Text select pointer goes completely white colored when hovering over black text with a white background.

Question

Hello, a couple of days ago, windows updates installed a new AMD display driver. Since then, the text select pointer has been going completely white colored when I hover over black text with a white background (This happens on all websites and on both Edge & Chrome, so it seems like a driver issue) and then it becomes extremely hard to tell where the mouse pointer is, because the white color blends well with the white background. However, if I move the mouse pointer a bit and also click 1 time, the text select cursor goes back to being black colored (which is what it is supposed to be when it is hovering over black text)

Some notes:

• The machine is a Lenovo laptop.
• OS: Windows 11
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics 2.10 GHz
• RAM: 8GB
• The new driver version with the issue: 31.0.12016.9
• I clean installed windows 11 today and the issue still persists.
• Before I clean installed windows 11, I rolled back to the previous driver using Device Manager, and that fixed the issue.

Answer 1

You can change the Text Select icon to "beam_r.cur".

Answer 2

thanks so much! can confirm this works on ryzen 7 5825u with radeon integrated graphics.

Answer 3

Also works with Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U. The first real fix for this Problem. Thank you!

Answer 4

This fixed cursor on 5500U, Thanks!

Answer 5

Hi Wasem,

Here is a quick fix. Change the color of the pointer in the settings. It will work like a charm. Go to Settings > Ease of access > Mouse pointer > Change pointer color. Select a custom color.