Age of Empires III Mouse Pointer

I've recently attempted to play Age of Empires III on my Averatec 3270 Notebook. It works just fine, on all the lowest settings, with one big ol' problemo. The mouse pointer is invisible when still, and flickers about when moved. It looks like it is being drawn behind the actual game instead of on top. The only compatability issue is my video card is 32MB and the recommended is 64MB. This "requirement" has been on other games that all have worked just dandy, so I doubt that's the core reason. I was wondering if any has heard of this, and, if so, a solution.

 

This whas ones happend to me, because the game started op twice.
Maybe its the same by you.

 

Age of Empires III is a newer game - have you updated to the latest video drivers for your card? That could help.

What are the specs of your notebook by the way?

 

Using D-A-L.com's Online Hardware Scan:

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OS Information:
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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Service Pack 2.0
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS


Processor:
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Current Clock Speed 1603
Description x86 Family 15 Model 28 Stepping 0
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Name Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+


Memory (RAM):
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Bank Label BANK0
Capacity 536870912

Total Memory Deteced in Hardware: ~512 MB
Memory Reported to Operating System: 447MB

Disk Drives:
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Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC WD800UE-00HCT0
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 80023749120 (~75 GB)
Number of Partitions 2


Installed Printers:
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Name HP PSC 1400 series
Port Name USB002
Default True
Driver Name HP PSC 1400 series


Motherboard:
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Manufacturer To be filled by O.E.M.
Model
Name Base Board
Part Number
Product To be filled by O.E.M.
Serial Number To be filled by O.E.M.
Version To be filled by O.E.M.


BIOS:
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Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
Name BIOS Date: 12/15/04 09:19:43 BIOS Version: E12KA R1.03 VGA BIOS:40N1008
Release Date 20041215000000.000000+000
Version A M I - 12000415


Monitor:
PropertyValue
Description Digital Flat Panel (1024x768)
Name Digital Flat Panel (1024x768)
Screen Height 768
Screen Width 1024


Keyboard:
PropertyValue
Description USB Human Interface Device

Description Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard


Pointing Device:
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Manufacturer Microsoft
Name HID-compliant mouse

Manufacturer (Standard system devices)
Name USB Human Interface Device

Manufacturer Synaptics
Name Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad


Sound Card:
PropertyValue
Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
Description Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
Device ID PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_041214FF&REV_50\3&267A616A&0&8D

Manufacturer Microsoft
Description Unimodem Full-Duplex Audio Device
Device ID MODEMWAVE\0\{A2D780F0-1FAA-4805-B040-D32B4C236C23}

Manufacturer RapidSolution Software
Description Tunebite High-Speed Dubbing
Device ID ROOT\MEDIA\0000


Video Card:
PropertyValue
Adapter Compatibility VIA/S3 Graphics, Inc.
Adapter RAM 67108864
Description VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP
Installed Display Drivers vtdisp.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.0171-16.94.39.42
Driver Date 11/10/2004 2:31:00 AM
Video Mode Description 1024 x 768 x 4294967296 colors


DirectX Installation:
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Version 6.03.01.0148


Modem:
PropertyValue
Model Smart Link 56K Modem
Name Smart Link 56K Modem


Network Adapters:
PropertyValue
Description VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description RAS Async Adapter
Description Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Description WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Description WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Description Direct Parallel
Description WAN Miniport (IP)
Description Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless Network Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description Packet Scheduler Miniport

External Ports:
PropertyValue
External Reference Designator PS2Mouse
External Reference Designator Keyboard
External Reference Designator USB1
External Reference Designator USB2
External Reference Designator LPT 1
External Reference Designator COM A
External Reference Designator Audio Mic In
External Reference Designator Audio Line In
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
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Expansion Slots:
PropertyValue
Slot Designation AGP
Slot Designation PCI1
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The only thing I'm curious about as far as correctness of this is that this reports my DirectX version as 6 point whatever, but dxdiag says I have 9... and I know I have 9 because I manually installed it myself. But yeah that's what I got...

 

ur OS is eating all ur memory so that would cause a lot of problems too

 

What can I do about that?

 

Make sure programs that aren't needed get shut down before launching the game.

 

Any other ideas to solve this problem?