As Impboy has said, HW accel is a problem with GIM. It seems to be activated by default in the .exe file, it simply overwrites the registry entries. I had the same problem. The only solution for me was to disable hardware acceleration in windows (I have windows 7). This is only easy with certain graphics cards, because some lock the option for windows. What I had to do was download the DirectX developer toolkit and use it to globally disable hardware accel for my computer. Now it works like a charm.
Here are the corresponding topics for win7, 8 and 10:
Turn of hardware accel the easy way (if possible):
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/hardwa...tion-windows-7 (the solution "if button greyed out" here didn't work for me)
What I had to do:
1.) Download the direct X SDK from microsoft,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=6812
2.) run %programfiles%\microsoft directx sdk\utilities\bin\x86\dxcpl.exe
3.) go to "Direct Draw", there I could disable Hardware Acceleration (or direct draw acceleration, I don't quite remember)
Note that you will obviously have to enable it in the same way if you want to run some programs that need HW acceleration.