Make sure you have the newest drivers for your video card. AoE3 should work
out of the box with no patches (but patches do fix the other things!). I've
got it running on several Vista machines.
Since it is happening with both games, I suspect the video driver.
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"Tom Dawg" <Tom
Dawg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have Age of Empires 3 and Civilization 4 on my computer but for some
>reason
> when I load them the mouse cursor disappears. Obviously you can not play
> the
> games without the mouse so how do I fix this?