Mouse performance: Things to try

[Keith]

Things to try if you are having problems with your mouse's peformance in the demo. I won't guaranty that these will fix your problem.

General

Updated mouse drivers are always preferred, if they are available.

Slow or sluggish mouse performance

Try a lower screen resolution, if you can.

If your video card supports "full screen anti-aliasing" you may want to try disabling that feature. In some cases this may help some that have reported that the mouse cursor in the game is not moving even though they can click on buttons with an "invisible" cursor while playing the demo.

You may also want to disable any anti-aliasing settings in the demo by setting it to NONE.

Mouse cursor is high or low from hot spot:

If the mouse cursor is at a point on the screen lower or higher than the spot you need to click on try checking the Vertical Sync option in the game settings menu.

A lower screen resolution may also help.

[Keith]

It has also been suggested that checking the Vertical Sync option could also cure a slow or sluggish mouse response.

[Keith]

For those of you having a problem with invisible mouse pointers or the cursor not moving in the game, try the following:

Open your display properties, settings tab, click the advanced button, chose the troubleshooting tab, and moved the hardware acceleration slider down from the highest notch to one below the highest.

Try the demo. You may still need to use one or more the in-game settings mentioned above.

If the mouse still won't move, lower it another notch, then try the demo. Keep trying lower settings until you either get it to work or you hit the lowest settings without any change.

You have to quit the demo each time before you make the next change to the slider.

[AlfaroSpain]

hi, i have the problem "invisible mouse", and i can't solve it because i'm spanish and i can't understad well the solutions in english. Please, could someone translate it to spanish? there's any spanish forum where they give us the solution for this problem.

Thanks

(excuse me for my bad use of english)

[Keith]

We'll this may not be good Spanish, but it's the best online translators could do:

Abra sus propiedades de demostración, la etiqueta de ajustes, chasquido el botón avanzado, eligió la etiqueta de solución, y movió al resbalador de aceleración de hardware abajo de la muesca más alta a uno debajo del más alto.

Intente la demostración. Usted todavía puede tener que usar uno o varios los ajustes en juego mencionados anteriormente.

Si el ratón todavía no moverá, bajarlo otra muesca, luego intentar la demostración. Siga intentando ajustes inferiores hasta que usted lo consiga para trabajar o usted golpea los ajustes más bajos sin cualquier cambio.

Usted tiene que dejar la demostración cada vez antes de que usted haga el siguiente cambio en el resbalador.

[AlfaroSpain]

Thanks!!! but now i have other problem... :( when the mouse is still i can't see it, and when i move it, the mouse flicker. I tried to move the hardware aceleration slider down again but then the game don't work.

I don't know what to do now...

[Keith]

Thanks!!! but now i have other problem... :( when the mouse is still i can't see it, and when i move it, the mouse flicker. I tried to move the hardware aceleration slider down again but then the game don't work.

I don't know what to do now...

The slider should have helped with that.

Here is my first post translated with other things to try:

General
los conductores de ratón Actualizados siempre son preferidos, si ellos están disponibles.

la interpretación de ratón Lenta o inactiva
Intenta una resolución de pantalla inferior, si usted puede.

Si su tarjeta de vídeo apoya "pantalla completa anti-aliasing" usted puede querer tratar de incapacitar aquel rasgo. En algunos casos este puede ayudar unos que han relatado que el cursor de ratón en el juego no se mueve aunque ellos puedan hacer clic en botones con un cursor "invisible" jugando la demostración.

Usted también puede querer incapacitar cualquier anti-aliasing

[mojotexas]

Well, I'm having this mouse thing, too. I have read these posts and followed the reccomendations to no avail, so I am appealing to see if there is any further hope, oh great forum guys.

I get a flickering frozen hand/mouse animation in the middle of the screen, but there is an invisible mouse that I can move around and click on stuff in order to change the settings, etc.

I have updated my drivers.

I have reduced the hardware acceleration by steps until the game no longer would load.

So, I am attaching here, my DXDIAG so that we can see that I do have the minimum requirements, but maybe some requirements are more minimum than others, in the sense that some pigs are more equal than others.

If you can help, I would appreciate it.

Hail Ceasar,

mojo texas

[Keith]

The SiS M760GX (http://www.sis.com/products/sism760gx_benefits.htm) is a chipset that is DX8.1 hardware compliant and only DX9 software compliant. It probably won't be able to run the game, because the game requires DX9 hardware compliance.

SiS Mirage™ Graphic Engine
Powered by SiS Mirage™ 2 Graphic Engine. Microsoft DirectX 8.1 H/W and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 S/W compliant.

[Manni]

Mojotexas :)

did you try this:

http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?p=115225#post115225

[mojotexas]

Thanks for the replies, you're all worth your salt.

I tried Manni's fix with Tweaking the hover sensitivity, but that didn't do it. Thanks anyway.

Phil's suggestion to push some of the tremendous crap on my harddrive over to my external drive is a good one. I will clear some space. I do have Caesar installed on the D: drive with more space, but I will slash and burn on C:.

WIll let you know how it turns out.

OK, these galley slaves aren't going to whip themselves, gotta get back to itl.

Hail Caesar,

mojo

[aged]

mojotexas, Is your mouse hooked up through a usb port or through the traditional ps2 port?

[mojotexas]

mouse is touchpad, thoough I do have a USB mouse as well, if I need it.

[aged]

His Dxdiag is what actually prompted my question. It also lists a usb mouse device and I just wanted to clarify how his mouse was physically connected.

Thanks mojotexas for explaining for dummies like me:)