I recently added an iMac with 8Gb Ram, and I use VMWare due to a need to run an oracle database and some of the Oracle utilities. To my horror, the repaint on the XP VM was marginal, and I often found myself doing double takes at the things I had written (more than the usual amount anyway).
I tried mucking with the 3D Acceleration on the VM Settings, but that didn't have any effect.
What did the trick was modifying the settings on the Windows VM - in this case XP.
Under Control Panel / Display Settings / Settings Tab
click the Advanced Button
Goto the Troubleshoot Tab
Adjust the Hardware acceleration down one notch.
Restart your VM.
No more double takes due to missing pixels.
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