Cursor not appearing in set up screens

[Corelli]

Issue: the cursor does not appear in my set up windows; i.e. the windows to select what scenario you want to play, pick a country, options, etc., but it does appear when I actually start a scenario and appears to work fine once the game is going. This happens in vanilla HoI 2, & Doomsday and Arma (patched up to their official latest patches) with no mods or anything.

While I cannot see the cursor I can see what it is highlighting which lets me, after some effort, pick a scenario and country but I am unable to change any of the options (difficulty, takeover, etc) which is very annoying.

On my old rig everything worked fine, and I have a new fast gaming computer (with Vista) that runs HoI 3 fine, but when I tried to install and play HoI 2 (until the HoI 3 issues are resolved by Paradox) I am getting the issue I described above.

I used the google search technique but couldn't find any similar threads to my issue.

I am running a:

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition
Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 (2.66GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
Memory 4GB (I have plenty of memory left to run games)
Memory speed PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory
Graphics card Dual SLI Nvidia GeForce 9800S MXM 3.0 graphics cards with 512MB DDR3 memory on each card

Any suggestions for resolving my issue?

 

[kezardinjnr]

If your mouse uses installed drivers, it may be worthwhile checking to see if there is a later version available.

I've seen this suggested for Vista cursor problems :

1-Right click the desktop shortcut for your game.

2-Select 'Properties'. Make sure you are in the 'Shotcut' tab.

3-Select the 'Target' field. It should look something like this: "C:\Program Files\games\Paradox Interactive\Armageddon\HOI2.exe"

4-Add -compatiblecursors 1 to the end of the target, so that it looks like this:

"C:\Program Files\games\Paradox Interactive\Armageddon\HOI2.exe " -compatiblecursors 1

 

[Corelli]

Thank you for the suggestion, sadly it didn't work.

I ended up just very slowly getting the settings I wanted before starting the game. Again, once in the game the cursor appeared normally. Very odd!

 

[kezardinjnr]

One of these may do the trick :

Disable "display pointer trails".

Disable "hide pointer while typing".

Disable "enable pointer shadow"

 

[Corelli]

Unfortunately those didn't work either. I ended up enabling this function where I would press the Ctrl key and it would send out a radar ping of where the cursor was.

It didn't make it real easy to use but at least I was able to put the settings where I wanted them.

I blame Vista