Mouse Cursor on vacation
By
Fizzler,
Posted on: 2011-09-14 17:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I'm really the only one with this problem.
nope i get it too but i've mapped my powers out so all i have to do is hit some keys on my numpad for my main attacks etc when it dissapears. Hope someone out there has a solution
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well i guess they don't care. I'll just let the vip run out and go freebie until they get the bugs worked out...hate beta testing a, what is it 7 or 8, year old game.
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Was kinda hoping on some players chiming in with any possible fixes. Do a search on 'mouse cursor' and see how much trouble this game seems to have with em. I've never seen a game so touchy about other programs and drivers for that darn mouse. Guess I'll just suck it up and play windowed mode til next ATI driver release comes out and give it a try.
And the no support on forums, only email...that's just weird. Even indie games give support on their forums. If you are too understaffed to keep up with the problems in the forums, how can you keep up with multiple emails over the same problems? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or offensive here, I honestly don't understand the angle.
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There was a "cursor pack" out there, that changed the stock CoX cursors to something more noticible for you... i tried to search for it, but i couldnt find the thread in the 1st 500 results, maybe someone else can chime in and help out on this one.|
Originally Posted by Fizzler
Was kinda hoping on some players chiming in with any possible fixes. Do a search on 'mouse cursor' and see how much trouble this game seems to have with em. I've never seen a game so touchy about other programs and drivers for that darn mouse. Guess I'll just suck it up and play windowed mode til next ATI driver release comes out and give it a try.
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EDIT: Here is the link http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...9&postcount=53
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| And the no support on forums, only email...that's just weird. Even indie games give support on their forums. If you are too understaffed to keep up with the problems in the forums, how can you keep up with multiple emails over the same problems? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or offensive here, I honestly don't understand the angle. |
If "red name" tech support were expected to reply to every single tech support request, they would actually spend more time reading the forums and not helping people. That is why they have the email support section, which allows them to *focus* their help towards those. There is also the NCsoft support site as well as the forums, as well as ingame methods for reporting bugs/tech issues. The NCsoft support site i use if it is something that the "forum users" cannot solve... which thankfully hasnt been all that much.
(note: Forum users are only about 10% of the playing population, so i would imagine that they get far more requests for help from ingame than out of game).
Also, on the flip side, with it being on the forums, there is a greater pool of people to help solve the problem (the users in this case), so in some cases problems can be resolved *before* a red name replies to it, so even if it was solved, a red name would still have to read the thread to make sure that it was resolved. If the person doesnt reply to the email, then you could just as easily say that the person doesnt need help, and so you dont need to help them.
And until the player base actually starts marking forum threads correctly, this section is a total hodge podge of tech support/bugs/other issues, and to be honest, it can be a bit of work to also chase up on every single issue that happens here.
From what little information you've given, I'd recommend downloading Driver Sweeper and the 11.4 ATI drivers for your video card/OS. There are several issues with drivers later than that and 64-bit versions of Windows.
As always, the preferred method for changing drivers is as follows:
- Install Driver Sweeper but don't run it yet.
- Download 11.4 drivers but don't install them yet.
- Uninstall current drivers and Catalyst Control Center.
- Reboot into Safe Mode, cancel any installation wizards, run Driver Sweeper.
- Reboot into normal Windows mode, cancel any installation wizards.
- Install the 11.4 drivers downloaded earlier.
Also, make sure that you have Vista Service Pack 2 installed on your computer (your sparse information doesn't list the SP version).
If you continue to have problems, you'll need to follow the instructions in the [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums thread that is stickied here.
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot.|
Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
There was a "cursor pack" out there, that changed the stock CoX cursors to something more noticible for you... i tried to search for it, but i couldnt find the thread in the 1st 500 results, maybe someone else can chime in and help out on this one.
EDIT: Here is the link http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...9&postcount=53 |
edit: They work nicely, and that guy even has a larger cursor pack for high resolutions...very nice. Thanks again Gangrel!
Apparently I'm the only one in the world that lost their mouse cursor when playing full screen? I've searched all day, the only answers I've found were from over a year ago. I still tried them, -compatiblecursors at the command line, /cursorcache in game...I've ran the game in compatibility mode for xp service pack 2. Turned off visual themes... nothing is working. Windowed mode works fine but I don't want windowed mode, I want my fullscreen back that I had last month when I checked in on the beta! I'm running Vista 64bit, ATI 5850 with 11.8 drivers. Someone else has to have run across this too. I'm not that special to be the only one lol
edit: I got the compatiblecursors 1 to work from the ncsoft launcher...damned ugly cursor but it is there. I'd still like to know a fix... can't stand running things in compatibility mode, it makes me feel so unclean lol.
anyone? bueller...bueller...bueller