Eridani Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 Hey all- Well... I just got a new toy... a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000)... I was sitting here having fun with it when I went to load the CM demo... The game works fine except for one "minor" error... there is no cursor. There is during the menu sections of the game, but as soon as the actual game starts (3d arena) the cursor dissapears (reappearing occasionally for an instant before dissapearing again)... The game remains fully functional, save for the fact that I can't see what I am pointing at (rather annoying actually)... I was wondering if there were any known issues like this. I did a search and I didn't find anything else posted. I originially wondered if the errors were caused by the touch-pad software, but I removed it and it didn't help. The machines specs are as follows Dell Inspiron 5000 PIII 500mhz 64 megs ram ATI rage pro mobile (Lt) w/8 megs sgram 15" LCD display *BIG GRIN* 6 gig HD... I'm running win 98 with DirectX 7.0 installed. This is very aggravating... I was really looking forward to being able to play CM on this new toy... oh well. Any advice/suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.... Or at least an assurance that everything will work in the final game thanks in advance -EridanMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baevans Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 I have a Dell CPt-V with the same video setup and I have exactly the same problem. I can only get the cursor to show up by COMPLETELY turning off hardware acceleration; turning it down one notch on the "performance" slider didn't do the job. I've just been hoping that this is a "demo thing" and that the final product/gold demo would work on the Rage mobility / Dell driver setup. Anyone know for sure?? ------------------ Bruce A. Evans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eridani Posted March 4, 2000 Author Share Posted March 4, 2000 Thanks for the reply... I'll try that... BTS- have you heard about this??? I really hope that its not a problem in the full game. thanks again -EridanMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark IV Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 My new Dell Latitude is "state of the art", according to the fascist troglodytes in our IS department: 466 MHz, with NT 4.0 installed . CM won't even install without DirectX, so it's the end of the road for me. Gawd I miss my Thinkpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbg2112 Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 I don't have a laptop, but I had similar probs with the cursor. I read somewhere (probly on this forum) that not using custom cursors was the solution, and in fact that worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ol' Blood & Guts Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 In my experience, the ATI Rage chipset has been the problem. My uncle has one and is having multiple problems with it. I, myself am using an nVidia TNT2 Ultra chipset and haven't run into any graphics problems...except with the new Klingon Academy Demo, in which the cursor is a black translucent box in some of the dialogue boxes, but that was pointed out in the readme as being a demo problem concerning some video chipsets. By the way, that Demo doesn't even support the ATI Rage chipset. So there's another testament on ATI's incompatablitity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 4, 2000 Share Posted March 4, 2000 OB&G is probably right, unfortunately. The fix probably lies in updated ATI drivers for your chipset. I would recommend knocking down your Direct X version to 6.1 to see if that would possibly solve anything, but uninstalling Direct X 7 is nearly impossible without a complete reinstall of Win 98. Since this chipset is fairly new then driver updates may be forthcoming in the future (but that would be several months away at the earliest). However, when the updates do come out they may still not fix your problem. baevans suggestion to completely turn off hardware acceleration (Control Panels - System - Performance tab - Graphics button - move slider to complete left side)is probably your best bet for now. If some big-name game has a similar error (missing mouse cursor) then the fix may be forthcoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baevans Posted March 5, 2000 Share Posted March 5, 2000 I'm using DirectX 6.1 - don't go to the trouble of changing back for this problem 'cause is won't help. Sigh - one can hope the gold demo/full game will work - it's when I'm gone I have the most time to play, so I had great hopes for my laptop. ------------------ Bruce A. Evans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eridani Posted March 5, 2000 Author Share Posted March 5, 2000 Without hardware accelleration the game becomes unplayable slow, but it works... I downloaded the latest drivers from Dell, released 2/25... no luck though (argh, probably means I'm going to have to wait a while for another update...) GOD I hope that the full game works on this machine... I have so much free time at school... I was really hoping to get a chance to catch up on all of my pbem games... I have a tnt2 on my desktop system... It runs great... unfortunately when it came to laptops I had two choices- A- No 3d accelleration or B- Ati Rage Mobile... Quick question- does anyone have a rage mobile LT with CM that WORKS? or is it just a Dell issue (If so, I would SERIOSLY consider returning this Dell for a micron)... oh well... thanks for the input so far. -EridanMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hunt52 Posted March 5, 2000 Share Posted March 5, 2000 Hey scott - the PB G3s have rage 128 mobile not rage pro mobile - Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eridani Posted March 5, 2000 Author Share Posted March 5, 2000 Bill- Yeah... They were also not available at Microcenter for another 2 months and were an addition grand over this new toy. Plus the screens on the machines that they did have in didn't even come close to this beauty... you really need to see it btw, why arn't you on icq anymore? -EridanMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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