Hi Leonard, it sounds like something not going right with VMware's Direct3D emulation.

One thing you might try is adjusting the settings inside VMware for how much memory they allow for Direct3D to use.

If by default they only allow a small amount of memory, that could cause problems. Try moving the amount of memory available to Direct3D to something like 64MB or 128MB and that may possibly help.

Other than that it sounds like a problem was introduced in the Direct3D emulation code in VMware in the newer version. You may need to go back to the version that works, or run MoI using boot camp instead of VMware.

- Michael