I have had a similar experience. I just recently add a 7800 GS OC 256m AGP
graphic card so I could Play Battlefield 2. Loaded up the game and the patch,
both of which have there own problems. The gaming community is in an uproar
about the game product.
During the beginning of the game expeience in the server selection process,
after I click on "join server" and proceeed to get into the actually game and
I always lose my my cursor on the screen. Once I get out of the game, I can
never get my cursor back once I get back to my normal Windows screen.
Now here is an additional symptom, I run two monitors. Two nights ago, teh
cursor would disappear over my primary monitor screen, and when I would slide
left over to my secondary monitor, ...well there is would sit, pretty as you
please. Then last night, all of the above again and this time, it would
appear on my main monitor and disappear over my secondary.
Plus, when I am in the actually game, there is a cursor/pointer represented
by the cross hairs of the pointer. It actually appears, along with a cursor
pointer for selecting in game actions, such as spawn points. But in other
aspects of the game. like the server page, nothing appears.
Now when I go to the Control Panel and click on Mouse Settings, I can go to
the "Pointer Options" tab and go to the bottom and click on "Show location of
pointer when O press the CTRL key". With this checked, atleast when I lose my
cursor pointer, I can hit CTRL and a ping will occur on the screen indicating
where the cursor is located, both in game and out of game on my normal desk
top.
One last note, I did lose the pointer while in another application besides
the game. And I experienced the same symptoms as I experienced in the game.
I am at a lose, except that it did not happen until I loaded the BF2. There
has got to be an answer some where, if you have a clue as to what is
happening, you would be spreading some very good karma!!!!
Any ideas would be greatly apprecited!
A Pirate of the Offshore type!!
