Recent content by techie007

After many days of using the 78.01 drivers for my nVidia 6600GT card it works wonderfully. The game runs faster, and my mouse stays working.. Stupid Forceware... If you're having the disappearing mouse problem, then roll back to an earlier driver set.

OK so apparently it's a known nVidia driver problem. It just hasn't been admitted to by nVidia or something. People seem to be having good luck using the 7x.xx version of the drivers. So I uninstalled the newest ones and threw the last version of the 7x.xx series for XP in (v78.01). We'll...

I just got an Asus made 6600GT 128MB for ~$120 CND. I just went back to the last 7x.xx drivers -- hopfully my mouse will remain visible now -- we'll see.

The quest continues.. Ok there's comething NOT Civ4 (directly) related that is causing this problems. I had been using an Asus nVidia FX5200 AGP card. And it was fine except it only had a DVI-D port on it and not a DVI-I so I couldn't hook up my 2nd CRT to it. I broke down and bought a...

Just to link them togeather, we're going over this problem in this thread as well: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=152778

I'll post one when I get home to the computer in question. :) Here's an update since the last post: I completely removed Civ 4. I installed the latest nVidia drivers (I was runnig the version prior to the newest). I reinstalled DirectX (using the "December Build"). I reinstalled...

I'm having this exact problem. And when i get back to the Windows desktop the pointer is still missing. The strange thing is it worked fine for many days of use and then did it once to me. I rebooted and played for the rest of the day no problem. This time I played for about 5 minutes...