Serum 2 (Xfer Records)

Status: confirmed broken · last checked 2026-08-10

Second-hand reports, not a compatibility guarantee — nobody here retested this. Read the caution before relying on it.

Broken on stock Wine: the GUI is black while audio keeps working. Serum 2 needs Direct2D 1.3, which Wine does not implement.

Caveats and fixes

Two independent reporters, a year apart, describe the same failure.
Partial results with Xfer's own Wine configuration keys; reported working on Wine patched with d2d1/dcomp support.
Serum 1 is a separate entry — it works with fixes.

Date	Report	Environment	Source
2025-03-19	Serum 2 graphical issues	unspecified	#413 (open, reported by drac-dot-gay)
2026-04-27	Serum 2 no GUI	Bitwig 6.0, Wine Staging 11.7, yabridge 5.1.1-7	#476 (open, reported by smallghostbigthot)
2026-08-10	Patched Wine adding Direct2D 1.3 and `dcomp.dll`	any host	wine-d2d1-dcomp