EPTI've been having this problem with my mouse cursor in starcraft 2 where it glitches and has lines going through the cursor that are messing up the pixels. This only happens after I've been in the game for around 30 minutes and the cursor stays like that after I turn off sc2. The only way I can fix it is by restarting the computer. Is anyone else experiencing this and/or knows how to fix this? I've searched TL but couldn't find anything like this. Thanks.
Starcraft 2 Cursor glitching out?
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
I've been having this problem with my mouse cursor in starcraft 2 where it glitches and has lines going through the cursor that are messing up the pixels. This only happens after I've been in the game for around 30 minutes and the cursor stays like that after I turn off sc2. The only way I can fix it is by restarting the computer. Is anyone else experiencing this and/or knows how to fix this? I've searched TL but couldn't find anything like this. Thanks. | ||
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Pads
England3228 Posts
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semantics
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http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll3/mckie_titus/?action=view¤t=M4H00847.flv Turnings thing off like cursor shadow works for some or using a mouse trail etc. Most ppl who report this have atleast 2 monitors. | ||
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
On August 03 2010 10:16 semantics wrote: Are you running a ATI 5xxx series, if so it's just a graphic bug caused by ati driver's rolling back to like 9.x will solve it for most ppl. Or update your driver to 10.6 if it's not already there. http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll3/mckie_titus/?action=view¤t=M4H00847.flv Turnings thing off like cursor shadow works for some or using a mouse trail etc. Most ppl who report this have atleast 2 monitors. How would I "roll back" to 9.x? I saw your video and that's what happens to my cursor. My drivers are updated to 10.6. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
Just uninstall current ati crap and install older drivers. Some ppl find 9.4 to be the most stable, but i think the glitch started with 9.11 so i'd try 9.10 Personally i just live with it | ||
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dNo_O
United States233 Posts
edit: to clarify, if i have fraps running, everything freezes when i move my mouse in a diagonal manner, but horizontally and vertically it just lowers my fps a lot, but if i'm talking at the same time (using push to talk in ventrilo) i suffer no frameloss at all. i have a q6600 nvidia 9800gt and 2gb1066 ram on windows xp. | ||
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
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t3tsubo
Canada682 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On August 03 2010 11:14 ValorS wrote: Yea.. I don't want to mess it up even more... I guess I'll wait for ATI to fix it. :/ The problem been around nov/december of 2009. | ||
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
On August 03 2010 11:58 semantics wrote: The problem been around nov/december of 2009. Or... a very smart guy could post us a solution on this thread. I'm going to try some minor tweaks to fix it. | ||
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Chuiu
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Gatsu1313
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lethal111
Canada460 Posts
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jnay
Canada107 Posts
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xira
United States20 Posts
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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skullkrack
United States1 Post
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Noxie
United States2227 Posts
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Noxie
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yoyobags
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JPWN
United Kingdom4 Posts
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Highways
Australia6103 Posts
Using an ATi 5870 mobility. | ||
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ColonelSeitan
United States78 Posts
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Kegs.aus
Australia133 Posts
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On August 03 2010 12:54 Chuiu wrote: Load up Screen Magnifier and set it to 100%. It will fix the cursor problem and sometimes you're able to close the program afterwards too and keep it fixed. Otherwise just restart. :/ I use this solution as well.. I kind of forgot it was even an issue cause I just have the magnifier on all the time now. I love ATI cards but problems like this (and aspect ratio override) make me very sad  | ||
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Phantasmic
United States15 Posts
Maybe it will work for you. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On October 05 2010 14:55 Phantasmic wrote: This happens to my laptop quite a bit. After a few weeks I randomly found a solution that works for me. Just throw the mouse into the top right corner of the screen a bunch of times. I just do it maybe 6-7 times and the mouse goes back to normal. The mouse only messed up in-game however. Maybe it will work for you. Let me guess you have your start bar on the top instead of on the bottom. | ||
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Phantasmic
United States15 Posts
On October 05 2010 15:05 semantics wrote: Let me guess you have your start bar on the top instead of on the bottom. No it's on the bottom. Perhaps I should know I throw the mouse into the top right, in game. Fullscreen. | ||
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semantics
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yoyobags
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On September 04 2010 08:42 yoyobags wrote: this worked for me. open magnifier. then go to control panel, mouse settings. then pointer options. select display pointer trails. apply. then close magnifier. then uncheck display pointer trails, and the mouse cursor will stay fixed. before i used magnifier, it wouldnt stay fixed. if i just opened magnifier and didnt go to mouse settings, the cursor would go back to being messed up when i closed magnifier. so for me, combining these 2 steps solved my problem. update on this. this stopped working after a couple times. a new solution i have found is turning windows aero on and off if youre using windows 7. when i change desktop theme to windows classic it fixes my cursor. | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5501 Posts
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Flaunt
New Zealand784 Posts
Go to your Mouse Properties and click the box "Display pointer trails." Just slide the thingy to the left so you can't really tell the difference and you're set :D. | ||
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The6357
United States1268 Posts
lol it works | ||
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CreamCorn
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willyireland
United Kingdom43 Posts
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Zamiel
United States211 Posts
