Originally posted by tomservo6 When I try to load the game by itself in Win2000, when I move my mouse the cursor just fickers and every once in awhile jumps to another area of the screen.
Yep, that sounds about right. Even if you choose PC-Speaker only, you get the same response (IOW, it's not a sound-related issue).
I put the dos driver in a seperate autoexec as part of a dos shortcut for the program, like you would for sound card settings, etc. That is when it gives me the com3 error.
None of that matters. You are running on an NT OS, you have no DOS. The best that you can hope for is that you won't cause new trouble by loading the driver. DOS drivers are useless in NT.
If you are running a DOS emulation program, you might be able to use these tools, but don't count on it. For example, there is no point trying to load a mouse driver in DosBox.
I don't really want to reconfigure my whole computer by having a dual boot system just for one game. I just am trying to find a way to get the mouse working.
Don't be surprised if you come across others that have problems like this (or worse). There a number of titles that simply will not run properly on a NT OS. I can actually play it on mine, it's just intensely annoying waiting for the mouse (and sometimes the keyboard) to respond.
You can wait for protected mode in DosBox, just be aware that may be a loong time.