Civ4 Warlords- bug problem, GHOST CURSOR

[Dman4civ]

I actually noticed this effect on the other Civ4 games, but I wasnt playing those. I noticed days ago, I prceed to start game, and during the loading, there was no MOUSE CURSOR/POINTER visible on the screen. I move mouse around with hand, and it still doesnt show the pointer moving... however, as if the pointer was there, jus invisible, you can see the selections on the menu highlight, or react, as if they cursor pointer was there. I proceeded in the game, somhow got there using no visible mouse, used the ghost cursor till my selection reacted, and or, I would somtimes use arrow keys to get to selection, pushing Enter to choose. When I finally loaded the saved file for game, there still no visible cursor, pointer, but still reacts if there is one there. Obviously, VERY ANNOYING. This just started in the last coupld days. Ive been playing the game, Civ4 Warlords, for 2-3 months now, hours and hours a day somtimes, and have not seen this problem occur yet. I proceeded to play the other Civ4 games to see if the same problem existed... it does. All the other Civ games are doing the same thing with the mystery mouse.So I proceed to start another game... I try Galactic Civillization, its not affected. The mouse cursor worked fine. Closed that, start Empire Earth III, and no affect, the mouse cursor is working fine. Returned to Civ4 Warlords, NO CHANGE, mouse is still a ghost cursor. I've tried for three days now, closing game, restarting, rebooting computer, shuttin down and leaving off for minutes, hours, days, still to no change in problem. Still just a ghost mouse cursor, ONLY in the Civ 4. i've tried Win updates online. I've tried patch downloads for game, only to have wasted my time with no change... still ghost cursor, ONLY IN game. Cursor does work even on desktop of computer, even when game running, and I ALT/TAB to desktop screen, than back to game, does not work. But would work on desktop in scenario. The mouse is a Logitech M305, USB mini-port pluggin. Not that it would change,who knew, but I've tried changed the location of the USB plug to the.
I'm a die hard Civillization IV Warlord fanatic. I just recently lost a game to cpu opponent beating me in tech race. I sense started a new one, not even 100 turns into. This problem is driving me CRAZY...
Please, anyone with insight of what to do, please advise. I wanna get back on my game. BTW, if I havn't mentioned it yet, sorry. Somone close to me did suggest I uninstall-reinstall game. And save the files of saved game. However... I cannot find the actual hardcase and hard disk, so I dont know how to re-install without having the disk.
Its driving me crazy. Sense I last posted the same message, 3 days now, I'v had 50+ people review my posting, no one replying. I've also tried updating other things on computer, windows, mouse driver, nothing still having effect. I still try to load game, and having no visible mouse cursor. Somone has got to experienced this before, and have a solution... PLEASE REPLY

 

[Dman4civ]

GUESS I FORGOT TO MENTION...

I'm jus on a laptop, Toshiba Satellite L655 model. 3G Ram, 286gHD, P6100 2.0Gh (dual core I think), 64 Bit WIN 7 Ent OS. Only a year old. Got it Oct '10 from Best Buy, and I believe I got my moneys worth. I run a lot of games on here, right now, I'm playing Empire Earth II AoS; very detail rich, fast pased, RTS and with most graphic settings to medium or medium-high, it runs descent. Few slow-mo's once in whl, i manage. But I really wanna get back on my Civ IV, and now. Driving me crazy not being able to play w a mouse cursor. The cursor is there, I can move the mouse in hand, (BTW) is a Logitech model M305 wireless infared w the USB adapter. I do play, for whatever reason, I keep thinking itll fix itself somehow. I move mouse, no visible cursor, but I see things here n there the react as if cursor pointing, so its somehow interacting, but not displaying, or processing visually. IDK!! I keep thinking the ONLY solution could be UNINSTALLING game, and REINSTALLING, to give it fresh start. I dont wanna lose game file, I"m on, though that can be fixed (copy/paste), but I dont know where my cIV Complete set case went. So... I cant reinstall without the disk. Yes, game runs ok, uptil mouse problem occured, WITHOUT game disk. So does Gal Civ, and other turned base strategy games, I've noticed, i guess its a thing with the genre of games.

Anyway, if that helps anyone helping me resolve my issue, glad to spend my 10 minutes typing that up... if not, OH WELL! OH>>> BTW, its a 15" Monitor, not that it matter much.

 

[Dman4civ]

PROBLEM SOLVED EVERYONE... THANKS FOR NOTHING... I did however get a few assistance, thanks to those whom tried, but nothing effective.

THE SOLUTION... It was merely my fualt with out realising it. Until I realised the potential similarity in timing, I never would of noticed the connection. One day, a month ago, first having the problem, I went and played with the Mouse options on my desktop, as I was playing with driver settings. I added tail and shadow to cursor arrow, customized the drag speed, etc etc. Even allowing the cursor to signal when hiting CTRL, so i can easily find cursor. Never thought anything of it. Went day or two being busy, never getting onto game, and when I did, game had no mouse. I guess game engine or CPU processor couldn't handle all detail, and the mouse options simultaneaously, idk.
Well i solved it, one day lookin back through driver settings, saw the options I changed, thought, hey "that was about the same time" Changed back to defualt, and game had its mouse. So, no mouse tails. No cntrl locator. NO shadow... oh well.