If MOO2 wasent such a great game i would have totally given up on it by now

my stuped mouse kept freezing in the game so i downloaded the latest drivers and now it freezes up way way more often its the microsoft intellimouse explorer. also after playing for a few mins the screen will go all black were i couldent see anything cept planets and some buttons (the sidebard, map and all the bottom buttons were gone)

i neee to fix this game or i'll go crazy from not playing it. i'm on windows 2000 and i got the nvidia tnt2 pci 32 mb i got plenty of hardrive space and i'm trying to run it (with little success) on an amd k62. sombody help!!