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yoyobags
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
8 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-03 23:47:00
September 03 2010 23:42 GMT
#21
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.
JPWN
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom4 Posts
September 10 2010 23:18 GMT
#22
I'm running an ATI 5670 mobile and get this problem too except mine more commonly goes to several horizontal lines. I can live with it for the duration of the game and about 10 mins after I quit SC2 it recovers. How new are these ATI patches cos I cba to go about downloading old stuff. Will a new one be coming out any time soon? (I don't know much about drivers so apologies if I'm being really ignorant)
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Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6106 Posts
September 10 2010 23:52 GMT
#23
I have this same problem as well.

Using an ATi 5870 mobility.
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ColonelSeitan
Profile Joined September 2010
United States78 Posts
September 11 2010 13:56 GMT
#24
I've got an hd 4850 and am getting this glitch during sc2 as well...it's weird, and sometimes I mis-click stuff in the game with all those lines as my cursor. I hate it when it happens in a ladder game.
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Kegs.aus
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia133 Posts
October 04 2010 10:22 GMT
#25
If u hover over the START button and then follow along the bottom to over the time it should fix it, it does for me.
vek
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia936 Posts
October 04 2010 12:48 GMT
#26
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
Phantasmic
Profile Joined October 2010
United States15 Posts
October 05 2010 05:55 GMT
#27
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.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
October 05 2010 06:05 GMT
#28
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.
Phantasmic
Profile Joined October 2010
United States15 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-05 06:13:15
October 05 2010 06:12 GMT
#29
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.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
October 05 2010 06:54 GMT
#30
Well this "fix" has been long known but most people throw it down to the bottom right if you do it fast enough some reason it goes away.
yoyobags
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
8 Posts
November 05 2010 21:48 GMT
#31
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.
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5529 Posts
November 05 2010 22:12 GMT
#32
For me mousing to the bottom right of the screen gets rid of it. Havent tried any other corner though.
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Flaunt
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
New Zealand784 Posts
November 05 2010 22:25 GMT
#33
I have the fix:
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
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States1268 Posts
November 05 2010 22:25 GMT
#34
i use radeon 4850 and this happens to me as well...it's not only with SC2 tho..it happens just randomly when i browse internet or play LoL...quick fix is just click on the browser -> move cursor out of browser -> click on empty desktop couple times -> then move cursor back to browser...
lol it works
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CreamCorn
Profile Joined August 2010
33 Posts
November 25 2010 16:11 GMT
#35
I am running a 5870 and I too get this issue occasionally. Just keeping the magnifier (Windows Button - +/-) running in background fixes the issue for me.
willyireland
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom43 Posts
December 12 2010 14:33 GMT
#36
This issue affects me, ATI 5870 mobile.. Just enable pointer trails and turn them right the way down.
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Zamiel
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States211 Posts
December 13 2010 06:07 GMT
#37
Going to summarize the thread. Maybe a mod can edit the OP for me?

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
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom206 Posts
December 13 2010 18:56 GMT
#38
I updated to 10.6 recently and found i had a graphical bug with the 5770 where i couldnt see the radius around pylons when they are on high ground, so i rolled back to 9.something to fix that, still getting the mouse bug but i just try to ignore it. Sometimes tabbing in and out or ctrl-alt-deleting fixes it for me, if not i restart.
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Mofisto
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom585 Posts
December 13 2010 19:32 GMT
#39
10.11 seems to have all but stopped the glitch for me. When it does happen (my cursor resembles coiled spring) i just shake my mouse from side to side. seems to do the trick for me
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11cc
Profile Joined May 2008
Finland561 Posts
December 13 2010 20:26 GMT
#40
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
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