I had the exact same problem. Are you running the VmWare player?
I started with vm's yesterday after finding this post.
For those interested:
1 - I am running a VMware workstation 12 player (non-commercial use only), with a windows 8 x64 guest (downloaded iso tool from microsoft to create a install iso)
2 - downloaded PoE (inside the guest vm), installed it, had same issue.
Eventually I solved it (did several things but I'm pretty sure this did the trick):
3 - Install the VmWare Tools, see picture. (this installs proper virtual machine - 'grafics drivers' or something which I guess is the issue here)
Vmware-tools Installation was a bit confusing so pay attention as it gives some pop ups inside the vm window - or end up like me and restarting the installation several times and end up feeling stupid.
I did try to (re-)install the Directx9, but that's not encouraged or something (only in special cases like old games...)
But can be done by downloading the "sdk directx libraries" from microsoft - again I can't remember this solving it.
my 2 cents, good luck
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