have OpenGL. It makes a few things faster like rotating the canvas and image rendering when you are zoomed out.

Usually for fixing it, you can figure out what graphics card you have and look through the internet to find an updated driver. Usually what comes with an OS is outdated.

Thank you! I really appreciate the help. YAY ANIMATE.