So I just bought this game and it seems to be entirely playable on windows 10 which is awesome, however I can't get over this cursor that is stuck in the middle of the screen. It's a second unmovable cursor which is pretty annoying.

Anyone know a fix?

What fixed it for me was configuring Windows to run it in 'Windows 95' compatibility mode. I also enabled 'Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution' and 'Disable fullscreen optimizations', but the latter two by themselves did not fix it.

GOG's install adds a .sdb Compatibility Fix called "ForceSimpleWindow". This fix worked on earlier versions of Windows, but updates to Windows 10 have broken it for some apps.

Here's how remove this .sdb Compatibility Fix:
Run regedit.exe and navigate to the following registry key- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Custom\prophecy.exe
Copy just the "{GUID}" part found under the name column in this key.

From a "Run as administator" command prompt run following command> sdbinst -u -g { [guid you got from ..\AppCompatFlags\Custom\prophecy.exe registry key] }

example- sdbinst -u -g {396435cd-b11c-428d-91d1-d62966feb7ba}

You should see the following message if uninstalling the compatibility fix worked "Uninstallation of GOG.com Wing Commander Prophecy complete".
Close command prompt window.

This procedure also works for Wing Commander Secret Ops (secretops.exe).

note: You may have to run prophecy.exe/secretops.exe in the Windows 98/ME compatibilty mode.

thank you for your answer. Sadly I can't seem to paste in the command prompt and the {} symbol does not seem to work so I can't manually input it :(

I asked the COG Galaxy team about this and they suggested installing the OpenGL Patch //pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Wing_Commander:_Prophecy#Install_enhancements

This worked for me although I had to keep loading the patch to try to get the right screen resolution, I settled on 1280 x 800 but I am not sure if this is the best. The problem is after playing the game and returning to Windows I have to reset my display back to 3840 x 2160 and also change the size of the text and apps back to 150%.

Thank you very much for this post. It indeed removed the stuck mouse cursor from the middle of the screen. NOTE: Make sure you have entered the administrative version of CMD in Win10 by typing CMD in the search box and then pressing CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER keys together otherwise this fix will not work.