Just got a new HP laptop, hoping that the latest graphics card would help speed up GEM rendering. While picture color quality has improved, speed hasn't. More importantly, one of my favorite effects - the ripple - doesn't seem to work properly anymore. It just jiggles the whole picture around without deforming it like it used to on my old XP machine.
Argh. I feel like i have an expensive Vista paperweight now. Any suggestions on getting my ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card to talk nicely to GEM, or tweaking the ripple object to actually ripple?

Ah! Fixed my own problem - not an issue with the graphics card at all! Apparently, to get the watery ripple effect, you have to 'clamp to edge' and/or set the rectangle -texturing via the [pix_texture] object (see the help on this). Playing with these settings gets more of the ripple distortion effect i was looking for.
Whew! Now that vista paperweight has redeemed its value (for now)!