Hmmmm, not sure what's wrong. I know that when the game originally starts I cannot use my mouse either but then I hit "Return" to get to main menu, then my mouse icon appears. I also select 2 for the music/sound option as game seems to run better. Are you sure you have run cutemouse correctly ? P.S. …

http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ I can run Elite 2 on my computer (XP) after downloading this free program which should sort out your mouse problems like magic!

Forgot to add that I can get Elit 2 to work fine! Just Elite 3 that is proving a problem!

I am having problems getting this game to work. Before I detail the problem I should probably tell you I'm not exactly knowledgable about DOS. Ok, so I actually got the game to start (an achievement in itself) but it has no music despite me using the DOS program which comes with the downloaded game, …