I’ve just bought Cubase Elements 9.5 today and the VST Amp Rack has a strange dark shape over the left-hand side of its interface which makes it almost impossible to see what lies beneath. Also the interface flickers when I move the mouse over it. There are no other tracks or plugins enabled.
Windows 10 Pro x64 , AsRock G41M - VS3 motherboard, 8 GB RAM, ESI Maya 44e soundcard (quite an old setup but it meets the listed system requirements)