What's happening to the cursor?

Hey Paul,

Thanks for the screen recording and detailed system information. I can see the cursor behavior you’re referring to, and clearing the media cache would not be my first troubleshooting step for this particular issue.

Since you’re already using the current NVIDIA Studio Driver, I’d next test whether Premiere’s GPU-accelerated UI is involved. Go to Preferences > General and toggle GPU Accelerated UI Rendering, then restart Premiere and check whether the cursor behavior changes.

If it still occurs, please let us know your exact Premiere version/build. That will help determine whether we’re looking at a version-specific UI issue.

Cheers,
Kevin

I know we’re ruling out everything on your end, but just in case you should answer the requests for info, like hardware info / driver info, etc. Things happen, not to you, but to us, though I do wonder what your last sentence above was going to say… it looks like it was cut off “it passes all tests, updates, and maintenance every “, was there something missing from that, I know it’s not on your end or anything like that… 😅

That is odd. Definitely looks like a GPU issue. That’s why you need to post computer specs though so we can rule that out (Mac vs PC). 

Try updating or rolling back your graphics driver directly from the video card manufacturer’s site. If NVIDIA, do a clean installation of the latest Studio Driver (NOT the Game Driver).

If that doesn't work, try creating a new project and import the old one into it.

If that doesn't work, try resetting the preferences:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/premiere-pro/using/reset-preferences.html