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Solve : Full screen problem in game - not sure if it's directx, XP, or mouse drivers.? |
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Answer» HELLO, Basically I'm posting here as a last ditch effort. I recently bought a game called Mount & Blade Warband. THe Problem is, when in true fullscreen, the mouse pointer doesn't move. The mouse functions, and the game reads/reacts to inputs, but the cursor will not follow. it just stays locked midscreen. If I run in windowed mode, everything works fine, but the game is slow and clunky as it was meant to run in fullscreen. the game company only has a forum for "tech support" but they don't actually respond to alot, have an official troubleshooting section, and basically just use the forum to try and find bugs and then release patches. Unfortuanatly for XP users, no one responds with anything other than "update your drivers." I have two machines, a Compaq Presario desktop (primary comp) and an Acer Aspire NETBOOK someone gave me. Both Run XP. After having the pointer issue on the Presario, I installed the game on the Aspire. It functioned as intended. HOWEVER the Aspire isn't a gaming machine. It has a small monitor, less than 1 gig RAM, and 1.6ghz processor. also it only has a 7~gig disk which with all the XP files and other crap leaves barely any room for anything. I;ve pretty much REMOVED everything I could, leaving about less than 2~gig. the game is like 900 mb. I only say because after everything there's less than 500mb. I set the paging file to 300mb which is really low. So even though it runs the game, it's incredibly choppy even on the lowest visual settings. but it was all intended just to test anyway. My compaq isn't a super machine either, 1.8ghz ,128mb vmem (from the Vcard), 1.1g Ram, and i set like 3gb VRAM (pagefile). It runs the game fine enough in fullscreen (with the exception of the mouse pointer) but it slows down when run in windowed mode as i said. So I started looking at the differences in the two machines. and I noted that even though both are running the same version of directx9, the Acer has more recent versions of alot of the actual dll files associated with DX and also the windows mouse driver mouclass.sys and I'm thinking that's the issue. Unfortunatly, I don't know how to update the mouclass.sys file as it's protected by windows. I pulled the mouclass.sys file off the Acer and have tried in vain to get the Compaq to use it. regardless what I do, windows just writes over it again. Pretty much the same thing for the directx files. when i try to download it from microsoft, the webupdater just says the most recent version is already installed. and if i try to pull direct x off like a game CD or something it doesn't update the dll files. i've literally tried everything else. changed display settings, resolutions, mouse visiblity settings, UNINSTALLED and reinstalled the game numerous times, tried to use windows hardware update wizard to update mousedrivers to no avail. nothing i've done works. So basically unless anyone has any other ideas, i'd like to ask how to update mouclass as I can't find an installer or anything from microsoft. And how to go about actually updating the directx dlls. |
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