yeah, i am having the exact same problem, the mouse dissapears after the title screen, No black screen like others. But game.exe is there running too. (and the ~e something is there too). The game doesn't load but i can easily alt-tab and the mouse comes back. if i alt tab again the game.exe icon is there but when i switch nothing happens (well, the mouse goes away again) here is dxdiag. my vid card is Geforce 4 TI 4200... i don't use the aureal card because it has BAD winXP support... maybe i should take it out? btw i'm using AVG antivirus and zonealarm 4, but even when i exit both it still doesn't work [attachment archived by Gobalopper]