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    cursor problems

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by darkloki, Nov 30, 2011.

  1. darkloki

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    Ok I'm having cursar problems and I don't know why I have it or where the problem is. Now I realize a restart helps or switching applications or even alt tabbing, but after 3 weeks of this I can't take it anymore it's annoying and I need to get resolved, lol. The cursor problems occur primarily in games but it's starting to be more of a problem inside of the windows environment too.

    Generally if I'm playing BF3 I don't really care because my crosshair shows no problems but in menu's it shows up. I've learned to live with it but I would like to fix it. It might be driver issues but I'm fairly certain it has to do something with the crossfire maybe.

    So I wanted to screenshot it, but I realized after taking a screenshot that your cursor never appears it's everything but the cursor when you take a screenshot. So I had to take photos of it with my CameraPhone so sorry for the quality of the pics but this is the problem I'm suffering from atm. Also I'm using 5870 Crossfire with the 11.10 drivers...

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  2. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    wow I can swear with my other laptop cursor appears just fine but with m17x it does not..... ??
     
  3. darkloki

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    My R3, i7 macbook Pro, and Desktop are all fine. My R2 which I primarily game on is suffering from this disease atm, and I'm trying to find a cure for the poor guy so he get back up to speed and on his feet. I noticed it occurrs randomly while in game, and then remaining inside the windows environment upon leaving the game.

    Annoying.... :(
     
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    75 views and nothing? Nobody knows anything about this :confused: :(
     
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    Is this in a steam version of BF3? The alt - tab should take care of it . Is this just for while your in gaming or other applications the mouse cusor acts buggy? I've had this happen to me in steam games but, it always happens for select games. So I think it has to do with the games themselves or possibly steam?
     
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    Company of Heroes :mad: