Unwanted Mouse trails

I have a 1.2GHZ AMD Athlon running a MAtrox Mellenium G450 with 512 MB of RAM.

For some reason my mouse leaves trails accross the scrren when I’m using Blender 3D.

Any suggestions?

Do you have “Mouse Trails” turned on by any chance?

does turning off drop shadow help?

Hmm…

I increased my hardware excelleration to Maximum, and it got rid of the problem…Things also seem to be running much faster now…

Does anyone have a list of optimal settings to make Blender run as fast as possible?

I know that my graphics card isn’t the best for this application, but it is still usable…

What can I do to make the best of what I currently have?