Mouse Cursor disappearing in Fullscreen in Windows 7

[Zeta1127]

I recently installed Alpha 10 on a Windows 7 laptop to see how well it would run, and the mouse cursor disappears in fullscreen, but still works if you can figure out where it is pointing. I know this is also a problem with some other games and Windows 7 too. I mentioned this in the GUI thread, but it seems to have been overlooked.

Edited June 8, 2012 by Zeta1127

[majapahit]

Sometimes when I enable mouse trails, the pointer goes missing in several games. Try turn off the mouse trails.

[Pureon]

I recently installed Alpha 10 on a Windows 7 laptop to see how well it would run, and the mouse cursor disappears in fullscreen, but still works if you can figure out where it is pointing. I know this is also a problem with some other games and Windows 7 too. I mentioned this in the GUI thread, but it seems to have been overlooked.

Try adding this line into a local.cfg file:

nohwcursor = true

Here's more information about creating the local config file: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Manual_Settings

[Zeta1127]

Thanks, I will try those things soon.

[Zeta1127]

Pureon's suggestion worked, excellent!

[historic_bruno]

Try adding this line into a local.cfg file:

nohwcursor = true

Here's more information about creating the local config file: http://trac.wildfire...Manual_Settings

Hmm, it would still be nice to know why the hardware cursor is failing to display. Setting nohwcursor to true will cause cursor lag because it's tied into the renderer instead of the OS.

[historic_bruno]

I take it this problem still occurs? I'm curious which graphics card you have and are your drivers up to date?

[Zeta1127]

Don't worry about it, the laptop that this issue was happening on is an HP Touchsmart that had its broken touchscreen replaced with a conventional screen, its been having graphics driver issues with the ATI Radeon HD 3200 that I haven't been able to resolve, and it apparently doesn't have full OpenGL 2.0 support (like my parent's computer that has the nVidia GeForce 4200 Ti), so I am not even going to bother trying to play 0 A.D. on it.

Edited June 6, 2013 by Zeta1127

[Stan`]

@jsteave have you tried to add nohwcursor = true in your user.cfg file ?