Disappearing mouse pointer/cursor in Vista high DPI

[Sir Og]

I recently installed Civ4 BTS on a Win7 (it's the same as Vista) machine.
I am using a 37'' LCD TV as my display and I have set the DPI setting to 192 DPI instead of the default 96 DPI.

The problem is that in Civ the mouse pointer is not visible. The mouse is working correctly (I can click on things, etc.) but since I can not see where it is positioned at the moment it is unplayable.

On normal DPI or windowed mode the game runs normally (the mouse pointer is visible).

Does anybody have a clue how to fix this? I have messed around with computability settings and tried changing the Civ4 cursors to some of the default windows cursors but nothing helped.

 

[ori]

do you have pointer trails turned on in windows (or any other custom mouse options)?

 

[Sir Og]

No. Nothing special.
It has something to do with the way civ displays the cursor. When I set the DPI as high as I have civ tries to draw the cursor too big. I have no idea how to fix this though.

 

[Count Okula]

I had the same problem on my new Vaio laptop, which is running the preliminary version of Windows Vista. On intuition, I did the following:

1) Open: CONTROL PANEL
2) Select: Mouse Pointers
3) Disable ALL ancillary pointer behavior (e.g. shadows, trails, non-default pointer shapes, precision enhancement, Snap-To, Hide-pointer-while-typing... EVERYTHING! Just to be sure!)
4) Run Civ.
5) Enjoy!

I hope this helps someone down the line.

 

[Butterball]

I had the same problem on my new Vaio laptop, which is running the preliminary version of Windows Vista. On intuition, I did the following:

1) Open: CONTROL PANEL
2) Select: Mouse Pointers
3) Disable ALL ancillary pointer behavior (e.g. shadows, trails, non-default pointer shapes, precision enhancement, Snap-To, Hide-pointer-while-typing... EVERYTHING! Just to be sure!)
4) Run Civ.
5) Enjoy!

I hope this helps someone down the line.

The above info solved my problem with Civ IV & BtS under Vista on a new laptop. Thanks for the help.