Hey, thanks for the detailed WinDbg analysis. It’s really helpful for other users.
This is a known issue with the Windows DirectX kernel driver dxgkrnl!CheckMultiPlaneOverlayInternal3. It’s not a Cursor bug directly, it’s a bug in the MPO code path when switching between GPUs. Cursor via Electron and Chromium just triggers that path.
Your workaround to disable MPO plus Terminal GPU Acceleration is correct. A couple more things to try:
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Update the Intel iGPU driver to the latest version from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download-center/home.html. Another user with the exact same crash said this fully fixed it without needing to disable MPO.
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As an alternative, in Windows Settings > System > Display > Graphics set Cursor to High performance NVIDIA so it won’t use the Intel iGPU at all.
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Instead of fully disabling the GPU, try
cursor --disable-gpu-compositing. This disables only the overlay while keeping some hardware acceleration.
Related thread for reference: Cursor crashes Windows11