Hello.

I've attempted some other fixes such as enabling and disabling fullscreen optimisations, and fiddling with my mouse's polling rate to see if that had any effect. Perhaps it was something that broke briefly after a windows update because I found that turning the disable fullscreen optimisations' on and off seems to have addressed the disappearing cursor issue, but has returned the small stuttering issues that I had sought to eliminate initially. The actual size of the cursor seems to influence the rate of stuttering, with the 'normal' size contributing almost nothing, but the 'large' and 'maximum' sizes creating their own micro stutters when appearing and disappearing. This leads me to believe that it is ultimately a graphics issue, and I can only hope that a future driver update will address this.

Thank you for your time in troubleshooting.