If you're running Ableton Live 11 on Linux via Wine, you may have encountered black rectangles all over the place, or even the whole screen is flickering.

The following option fixed it for Ableton and the Plugins "Saturn" and "Fabfilter". But "Serum" is still affected. Maybe Serum uses a different GUI rendering backend.

Solution

1. cd ~/.wine/drive_c/users/{user}/AppData/Roaming/Ableton/Live 11.3.42/Preferences/
2. create a new file: options.txt
3. Append the line: -_ForceGdiBackend

I don't know if the following information is relevant for you, but this is my systems overview:

• Arch Linux
• X11
• Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
• wine-staging
• winecfg: added library "dxgi (native, builtin)"

I hope it helped :)