Mouse problem

[crassulaargentae]

I have this problem with my mouse pointer not working when I play a game such as Civ4 or Eve Online. When I boot the game up, the pointer acts like it has become "disconnected" from my mouse. I can still see movement with the mouse but the pointer doesn't move with it! Generally I have to reboot a couple of times before it will work. I have the latest mouse drivers. I switched it from the mouse port to a USB port and still have the problem. Have heard from somewhere that it may be a memory leak?

Thanks in advance,

Mike


Alienware P4 2.4
1 gig mem
80 gig HD
nvidia gforce ti agp8x (yeah, its kinda old)