poe on vmware (flashing screen solution)

as it seems many people that try to run poe on a virtual machine with vmware player get the problem that the screen keeps flashing on mouse movement, which makes it unplayable. it does not only seem to be a problem in poe, it can appear with any 3d game you try to play on vmware.

i never found a solution for this issue while googling, all ive found have been various forum threads with the same issue in all different games.
so ive thought i'll share the 2 solutions ive found which fixed it for me. it are 2 scenarios and 2 different solutions:

1. i had a win7 guest installed in vmware on win7, there i could get rid of the flashing by just pressing F1 and leave the lag and fps monitors open. not much of a fix and only works in poe but that did it for me back then.

2. now im using a win7 guest in vmware on win8.1. with this config the F1 workaround didnt help anymore. ive tried and changed many things and the next thing i wanted to try is turning off the hardware acceleration but the laptop display did not allow me to change those settings. ive then stumbled over the 16/32 bit selector and gave it a try and voila, the flashing is gone. sadly it makes the whole game a bit brighter but i think that doesnt matter coz when you have to use a vm to let poe run, then you will use all the lowest settings and everything anyways. it might keep flashing after setting it to 16-bit or starting the game, if so then just wait a moment and it should stop.

hope this also works for other people coz i wasnt able to test it on another system, so dunno if its a general solution but it worked for me..

good luck.