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Morphing Mouse Cursor
- Anyone else have thisd annoying bug happenign to them? One second my mouse cursor is normal 2nd it morphs into a ton of arrows then into a garbled mess of stuff kinda funny yet very annoying.
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- Do you have pointer trails enabled ?
Control panel/mouse properties/pointer options
Asrock K8NF6P, AMD64 3200+, 1.5GB RAM, Palit Geforce 8400GS 256MB, 500GB Maxtor SataII, Asus 1814BLT optical - Nope sure dont I only noticed it after I hooked up my 2nd Monitor using a Radeon HD 4870 Video Card.
- Are you still having this problem, Nakay? It sounds like a driver issue.- Nick
I'm having a similar issue, except my cursor will "morph" to about four times it's normal size, and remain that way until restarting.
It looks like it may be related to AMD/ATI's recent Windows 7 Catalyst driver build.
There's not much information to go on at this point, other than I can confirm that the mouse cursor wasn't acting this way before installing AMD/ATI's driver for my HD 5870.
This is on a fresh load of Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Rageaholic, I'm experiencing the exact same issue as you. I have ATI HD 5850 on Win 7 Pro x64, and the mouse cursor grows huge after a certain period of time.
If you find a solution please post it.- Has anyone who is experiencing this issue tried the 9.11 beta drivers yet?
- I am having this issue as well and it is driving me nuts.
I, too, am running a ATI 5700 series card. As I understand it - the 5700 and 5800 use similar drivers. I am also running dual monitors. The strange thing is - the left monitor (#2) shows the mouse pointer at the correct size. The right (primary) monitor shows the mouse pointer about 4x the normal size.
I am running Windows 7 x64. This is a fresh install on a new machine.
I downloaded the latest ATI drivers --- but it didn't help. At random times - the mouse pointer just gets huge. Very frustrating! Maybe I should have paid more attention to those Mac vs PC ads....LOL - Sp4rkR4t, thanks for mentioning the beta driver. I didn't even know there was a Beta driver, it solved some issues for me, but not the mouse pointer.
Here is a list of issues I had/have with 5850:
- (Still an issue) Cursor scales itself automatically, only way to fix is to turn on trails. (which are distracting, atleast for me)
- (Not an issue) Windows experience test kept crashing and giving me the "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error, during the "windows media player tuning" test. Because of this glass would randomly turn off, and I have to turn it back on by using the repair desktop functionality.
- (Not an issue) If I tried to play high definition video with hardware acceleration turned on my system to crash and give me the "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error, at this point i'd have to press the reset button.
So I'm happy to say that two important issues of the three have been solved. I'm going to stick with the Beta driver for now, and keep waiting until they fix the mouse pointer glitch as well. Got ATI 5700 and Windows 7 32bit. Using HP LP2465 as primary and HP vs19e as secondary. Huge cursor after a few minutes on primary but normal on secondary.
- is there a fix for this yet? im still having the same problem since the installation of my ati 5850.. any news would be great !
borjoyzee, I upgraded my bios to the latest version, and that has solved it.
It looks like ATI has come out with a fix: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx- Long time, no report. Sorry guys.
The solution I came up with was to disable ATI's Powerplay. The easy way of going about it was to download AMD's GPU Clock Tool, and manually set the GPU's clock frequency.
Long story short, this Powerplay feature lowers the clock rate of your GPU to lower levels in an effort to save power/reduce heat + fan noise. At the lower settings, glitches like this one creep up. Videos also cause problems at these low clock speeds, like total system lockups.
If you're worried about voiding your video card's warranty, don't use the tool to go above your card's stock speed. I know the HD 5870 is 850MHz, but I'm not sure of the others. borjoyzee, I upgraded my bios to the latest version, and that has solved it.
It looks like ATI has come out with a fix: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx
On record, I have the Catalyst 10.1's installed now, after re-buying another HD 5870, and the problem persisted. That's why I'm here now reporting the solution.- Rageaholic,
Thats a sad thing to hear, guess I will not be upgrading to 10.1...
On the other hand, I'm currently using the 9.12 hotfix, and haven't had the mouse pointer issue come back.
Since you mentioned something about video play back, I have noticed a problem playing silverlight videos in full screen mode.
I experience a "driver has failed but since recovered..." baloon in the taskbar area near the clock. After that my screen turns off then on, and the refresh rate is something like 1 frame per 30 seconds. I usually have to reset my computer after something like this.
Let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, have you experienced something similar? Rageaholic,
9.12 here as well, and yep same problem.. mouse cursor is good, but i can't run silverlight in fullscreen either.. happend to me lastnight.. about yeah 1 frame every 30sec's.. driver totally crashed & couldn't recover.. running ati 5850..
Thats a sad thing to hear, guess I will not be upgrading to 10.1...
On the other hand, I'm currently using the 9.12 hotfix, and haven't had the mouse pointer issue come back.
Since you mentioned something about video play back, I have noticed a problem playing silverlight videos in full screen mode.
I experience a "driver has failed but since recovered..." baloon in the taskbar area near the clock. After that my screen turns off then on, and the refresh rate is something like 1 frame per 30 seconds. I usually have to reset my computer after something like this.
Let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, have you experienced something similar?
alright the problem with the silverlight (and any flash based video you play in full screen) is that you have to right click on the video and go to settings and deselect the option for hardware acceleration. since i have done that i have yet to experience any problems with lockups when in fullscreen. goodluck!Rageaholic,
9.12 here as well, and yep same problem.. mouse cursor is good, but i can't run silverlight in fullscreen either.. happend to me lastnight.. about yeah 1 frame every 30sec's.. driver totally crashed & couldn't recover.. running ati 5850..
Thats a sad thing to hear, guess I will not be upgrading to 10.1...
On the other hand, I'm currently using the 9.12 hotfix, and haven't had the mouse pointer issue come back.
Since you mentioned something about video play back, I have noticed a problem playing silverlight videos in full screen mode.
I experience a "driver has failed but since recovered..." baloon in the taskbar area near the clock. After that my screen turns off then on, and the refresh rate is something like 1 frame per 30 seconds. I usually have to reset my computer after something like this.
Let me know what your thoughts are on this matter, have you experienced something similar?
