I should clarify the flicker effect only happens when navigating to the VM which is in full screen mode. It doesn't even happen every time, are you sure I should follow all those instructions? My iMac has 4 cores, 32GB RAM, 2GB video ram. Currently 2 CPU cores allocated to the VM, 16GB RAM and 1GB video RAM. Nothing bad happened until I upgraded to Parallels Desktop 13, which leads me to think a fix is needed.