No Mouse Cursor

[JL|TLC]

uuuh. I had the game working fine under Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit.
Then after running windows update, whatever patches were released in sept, I am not getting any keyboard or mouse input when loading up the game. No cursor shows up, keyboard does nothing.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?

[Lesseriel]

same problem here :(

[GhulCaster]

Disable steam overlay. It should work, did for me.

[teh_drewski]

Yep. Disabling the Steam overlay makes no difference for me. I can run in windowed mode no problem, but that looks like balls on a 1366x768 notebook screen. If you have a decent monitor and can cope with the smaller play area, that might be an option for you.

Going to keep looking for a solution.

[JL|TLC]

Ok, so looks like i was able to solve the issue with running in window mode, but run a few configs to mimic full screen. Run in window mode, set the resolution to the same as your monitor. You will notice this errors saying screen size will be larger then the available area, this is due to the borders around the window. Use a compatibiltiy fix below.

Set the ForceSimpleWindow compatibility fix using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7352

All will be well. If anyone has problems or doesnt want to install the toolkit drop me a line and i can send you a saved compatibilty db file from mine, that you can then just install.

[BoxerCane]

I didn't have to do anything besides taking it off compatability mode

[tweak-venetica-]

same here , was trying to get it working to tested compatibility mode .. then i forgot it on . Once i removed the marker bam it works ...

[Moogle Of War]

Originally posted by TehDude:

Ok, so looks like i was able to solve the issue with running in window mode, but run a few configs to mimic full screen. Run in window mode, set the resolution to the same as your monitor. You will notice this errors saying screen size will be larger then the available area, this is due to the borders around the window. Use a compatibiltiy fix below.

Set the ForceSimpleWindow compatibility fix using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7352

All will be well. If anyone has problems or doesnt want to install the toolkit drop me a line and i can send you a saved compatibilty db file from mine, that you can then just install.

Same problem here,
if this fix does not work, try using Windowed Borderless Gaming[westechsolutions.net]. a 3rd party tool that mimics full screen.
i've found the microsoft compatibility fix mentioned above does not always work but if found that this works great!

[irwinryan]

You didn't mention what graphics card you are using. I know NVidia graphic drivers for WIN 8.1 have a problem running DS2. The game use to run for me perfectly in Win 8 until I upgraded to Win 8.1 and then while I could load the game, the cursor wouldn't move properly.

After investigating possible solutions on the Net, the only one that worked for me was to choose integrated graphics for the preferred graphics processor option for DS2 in the Nvidia Control Panel.

Luckily DS2 depends more on the CPU for performance than the graphics processor so even with Intel 4000 HD graphics it runs well. Obviously this won't help you if you don't have a NVidia Card or integrated graphics and I think the option to even switch graphic processors only exist in later versions of the NVidia Control Panel.

[Nibiru]

I put this comment into a similar 'no mouse' thread for this game.. and I still have no resolved it but will try the suggestions above then reply back.


I also don't have my pointer once I launch the game. Once I go into the ds2videoconfig.exe it comes up telling me I don't have a good enough video card or one that has 32mb of video memory.. I have an Nvidia GTX 1070 with 8GB.. so I don't know what else to try. Any ideas?

[Nibiru]

Well... none of this resolved the issue for me. I have Windows 10, have an Alienware Area 51 r2 with i7 6800 @ 3.4GHz, 32GB DDR5 and Nvidia GTX 1070. I have a 256GB SSD as drive C: and Steam is installed on it. Otherwise I have a Logitech G502 and everytime I run the game it locks up on the main menu and the mouse pointer doesn't exist but if I move the mouse then I can see it popping in and out on the screen. I also have 2 x 27 inch Asus 4K UHD monitors and my mouse pointer can be seen flickering into the other monitor but that's the only activity of my own doing that I see in the game.. Otherwise nothing works.

I tried all the above suggestions and it still does the same thing. Good thing I played DS2 when it first came out back around 2002. I just got it today for nostalgic purposes, So I think my best bet is to ask for a refund... though it was only $7.00.. so we'll see.

[[BRE] Pierre]

still no solution for this problem?

[Road to Herald]

Originally posted by Nibiru:

Well... none of this resolved the issue for me. I have Windows 10, have an Alienware Area 51 r2 with i7 6800 @ 3.4GHz, 32GB DDR5 and Nvidia GTX 1070. I have a 256GB SSD as drive C: and Steam is installed on it. Otherwise I have a Logitech G502 and everytime I run the game it locks up on the main menu and the mouse pointer doesn't exist but if I move the mouse then I can see it popping in and out on the screen. I also have 2 x 27 inch Asus 4K UHD monitors and my mouse pointer can be seen flickering into the other monitor but that's the only activity of my own doing that I see in the game.. Otherwise nothing works.

I tried all the above suggestions and it still does the same thing. Good thing I played DS2 when it first came out back around 2002. I just got it today for nostalgic purposes, So I think my best bet is to ask for a refund... though it was only $7.00.. so we'll see.

dont give up on this game its a gem

[[BRE] Pierre]

srsly i gave up. nothing i can do rn

[CorporateFatCat]

The Windows 10 Creators update is the current culprit of this problem. It's not only DSII but other people are reporting other games that are having the same cursor issue as well after the Creator's update. I guess we'll have to wait for microsoft to find out where they f****d up.

[Crispin]

What about us on win7 ?