SonicX,
What type & model video card do you have? You will only see the exact abs I listed if you have an ATI video adapter and have the monitoring software loaded. Other Video card manufacturers supply similar utilities for adjusting directX & openGL/glide support.
Even without a utility or ati card you should be able to take theckmark off 'write combining' which may help.
It would be in the [trouble-shoot] tab. It's where you can also adjust your hardware acceleration settings.
Like I said though, most 3d card manufactures provide a utility to adjust some of the video-cards specific features of mipmmapping, dirextX, OpenGl, As well as a more advanced color management and profile. If you post your video cards make & model, I'll try to see if there is a monitoring utility available.
Btw, in my case the load image "filename",imgnum,1 is what caused (or allowed me to see something was wrong) the issue. I hadn't noticed it in other image or bitmap commands.
~zen