Blinking cursor trailing black boxes

[Seafury888]

I use a GF4 TI 4200 on a P4 2.4 ghz w/ 512 DDR ram. I recently bought Eve Online and installed it. When I opened the game I started having graphics problems such as my mouse cursor is constantly flickering and when I drag it around it leaves a trail of black boxes behind it. Turns out the problem can be fixed when you play the game in windowed mode, but thats the only solution I've found.
Anyway, I uninstalled the game and went back to playing DAOC. Now I have the same problem with DAOC. It was never an issue before playing Eve. I reinstalled the latest drivers for my vid card. I reinstalled dx 9 multiple times. I even went back to dx 8.1 and it didn't help. I use windows xp pro by the way. I tried changing resolutions on my desktop and in game to no avail and am at my wits end. I even reinstalled my mouse drivers. My refresh rate is set at 85 Hz and I've changed my colors from 16 bit to 32 bit and back again. I don't have this problem with all my games...just DAOC and EVE when it was installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Seafury

 

[8humhum8]

i know that many games change the mouse support to software, and it causes problems - after i enabled "avarage mouse inputs on last two frames to smoothen movements" on counter strike, my mouse began shaking even on desktop after i unistalled the game. i wasnt too concerned about it, but when i upgraded my OS to win 2k it went away.

so id try uninstalling the mouse from device manager, DELETING the drivers (thats important!) and then shut down, unplug and replug the mouse if its on PS/2! - but if its on usb dont worry wbout it, and then just wait for windows to detect it and install drivers. you may need the original windows disk btw, so prepare it!

if you dont want to deal with drivers and disks, just uninstall it and then restart. windows will detect the mouse and set it up again.