I am seeing that there are some others with this issue, but no fix response. Upon opening Cubase Elements 8(64) I get this error: “This Steinberg Product does not support ‘Basic and High Contrast Themes’ on Windows operating systems. Please use one of the ‘Aero’ themes that you can set in the Wind…

Bump. I’m now at 15 days left on my trial and have yet to be able to even open the program.

If your gfx card does not support aero you are out of luck. You could try updating the gfx driver.

Thanks for replying. I have a GTX 650 which is more than sufficient for Aero, and the drivers are up to date.

Just to clarify, you are currently using Aero and getting an error message saying that you aren’t?

That is correct. Switching to a Aero theme still gives me the error when I open Cubase.

Buried deep in one of those posts: "My problem is solved and Cubase 8 starts! [:mrgreen:] I bought a new video card but unfortunately my 60 euro’s were wasted. That didn’t do the trick. In my case I had to turn on The Desktop Window Manager Session Manager in ‘Services’. Problem solved." Search…

I just reinstalled 9.0 after a hard drive failure. It had been working fine before (Nvidia 980) and this was the first thread Google showed so I wanted to post how I fixed it to help others that encounter the problem. I first checked all the things in the knowledge base article, but all the Aero st…

Hi Folks I have had the same problem with Cubase 10 regarding high contrast issues after installation as described by other users on this forum. I know this sounds obvious but here’s how I fixed it and it now looks great without half the glare. Navigate too edit and select preferences look for use…

Does Not Support 'Basic and High Contrast"...

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raino June 8, 2016, 11:22pm 7

That’s pretty strange. I’d try uninstalling & reinstalling the GTX driver. And if that doesn’t work do the same with Cubase.

I did a search of the forums & found this