The ATI SC2 Cursor Glitching Thread What is the bug? After playing SC2 for a while, the cursor will begin to glitch out and become fragmented. It is still possible to play with a fragmented cursor, but it is obnoxious more than debilitating. The cursor will stay like this permanently (both in and out of the game) until the computer is restarted. What hardware/software setups cause this bug? The combination of the following seems to trigger this bug: - Having any 5 series ATI Radeon card. - Running Windows 7 64-bit edition. - Having multiple monitors. Why does the glitch happen? It is a bug with the ATI Windows 7 64-bit driver. Will ATI fix the bug in the driver? Perhaps, but at this juncture it seems unlikely. This particular driver bug is not a SC2 specific thing, and it has been occurring in games on Windows 7 64-bit for at least a year or longer. After experiencing this glitch in the beta, I was hoping that the game's massive popularity at release would be a catalyst for ATI to fix the bug. But now, 5 months after release, it seems that that was not the case. What are some potential fixes that suck and/or don't work? 1) Rolling back to driver 9.4/9.10/9.x I tried a few 9 series drivers and it did not fix the problem. 2) Rolling back to driver 10.x I tried a few older 10 series drivers and it did not fix the problem. 3) Use the Windows "Screen Magnifier" and set it to 100% This is a decent workaround to fix the cursor for general OS use if you are too lazy to restart. The caveat of this is that you have to live with the magnifier program constantly living in your taskbar, which personally bugs me. As for SC2, this solution will fix the cursor but it will also lag your cursor significantly, making it terrible solution for playing the game. 4) Enabling cursor trails and setting the trail length to the minimum length Even at the minimum allowable length, cursor trails are completely obnoxious so I deem this a terrible solution. Cursor trails also persist while inside SC2, so this is not really helpful for that either. 5) Combining methods 3 and 4 in various ways Doesn't fix the problem. 6) Move the mouse in a specific way along the edges of the screen Doesn't fix the problem. 7) Disabling extra monitors before playing SC2 Doesn't help, the cursor glitch will still happen. Perhaps if one completely unpluged them then it would help, but I didn't really try that. Besides, that is a terrible fucking solution, since I don't want to have to unplug shit every time I play SC2. 8) Updating to the latest driver For what it is worth, the cursor glitch seems to happen less on the latest drivers, but it still happens. Are there any actual solutions? I recently bought an Active-DisplayPort to DVI adapter so I could use a 3rd monitor in addition to my TV. (If you want to use a 3rd monitor with the Radeon 5 series cards, you HAVE to have one of the monitors use the DisplayPort.) Now that I have three monitors instead of two, I have gone a week without running into the cursor glitch. I'm not sure that it was this exact hardware configuration change that was the catalyst for the disappearance of the bug, so perhaps others can chime in if it works for them too. | ||
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deanyo
United Kingdom206 Posts
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Mofisto
United Kingdom585 Posts
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11cc
Finland561 Posts
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semantics
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On December 14 2010 05:26 11cc wrote: This solution has been posted before, but moving the cursor to top right corner while in game so that the screen moves fixes the problem for me That's not a fix. A fix removes the problem from being a problem, that's more of a weak patch the thing is still an annoyance. | ||
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11cc
Finland561 Posts
On December 14 2010 06:04 semantics wrote: That's not a fix. A fix removes the problem from being a problem, that's more of a weak patch the thing is still an annoyance. I guess if it happens all the time then it's still annoying, but for me it happens only about once in a day and dragging that cursor to top right isn't too bad. For me it's just about as good as the problem not existing at all. | ||
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Septor
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Fyodor
Canada971 Posts
On December 15 2010 02:19 Septor wrote: Try latest 10.12 Catalyst. Seems OK on my systems. Yes, Catalyst 10.12 fixes the problem completely. AMD Catalyst Display Driver 10.12 release notes Resolved Known Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System -Random mouse cursor corruption is no longer seen Took like 16 driver revisions but they got it done. | ||
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DuTchEroes
Netherlands1 Post
So I (and a lot of other people I know) where still facing this problem even with the latest drivers. But the solution is as simple as adding curser trails. | ||
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Czarnodziej
Poland624 Posts
On August 19 2011 03:09 DuTchEroes wrote: But the solution is as simple as adding curser trails. Most of the times it doesnt work. Whereas switching to mode "Windowed (Fullscreen)" solves it. | ||
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Casaway
Canada1 Post
SOLUTION: Right-click task bar Choose Properties Under "Preview Desktop With Aero Peak" Deselect "Use Aero Peak To Display The Desktop" Since I've done this I have not had the issue reoccur. | ||
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BuGGeaD
Canada19 Posts
updating my driver atm so ill see if glitch again | ||
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
Does anyone have a fix? I have been trying everything with no success. I love this game, adn it sucks to not be able to play it. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20285 Posts
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
The guy at Battlenet implied that it was peripheral issue. I have had the same Steel Series Ikari mouse forever, so that cannot be it, but I did recently purchase a Starcraft zBoard cheap. It is not a bad keyboard, but htis be cuasing my pain? I had finally made silver, then shot up to #1, now I lose every game because I HAVE NO MOUSE IN GAME! Please, someone, anyone, help me. | ||
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
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Faust852
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SkipPe
United States13 Posts
I love this game, and nothing is fixing this. I switched out mouse and keyboard, no impact. restart, no impact. I do not know what to do. | ||
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dae
Canada1600 Posts
There is a REALLY EASY temporary fix for when it happens. Run Windows Magnifier, at full screen, at 100% magnification. It's annoying to have to take 2 seconds to tab out and open it, but it will prevent you from losing any games because of it. This Fixes the mouse cursor while it is open - after the game, just sleep/wake up your computer and your good. About the underlying cause, it's probably a driver/os/hardware issue thats pretty deep - I doubt it's debuggable/fixable easily on the user end. | ||
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