Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 I now have a Logitech mouse. The thing doesn't even show up on the menu of CM demo. If I click something, the screen appears mottled (with pictures from main menu). Someone give me the name of some regular old mouse they're using so I can get it, or a solution for this (yes BTS, that includes you). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 Are you using a serial (9 pins), PS/2 (4 pins in a small circle) or USB mouse (rectangular connector) ? If you're going to switch mice you may want to uninstall any drivers for previous mice. Uninstalling can be done from either the Control Panel > Add, Remove Softare control panel or from an uninstaller provided with the drivers (which may be an icon in your Start Menu > Progams > "whatever mouse folder"). I'd suggest going to Control Panel > System control panel > Device Manager tab and checking out your mouse section. See if you have any yellow circles with an exclamation point in them. These are drivers that aren't running a device or a device that doesn't have drivers OR a device that is just having a problem. You can possibly highlight every mouse listed here (one at a time) and click the Remove button or press the Delete key on your keyboard to get rid of it. One of these devices is going to be your current mouse driver, so your mouse will stop working at some point when you are deleting these (you will now have to use the keyboard to manuver around Windows). From here you will need to reboot the computer and see if it detects your new mouse. You will now need either the Windows 9x CD, your mouse drivers CD/diskette or know what directory on your hard drive for either (or it just may install automatically with little intervention from you). Try to load up CM now and see if the problem duplicates itself still. If it does then you may have a conflict between the mouse driver and the video driver. Sometimes this can be fixed by adjusting a setting for the video drivers (which usually involves losing some acceleration) or updating either/both mouse and video drivers. If you have a particular brand of mouse (your Logitech and MS Intellimouse) then you will need to find the specific upgraded driver for that model. Logitech has updated their drivers to fix some incompatibilities with some displays. MantaRay pointed out that he has newer MS drivers, though they may not address your issue (i'm using a PS/2 Intellimouse and I'm not having any problems). If none of this works then you either have a more deep-rooted problem with your drivers (which may be fixed with more tweaking and tinkering with the system) or there remains a driver incompatibility in your system which you will be unable to change until newer drivers resolve the issue. If you have tried these steps and you're still having problems, then let us know and we can step you through some more thorough processes to attempt to fix the issue. [This message has been edited by Schrullenhaft (edited 06-17-2000).] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murx Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 There is an issue with some graphical cards screwing screen & mouse pointer (mainly S3 based and some Voodoos). So this is to less information. If You might think it's because of the card try the newest device drivers, most times that would fix that. murx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 18, 2000 Author Share Posted June 18, 2000 Okay, I saved my old Intellimouse, and tried seeing if any other driver were there. No dice. Then, I downloaded the best driver I could get for this *&%#! Logitech mouse. No joy. I'm going to get the newest video driver for my card (Video-97AGP) and see if that helps. Other than that, the old Intellimouse is going back in and if someone could let me know where MantaRay got the drivers, I'd appreciate it. If that doesn't work, I'm going to get the dumbest mouse ever and put it on. That should work. Any other suggestions/info, let me know 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 18, 2000 Author Share Posted June 18, 2000 Ok, downloaded the video driver, how the heck do I install it?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 18, 2000 Author Share Posted June 18, 2000 Forget it-the thing's mottling up my batle in CC2 with blocks every so often. Good bye Logitech! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 Sosabowski - You are still seeing the screen corruption when you load CM ? Looks like you have a Jaton video card based on the Trident 9850. This video card (as you probably already know) won't support transparencies. According to Trident this video chip doesn't support DirectX 6.x in hardware - in other words the new features in DirectX 6 & 7 will have to be software rendered. To install the driver you'll need a zip extracting program (like WinZip). Open up the file and extract it to a directory you'll remember (preferably one you've just created with Explorer - call it "trident"). When you've unzipped the file go to Control Panel > System control panel > Device Manager tab > click on the plus next to or double click on the Display Adapter entry > highlight your video card and press the Properties button > goto the Driver tab and click on the Update Driver button. Click the Next button and select "Display list...". Click on the "Have Disk" button and point it to the "trident" directory. Hopefully it should be fairly automatic from here. If this driver doesn't solve your problem you can download the latest from Trident at: http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographic_comms/html/drivers/3dimage_9850.htm The driver is about two years old, but it is a bit newer than the Jaton one. I don't know how much an improvement Jaton may have made on the driver, but I wouldn't assume it has been much, so the Trident driver may be a better bet to fix your problem, but try the Jaton one first. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 18, 2000 Author Share Posted June 18, 2000 Thanks Schullencraft-if worse comes to worse, the guy who built my computer lives about 5 minutes from me and has his house chock full of video cards-so one way or another-I WILL PLAY COMBAT MISSION! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrapGame Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 Schrullenhaft, Networking specialist? Microsoft Engineer? Regardless, many thanks to you for the amount of time and effort you have spent trying to fix other peoples computer problems. I haven't had any with CM, other than my PC being too slow, but I know who to call if I do. Just thought I'd say thanks for the many you have helped so much. I do some network administration myself at work, and i know it is a thankless job. Cheers. ------------------ CrapGame out 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 18, 2000 Share Posted June 18, 2000 Thanks Crapgame. Your gratitude is appreciated. I'm currently a "systems analyst" doing database administration on a Sun platform. I've done a lot of work w/ PCs and Macs over the years, but I forget most of the details half of the time. I'm constantly amazed by how much people know here. I figure that helping with some of the problems is the best way I can contribute to this forum. My knowledge of military hardware, tactics, history and physics is not up to par of a good number of people on this forum. If you're doing network administration on top of your normal duties, then I really have empathy for you. Hopefully the extra effort is paying off for you in some way. Sosabowski - if you decide to get another video card from your "system builder/friend" I would suggest trying to get one with 8 or 16Mb (if you can afford the difference). This will help you with the large number of textures in the game and upcoming mods. [This message has been edited by Schrullenhaft (edited 06-18-2000).] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 20, 2000 Author Share Posted June 20, 2000 Well, after I downloaded and installed the drivers, the computer went well, nuts. My parents almost had my head until I called my friend up and desperately asked him for help. My mother said if CM didn't work, we would return it! The horror! So, the guy comes over, gets our computer back to normal and I show him the problem. Easy solution: we need a new directX version-if that doesn't work, we just get an accelorator-which I'll galdly pay for. All is well again-thanks guys! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apoc Posted June 23, 2000 Share Posted June 23, 2000 Similar problem, but the solution was easy. Control Panel >> Logitech Mouse >> Pointers >> Use Default. All my CM related video problems went away. Try it out and see if it fixes your game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted June 23, 2000 Author Share Posted June 23, 2000 The mouse is already out of the house. I've run CM in software mode (IT WORKS! ) even though it's slow. I'm going to install DX 7.0a soon and make sure my Windows themes and mouse pointers are "default". Thanks again guys-I knew good would prevail over evil! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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