Cursor Trouble in Fullscreen

**flashadams** · 10-10-2010, 05:57 AM

I purchased Amnesia on Steam a little while back and I've been having a problem. Whenever the game is loaded in fullscreen mode, a computer cursor appears in front of everything, including loading menus and the development information that appears before the games starts. It did this on the demo as well and the problem is not present in windowed mode. Does anybody have information on how to fix this?

I am currently running a 2.66GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro 17" with 8GB of RAM and the Nvidia GeForce GT 330m graphics card with all the latest graphics-related updates installed.

**Urkle** · 10-10-2010, 02:16 PM

The other other report of this was from someone running a Mac OS X beta. What version of Mac OS X are you running? Do you have any program that might do something with the mouse cursor at all?

**flashadams** · 10-10-2010, 04:13 PM

(10-10-2010, 02:16 PM)Urkle Wrote: The other other report of this was from someone running a Mac OS X beta. What version of Mac OS X are you running? Do you have any program that might do something with the mouse cursor at all?

My version of Mac OS X is 10.6.4 currently. The only software that is in any way mouse-related is System Preferences. I should point out that the game plays perfectly fine with the exception of a cursor always in front of everything.

**flashadams** · 10-25-2010, 04:25 AM

Well, I've bumped the forum because I would like to know if there is any solution to the mouse cursor issue yet. Has there been anything discovered yet?

**jens** · 10-25-2010, 05:41 AM

I've tried it in 10.6.4 with a 320M, which is the closest we have to your configuration. But was not able to reproduce anything like this at all.

Have you tried using different full screen resolutions?

**flashadams** · 10-25-2010, 07:13 PM

Yes. I've tried both higher resolutions as well as lower ones, without luck. I experienced this problem with the demo as well, which I tried before I purchased the product, if that is any help.

**Urkle** · 10-25-2010, 07:42 PM

The game engine hides the cursor upon initialization and never changes it. Seems like either a bug in Mac OS X or possibly SDL. (As we use SDL_ShowCursor(SDL_DISABLE) )

As I can't recreate it myself it's rather hard to debug. I will try and see if I can create some quick "tests" to send you via PM to see if I can narrow down the issue.

**flashadams** · 10-25-2010, 08:23 PM

Sounds good.

**flashadams** · 10-30-2010, 02:53 AM

I believe that the trouble exists in the operating system or SDL, based on the fact that I uninstalled the game in it's entirety and deleted all the other files related to it. When I re-installed it and booted it up, the cursor appeared again as if nothing had changed.

**Urkle** · 10-30-2010, 10:40 PM

From the reading I've done it seems to be an issue where the hide cursor call is being called TOO quickly, and the display isn't done initializing. Just seems odd that it shows up on so few systems.