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So I installed this game, and played it last night, and it was working fine and lovely and is really fun, but then I went to sleep and I woke up this morning and tried to play it, and the cursor doesn't show up anymore. It still highlghts where the cursor is, and sometimes the cursor will flicker in, but only for like a milisecond.
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Annoying Problem, Cursor Doesn't Appear Anymore
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Posted 07 February 2010 - 05:48 PM
Hmm. The cursor is a GUI overlay and has it's own separate program-within-a-program. You apparently still have all of the Click functions and the location/movement functionality. Hmm.
1) Check your mouse software. It will either have it's own control panel, or else you'll find it under Mouse in the Windows Control Panel. Don't change settings unless you see something obviously wrong. Just Confirm your settings. This might "remind" the mouse how the cursor is _supposed_ to behave.
2) More drastic. Uninstall SMP, then install it again. If you have any Saved games in progress that you want to retain, create a New Folder on your desktop and shift them to there. Your Saved games can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates! After the re-install just drag the Saved games back to where you found them in the first place.
Let me know if neither of these things work.
1) Check your mouse software. It will either have it's own control panel, or else you'll find it under Mouse in the Windows Control Panel. Don't change settings unless you see something obviously wrong. Just Confirm your settings. This might "remind" the mouse how the cursor is _supposed_ to behave.
2) More drastic. Uninstall SMP, then install it again. If you have any Saved games in progress that you want to retain, create a New Folder on your desktop and shift them to there. Your Saved games can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates! After the re-install just drag the Saved games back to where you found them in the first place.
Let me know if neither of these things work.
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Cutter De Blanc
Posted 08 February 2010 - 06:57 AM
CaptainPatch, on 07 February 2010 - 05:48 PM, said:
Hmm. The cursor is a GUI overlay and has it's own separate program-within-a-program. You apparently still have all of the Click functions and the location/movement functionality. Hmm.
1) Check your mouse software. It will either have it's own control panel, or else you'll find it under Mouse in the Windows Control Panel. Don't change settings unless you see something obviously wrong. Just Confirm your settings. This might "remind" the mouse how the cursor is _supposed_ to behave.
2) More drastic. Uninstall SMP, then install it again. If you have any Saved games in progress that you want to retain, create a New Folder on your desktop and shift them to there. Your Saved games can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates! After the re-install just drag the Saved games back to where you found them in the first place.
Let me know if neither of these things work.
1) Check your mouse software. It will either have it's own control panel, or else you'll find it under Mouse in the Windows Control Panel. Don't change settings unless you see something obviously wrong. Just Confirm your settings. This might "remind" the mouse how the cursor is _supposed_ to behave.
2) More drastic. Uninstall SMP, then install it again. If you have any Saved games in progress that you want to retain, create a New Folder on your desktop and shift them to there. Your Saved games can be found at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Pirates! After the re-install just drag the Saved games back to where you found them in the first place.
Let me know if neither of these things work.
Nope, neither worked....
EDIT: At least initially. I messed with an option (pointer trails) in the mouse properties and then switched it back, and clicked okay, and now it works, but I had to fiddle with the option first.
This post has been edited by Cutter De Blanc: 08 February 2010 - 07:03 AM
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