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jamjyo
9 years ago
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(window's default) mouse cursor appearing whenever I click

Hi all! I was replaying the whole trilogy on PC recently, and noticed a minor annoyance on mass effect 2. Whenever I click on my  mouse in-game, the 'Window's default' mouse cursor briefly appe...
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    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    I figured out the reason:

    The problem was caused by my "Korean' keyboard.

    GTA 5 has a tendency to disable international keyboards into English only keyboards, causing ME2's cursor problem to solve itself after running GTA 5, because my keyboard is now English only (lol)

    I'll have to turn my keyboard into English-only keyboard when playing ME2 from now on 🙂 (very easy to do, one-click away).

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holger1405
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9 years ago

@jamjyo

I couldn't find anything outstanding in your DXDiag that would explain this error.

If you ALT / Tab out of the game and then immediately in again, does the error persist? 

You also could try a clean boot and test the Game afterwards. That would rule out third party program or services problems.

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jamjyo
9 years ago

Just tried them both, still the same ☹️

It really might just be the game....(format, reinstall, 1&3 doesn't have problems, etc)  Weird that I don't see anyone else having this problem.

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    holger1405
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    9 years ago

    @jamjyo

    Well, I never heard about that error here on AHQ or elsewhere, so I'm afraid that it must be something on your system.

    OK, if you ALT / TAB the error persists? In Full-screen and in Windowed mode?

    Did you tested with another mouse and/or on another USB port?

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    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    alt-tab, full-screen, windowed, all yes.

    I should try with a new mouse!

    I'll get one tomorrow (currently 2am here) and report back.

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    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    Just tested with another mouse. Its the same.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    9 years ago

    @jamjyo

    Sorry to hear that.

    According to your DxDiag you only have one hard disk, so you reinstalled the game too, right?

    If so the only ideas I have left are setting your Monitor to full 60Hz respectively 59Hz ( DxDiag shows 59.951Hz) and maybe tray the HDMI Port of your Monitor and trying different settings in the game graphic menu and the NVCP.

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    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    I'll try tinkering with that!

    Regardless of the outcome, thanks for all the advice 🙂

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    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    Holly *!! the problem solved itself!

    I just installed GTA V to my PC, and ME2's cursor problem is now gone!!

    I'm guessing the problem was related to some directx thing....

    Anyway, thanks!

  • jamjyo's avatar
    jamjyo
    9 years ago

    I figured out the reason:

    The problem was caused by my "Korean' keyboard.

    GTA 5 has a tendency to disable international keyboards into English only keyboards, causing ME2's cursor problem to solve itself after running GTA 5, because my keyboard is now English only (lol)

    I'll have to turn my keyboard into English-only keyboard when playing ME2 from now on 🙂 (very easy to do, one-click away).

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    9 years ago

    @jamjyo

    Who have thought that GTA5 could do such thing? 😉 🙂 


    Good to hear and thanks for posting the solution!

    Have fun gaming.

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    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    @jamyo I'll also add my thanks to the thread. 🙂


    You probably know this already, but Alt & Shift is the default keyboard shortcut to toggle between languages, which might be even quicker than the swapping method you use already. 

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    JustThankYou
    6 years ago
    @jamjyo Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming and posting the solution even you said it was already solved for you.

    I've been having this problem with a different game the last couple of days and couldn't find any solution after visiting a lot of websites until I ran into your post. So, many years later you've helped this fellow folk, I just registered to give my thanks to you, thanks a mill!

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