Missing cursor in fullscreen.

[PZ-NOOB]

Playing on the vehicles build works ok in windowed mode but when I switch to full screen my cursor goes invisible, anyone else having this bug? Haven't tried any other builds.

[Xune]

Getting the same problem in vehicle build 39.5.

The cursor has disappeared in both fullscreen and windowed borderless. Funny thing is, even quitting and restarting the game doesn't bring it back. Each subsequent restart of the game does so without the cursor.

[Xune]

There were two mice listed. The second driver was for my mouse, luckily I disabled it instead of uninstalling it. The first device is now uninstalled, I'll let you know if it keeps happening.

OS: Windows 8.1, fully updated
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6700 @ 2.66ghz, not overclocked
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6700, not overclocked
RAM: 5GB

To clarify, I have had this problem on two separate occasions. First time I was in fullscreen 1920x1080, second time was borderless windowed 1920x1080. I had been playing for a while in both cases, the cursor disappeared as I was browsing the options in the 'Esc' menu. The cursor was visible if I alt-tabbed to desktop. Quitting the game and restarting, the cursor wasn't present from the start. To fix it I had to navigate the options via their mouse-over highlights, changing to windowed 1600x900.

[PZ-NOOB]

I checked my Device Manager and it came up with only the one mouse.

Here are my specs,
OS: Windows 10 (64bit)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20ghz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
RAM: 8.00GB

Originally posted by Xune:

To clarify, I have had this problem on two separate occasions. First time I was in fullscreen 1920x1080, second time was borderless windowed 1920x1080. I had been playing for a while in both cases, the cursor disappeared as I was browsing the options in the 'Esc' menu. The cursor was visible if I alt-tabbed to desktop. Quitting the game and restarting, the cursor wasn't present from the start. To fix it I had to navigate the options via their mouse-over highlights, changing to windowed 1600x900.

This is EXACTLY what happened to me, very strange.

[Xune]

I've just had it happen again. Was in fulscreen 1920x1080, had been playing for an hour and was in the process of making a soup when the cursor disapeared. Quitting out and restarting didn't bring it back, had to change from fullscreen to windowed via highlights again.

After double checking, the second mouse device is present in the device manager again. The computer hasn't been rebooted sine I disabled it earlier, so I don't know why it's been reinstalled.

That said though, this is the only game or program I use that has a disapearing cursor problem, regardless of this phantom mouse device.

[PZ-NOOB]

I fixed it, I came to the conclusion that me being me, I broke it somehow. So I double checked all my settings and I noticed that under the controller tab, my mouse and keyboard wasnt selected/toggled, I never previously checked this tab because I didnt think my mouse would be seen as a controller, even know that is pretty much what it is.

I feel like an idiot but yeah, you can make your mouse come up by turning it on in the settings under the controller tab, Oh I'm special xD.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1340735225
Sorry for wasting your time and brain cells on this Enigma.

Does this help you Xune?

[Xune]

This doesn't sound right, I haven't changed anything in the controller tab since downloading the game, all checkboxes for me are clear.

If they do need to be checked, why is the cursor present for hours with out it but then disapears suddenly? And why does changing from fullscreen to windowed or vice versa bring it back again?

[PZ-NOOB]

My problem wasnt the cursor disapearing but it never actually being visible in fullscreen or windowless.

Your mouse disappearing half way through playing is very strange. I assume its to do with you having that second mouse present in your device manager, I would suggest experimenting with the controller tab (even if it doesnt sound right it couldnt hurt?) and restarting PZ as that fixed my cursor problems, also if you look at my screenshot, it is seeing two mouses, if yours also sees two then maybe by activating what I assume is your mouse and this phantom mouse then it might work. In any case I'm a mechanic not an IT technician I really have no idea what I'm doing half the time, I'm just running on guesses and assumptions xD.

[Xune]

I noticed, when I was exiting PZ this evening, that the screen changed brightness. I have f.lux installed to dim the screen and change the colour at sunset. The timing of the cursor disappearing might be around the time flux kicks in for me, now that I think about it.

Do you use f.lux too PZ-Noob?

[PZ-NOOB]

No I dont. Definately worth taking note the time when your mouse disappears to see if its possibly related to the application, not sure how the brightness could relate to the mouse but computers do strange and magical things.

[PZ-NOOB]

Thanks Enigma, its really cool having someone to provide information and support even when the problem is of my own doing. Project zomboid is probably the best game for support and general advice.

Sorry you couldnt find a solution for your problem here Xune, hope you can discover a fix soon. Did you have any luck looking into whether your F.lux program was interfering with your cursor?

[Xune]

I haven't, although I'm going to keep an eye on it this evening. Thanks for asking! :)

To be fair, it's only happened three times in the several hours I've played this past week. It's just that when it does it can be quite annoying to quit the game and navigate the options menu. I'm happy to sit tight and wait for the next version to release to test it further though.

[Xune]

No, my monitor's native resolution is 1920x1080 and is what I play all games at. The only time I change the PZ's res is when this glitch happens; I set it to 1600x900 to get the cursor back, then quit & reload and change it back to 1920x1080, until it happens again.

It looks like flux might not be the cause though, it came on this evening and I had no problems with the cursor.

[sthalik]

Workaround for Windows 10 4k monitors:

1) open a console window and navigate to ProjectZomboid directory
2) go to display settings
3) set scaling to 100%
4) set scaling back to what it was
5) start the game, e.g. "cmd /c ProjectZomboid64 <nul"

The cursor will appear.

NOTE: it's the important bit to do step (1) before (3) and (4).

[Xune]

Just a quick update, still happening in vehicle build 40.6.

I've played several hours in windowed borderless 1776x1000 without issue, but whenever I go fullscreen 1920x1080 or windowed borderless 1920x1080 the cursor is almost guaranteed to disappear during that play session.

It's disappeared minutes after starting the game while navigating sandbox settings, a few minutes after starting while I was walking around, an hour in while navigating the inventory to make food, and while in the esc menu as mentioned in my earlier report. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to this and I've ruled out flux starting up as the cause.

[Xune]

Ok, I'll play around in the settings next time it happens, but what are FBOs?