Sticky mouse+freezes

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My mouse will often freeze out, often I cannot select many options. Battlefront needs to make the mouse cursor easier to see during game play, in my opinion.

[Schrullenhaft]

CM uses the OS's drawing of the cursor. People will sometimes have corruption of the cursor when they use customized/animated cursors. As for the mouse disappearing in CM; transparencies can be a bit problematic for the cursor and it would be nice for an "above everything" menu and cursor, but there are some problems with that.

Is your mouse freezing in CM, but the keyboard still working or is CM completely freezing up ? What mouse do you use and what driver ? Are you on a Mac or PC ?

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Thanks for the reply. THe mouse will become "sticky," by this I mean that it moves sluggishly and leaps from one spot to the next. I'm using a P-300, win '98. I can't tell you what specific mouse driver I'm using. Ofttimes the whole game will freeze up along with the mouse, keyboard and all. The strange thing is that I've been playing this game with no trouble since march. Thanks.

[Schrullenhaft]

You may want to check out what software you have loaded up in the background. Anti-virus utilities, on-line chat programs and various other utilities and programs could be eating up resources that CM needs to perform smoothly. Do a Ctrl-Alt-Del before launching CM and see what you have loaded. You'll want to keep "Explorer" and "Systray" at the minimum. Other programs you may also want to keep running, especially those that may be involved with audio or video (if they're useful in CM). Anti-virus utilities and print control utilities may be present as several listed programs. You can kill some of these programs from the "Close Program" dialog box or from the System Tray (for those that have an icon).

As for the "sticky" mouse, this could be the CPU being taxed a little too hard at the time of your mouse movement. Have you upgraded your mouse or video drivers lately ? Do your freezes occur on larger maps or on just about any-sized map ?

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To add a little more info: I have an optical, USB mouse. I just d-loaded its latest driver from Microsoft; no good. I unloaded and re-loaded the game; no good. THe mouse is sticky on the main screen, and is confined to the bottom on the scenario selection screen. Often it becomes "sticky;" leaping about, not moving smoothly, oftn not moving at all, often freezing out entirely. The arrow keyboard keys don't effect this screen ever, as far as Iknow. I've tried the number pad, as well as the four regular arrow keys.(I'm not running the "Logitec" option on the mouse control panel. Thanks

[Schrullenhaft]

So you are unable to move around the screen at a certain point within the scenario with either your mouse or your keyboard. Is your mouse a PS/2-USB convertible ? I'd suggest trying the mouse in PS/2 mode (making sure that nothing is currently using IRQ 12 or you will be in for a bit of a headache installing and reconfiguring anything that is using that IRQ currently). The USB bus is a PCI device and hence you may be sharing an IRQ with your sound or video card. As a PS/2 device it should have its own IRQ (always IRQ 12) and it won't interfere with any PCI devices.

Your movement limitations with the mouse sound strange, but I'd guess that they are within the realm of a IRQ conflict (sharing). However, with the keyboard not responding it sounds as if something else is to blame.