Go into options and switch the cursor over to hardware cusrsor and not the game one. This should rectify the problem for you

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You should look into making sure those are the latest drivers for your card. I dont know about ATI but Nvidia has put out 3 already in '06.

"I don't think it will help, therefore I will never try it, despite when others tell me it very well might help" is rarely the path to fixing your problem.

BTW, GC2 hasn't bene out long at all. Certainly not long enough for it to have specific notes in drivers. BTW, newer drivers from both ATI and nVidia do help older cards too. They're still the same basic architcture as the newer cards, just less so.

Just to give some feedback on this problem:

Mouse cursor flicker: when I started having crashes, I changed my setting for hardware acceleration. I had read somewhere that this could help resolve crashes. You can access these via Control Panel -> Display icon -> Settings tab -> Advanced Button -> Troubleshoot tab. I moved the setting 2 notch at the left from Full Hardware acceleration. This IS the source of my mouse flicker problem. I reset these settings to full and i DON'T have any mice problems anymore. So everyone, be carefull about changing these settings on a whim, like I did. My bad.

I then went back to the basics. I know I wrote CTD implying a crash-to-desktop, but this was not really what was happening to me. I was having a blue screen crash, and not a CTD. This is an important difference. A CTD implies the program failing and exiting with error, without causing problem to the OS. This usually implies faulty programming and bugs. A blue screen implies a memory issue since the whole computer fails. This can happen due to faulty devices or faulty drivers for those devices.

In the past, a year ago to be precise, I had problem with my RAM. We usually don't need to go into the bios to configure the settings for our hardware. In my case, that wasn't true anymore. My RAM settings were all set to AUTO, as they should since everything is plug-and-play now. Last year, I had to manually set all the RAM settings to their specifications in order to resolve my crashes. In theory this shouldn't have changed anything but it did.

This made me thinking, what if I was having RAM problems again? So I went back to my bios and reduced the performance settings for my RAM. I increase for CAS from 2 to 3, my RAS from 2 to 3, etc... Bingo! I haven't had a blue screen crash since then. Of course, the side effect is my computer is now running below specs. But at least, it's not crashing.

So I might have resolved my blue screen crash issue. This weekend will be crucial since this is the time I play most. By next monday, I'll post some more to keep you guys posted. Maybe this will inspire some of you to do similar testing on your PC, especially the one experiencing blue screen crashes.

Lastly, about my old sound drivers, those are the lastest available for my device. I'm using an integrated chipset on my M/B for sound, in case you're wondering.

If you want to manually test your RAM and have a spare CD go Here and download an iso burn the IMAGE to disc, reboot, set your bios to boot from CD and let it run for about 3 repetitions, any errors at all means you're timings are out of whack or the RAM itself is whacked.
I've got the 9600 card as well but the XT model with the 6.3 drivers w/o CCC but the old 5.9 or 5.11(can't remember) control panel lol and it doesn't crash at all except about 25% of the time when re-entering the game after alt tabbing out of it, or trying to save an obsolete or previously deleted ship design with the same name as one in the savegame file.