No Mouse Pointer on Main Screen

[bigjazzfan_]

Whenever I load up the game, the mouse pointer dosen't apprear, making it impossible to load anything. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. Any thoughts?

[DaAwesomeNerd]

When booting up, shake the mouse. This makes the pointer appear on the main menu. Also, don't open the Steam overlay, as this also causes this problem.

[Furyk]

hold leftshift and it appears

[AZ Pirate]

i had the same issue, thanks for posting this

[I'm RuckZuck dead!!]

In my case, it is possible to load any savegame without the visible mouse pointer. After loading any savegame, the mouse pointer is visible again and you can go to the main menu and load the correct savegame (or the latest, or whatever you have planned to do)
This is my workaround to bypass the issue...
Yes it is annoying, but it works fine ;)

[Cr0w]

This happened for me too. I found that my issue was caused by the CD key pop ups. By choosing "Do not show this anymore" and clicking accept - and then quitting the game and relaunching it, I managed to make the issue disappear for good.

[Lou the Meat Lady]

I had the same problem. If you wait until you are past the loading screens and actually in game, you can open and close the steam overlay to get rid of the CD key without losing your pointer.

[Berg]

Thanks

[suzumiya haruki]

Thanks @Lou the Meat Lady. You help me.

[gosog]

Thanks guys.

[Mick]

Having the same problem , but only with MMO's. Sometimes fixes itself after a while, and while not playing the games in question. Don't know why this occurs. Lately, it started with Lord of the Rings Online. If I can alter the game from full to window in options, the pointer returns. Yet, I need to be able to do this, and can't always highlight the windowed screen option successfully while the pointer is invisable. So, the problem can't always be fixed that simply.

[opjose]

It's a video driver issue.

Make sure you are using the default Windows Pointers, and try performing a clean install of your video drivers.

The video driver is lagging when it updates the mouse pointer bitmap.

[Mick]

How?

[Mick]

Actually looking into doing this again right now and realise as always that this is a huge pain for me. Reinstalling the NVidia because the altest ones aren't meant for my system and the ones i need alwasy need to be located on external website....it is a hassel to find and even install them this way. There are other problmes with it too, but nVida don't help me out that much with the awkwardness of how their software and my hardware.

[opjose]

Strange.

What is unusual about your hardware?

Go to Steam / Help / System Informaiton.

Cut and paste everything that appears in the window, into a new post here.
Please get everything.

This reveals how Steam (and games) see your hardware.

[Mick]

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Model: All Series
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x3c
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3392 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Supported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 23.21.13.8792
DirectX Driver Version: 23.21.13.8792
Driver Date: 10 6 2017
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1184
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 23.54" x 13.23" (26.97" diag)
59.8cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 4095 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

Memory:
RAM: 16289 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 2021220 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 9629 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1970
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected