I've tried compatiblecursors 1 and renderthread 1, and both at the same time. the cursors helps with the heroes side but I'm still getting a black square on the villains side.
I can play a lot of games perfect at 30+fps. Team fortress 2, Counter strike source, WoW, Audiosurf, hell even Portal.
As for laptop specs. Yeah i'm using an intergrated intel celeron 965 graphics card. Core 2 duo processor T7300.
It SHOULD be able to handle this with no problems at all, but I can only suspect that this is vista's handy work.
This bug is really starting to annoying me because it means that I can't fully customize my characters and it takes about 5 minutes just to find the damn slider. =/