Screen flickering on high refresh monitors

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josefreak
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Screen flickering on high refresh monitors

Post by josefreak » Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:39 pm

This has been bothering me ever since I purchased Live 10 (now L11). So just wanted to leave the solution in case someone else is having this problem. I dug around a bit and this has worked for me on Windows 10 (probably works for macOS as well):

- Close Live and navigate to Live's preferences folder. On Windows it's c:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live [current version]\Preferences and create an Options.txt file. (macOS preferences folder location is different)

- Open the file and add the line: -_ForceGdiBackend

- Save, close that file, and relaunch Live

This has worked for me. What I don't understand is why they haven't fixed this in L11 when it has been a problem at least since L10 was released.

alchemist2000
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Re: Screen flickering on high refresh monitors

Post by alchemist2000 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:51 am

Thanks I'm having the same flickering on my new monitor. comes and goes but only happens in Ableton.
2016 MacBook Pro plugged into LG FULL HD Display
21.5-inch (1920 x 1080) 60hz refresh rate
Radeon Pro 460 4 GB graphics

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