Hi Kevin, it is not unusual for laptops (even new ones) to have limited video hardware, so it is possible that is the problem.

It is probably a limitation of the amount of memory available to the video card. Those images are created using textures, and the texture image has to be uploaded to the card. If there isn't enough video memory to hold the entire texture image, you would see something like you show there.

If your image is pretty large, it is also possible that the old desktop's limitations are actually helping in this case - it is possible that your desktop video card reports a lower maximum texture size than your laptop. When MoI sees that a video card does not support a higher resolution texture, MoI will resize the image down to fit within what the video card supports, which will have the side effect of taking less video memory. It is possible that your laptop reports that it supports a high resolution image but in reality does not have quite enough free video memory to actually handle it.

Probably the way to solve it would be to reduce the size of the image in an image processing program before inserting it into MoI. Bring it down to something like 1024x768 resolution and I would think it would probably work then.

- Michael