Flare 10 screen refresh issues

[djohnson]

I am running Flare 10.0.1 on a VM. The VM is Win7 Pro 64 bit, 8GB RAM. It is hosted on VMWare Fusion 6.0.2, running on a quad-core Mac with OS X 10.7.4, 16GB total RAM. (The VM is set to use 2 cores.)

Portions of the UI disappear whenever I do something. During initial registration, most of the dialog was not drawn, but the controls (checkboxes and buttons) were. Opening Preference showed the same thing, and clicking within the dialog made the title bar appear. Dragging the dialog around, huge chunks (usually rectangular) would disappear or reappear.

When I open a project, nothing is shown in the Content Explorer until I press F5. When I switch to Project Explorer, again I have to press F5. Switch back, press F5 again.

I was reviewing Flare 10 on a different Mac and a different VM and didn't see this problem, but this is my production system so I need to get it going.

Any suggestions?

(I couldn't have had a worse difference between evaluation and production systems: my production Mac Mini is 2 years old, running OS X 10.7, on with the VM on Win7 VMWare Fusion. My eval iMac has 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, running Mavericks 10.9.2, VM on Win8.1 on Parallels. While I can upgrade my production system to Mavericks, I don't think I'll be able to change any of the rest…)

Thanks for any suggestions at all!

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Update:

I turned off "Accelerate 3D Graphics" in the VM settings and, after waiting an eternity for Win 7 to restart, this has improved things A LOT.

I don't do anything that requires DirectX (I don't think I do anyway…) so this is a viable solution, so long as it works.