I've just installed MM7 on my XP virtual machine. The graphics are constantly screwed up in the game screen - it constantly flickers back and forth to the previous one. If I click on a character and go to that menu it goes away, but only until I leave that screen. Any help?

It also only runs in a window and not full screen, but that isn't an issue (if someone knows how to fix that though it'd be appreciated).

There are three common things to try:

1. If you use two graphic cards disable SLI/CrossFire in the graphics card control panel. If you have an onboard and a discrete graphics card disable one of them.

2. Use Grayface's patch
https://sites.google.com/site/sergroj/mm#TOC-GrayFace-MM7-Patch-v1.6.2

3. Disable 2D acceleration for the game in the registry
Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/New World Computing/Might and Magic VII/1.0
If you've got a 64bit Windows, it's found under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Wow6432node/Software/....
the path there might vary slightly depending on your system.

There you'll find '2dacceloff', change its value to 1.

I've installed the patch. Nothing has come of it. Also the value was already one (although I'm running the GOG version and it doesn't have that).

Attached is a screenshot in mid-flicker.

Maybe it's a problem with hardware acceleration, as it has to be passed through VMware to your graphics driver. Graphics acceleration can be tricky in virtual machines, try to turn it off.

Thanks. Do you know a way to do that?

Following those instructions worked. THank you!

You're welcome!