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Invisible Mouse Cursor in Full Screen Games

Anonymous
2014-04-11T00:27:10+00:00

Hello Windows community.

As the title states, my cursor is invisible (but still works) when I try to play games on full screen mode. I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro and my computer was completely fine about 2-3 weeks ago with a visible mouse cursor. I've called Microsoft support but got little to no help, Googled for solutions for 3 days now and it seems no one else has this issue. The mouse still works: I can point and click around and it's still responsive but I just can't see it. An example of games I play with the invisible cursor is Torchlight 2, League of Legends and Batman: Origins (etc...). I don't understand what the problem is and I can't find any solutions whatsoever. My drivers are up to date, I can't recover to a previous point because it gives me an error saying all my files are still the same, and restarting my computer with certain start-up programs turned off still doesn't fix the problem. Please help! 

Thanks for reading.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-11T17:15:54+00:00

    Hi Jonathan,

    This issue might occur if the pointer trails for the cursor is enabled under Mouse pointer options.

    Follow the methods listed below to troubleshoot the issue:

    Method 1:

    I would suggest you to disable it and check for the results. Follow the steps to do so:

    • Press Windows and X keys together and select Control Panel.
    • Click on Mouse.
    • Navigate to pointer options tab.
    • Under Visibility, uncheck the box which says “display pointer trails”.
    • Click on OK to close the window.

    Check if you find the same issue. If yes, move to the next method.

    Method 2:

    Follow the steps below to change the display text size to 100 % and check if it resolves the issue:

    • Right Click on the desktop screen and select Personalize.
    • Click on Display.
    • Check the box that says “let me choose one scaling level for all my display”. Choose Smaller (100%)-default.
    • Click on Apply. Restart the game and check if the point becomes invisible again.

    Please let us know the status of this issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-17T22:31:38+00:00

    both fixes for me have not worked. I have the same problem, but its on all my games. I have fixed one game due to an in game fix but the rest have still yet to be fixed. Any other suggestions??

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-11T18:56:40+00:00

    Hello and thanks for the reply Pinaki.

    It seems like the second method did work somehow. I had to relaunch my game(s) more than once in full screen mode and it seems to have worked. Thanks very much for the reply and for your help! I still don't understand why my cursor went invisible in the first place because it worked fine for about 3 months and then went invisible. Regardless, it seems my issue has been resolved. Thanks again!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-06T04:48:46+00:00

    The method of change the scaling worked for me but, i one thing to say Microsoft please fix this as i feel this is a pretty frustrating issue and i'm sure others believe, so Microsoft please fix this issue and stop spying on us (win10)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-12T10:18:47+00:00

    Hi Jonathan,

    Glad to know that the issue is fixed.

    Feel free to ask more queries on Windows.

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