Win98SE Mouse Flickering

[Zarakost]

Does anyone else have trouble with a flickering mouse in MOO2? It flickers whenever I move it, like it's skipping every 2nd frame. And just so you know, I'm running the Windows exe, not the DOS one. I didn't notice this last time I played with my old PIII800, so maybe it's my latest upgrade...

System Stats:
Athlon 2500+ XP
512MB RAM
nVidia ASUS GeForceFX 5200
Win98SE

As for drivers and such, I have:
Latest nVidia drivers (v45.23)
DirectX 9.0b, I think (v4.09.0000.0900)

Fingers crossed that someone knows how to fix this, I was looking forward to a bit of nostalgia

-Brett

[vmxa1]

I have not noticed it. I played last night on my 98SE PC. I have not upgraded anything except direct x on that pc. It is 9.0b as well. The video is Geforce III, IIRC. It is a Pent 1.7GH with 512MB.
I normally do not use this machine much, only to play a few older games that XP is not very fond of.

[Zarakost]

Doh... Inspired by this, I tried re-installing. Several ways, actually...
1) Running from CD, v1.2
2) Running from HDD, v1.2
3) Running from HDD, v1.31

Still no luck But at least I know it's not an install issue.

-Brett

[Zarakost]

Hmm, turns out I was using DX 9.0 or 9.0a. Upgraded to DX 9.0b with no luck. Also tried the latest nVidia drivers (only came out a few weeks ago), again with no luck. Guess my MOO2 days are over.

-Brett

[vmxa1]

Try setting the desktop to 800 and 16 bit and see what happens.

[Zarakost]

Thanks for the idea, but it's still not working...

Though your idea got me thinking, and I just realized: why not try the DOS exe? I've never run it before, but it turns out that it works just fine! The animation is a bit slow but hey, at least I can play MOO2 again

So once again, thanks for the feedback vmxa1.

-Brett

[vmxa1]

Yahoo.

[matthead]

Late reply, I know. I didn't notice the thread until now, though. Unfortunately I don't have a solution, just more info about the problem.

This happens for me on my computer: an Athlon XP, running Windows XP, with a GeForce 3 video card. I notice that when I install Windows XP from CD, the initial drivers Windows provides don't have the problem (but are noticably slower in new, 3d-intensive games). It's only when I install NVIDIA or OEM drivers that the mouse flicker comes up.

Same as Zarakost, different versions of the driver, or DirectX don't fix the problem. Also, if I uninstall the NVIDIA drivers (from Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs) the mouse flicker remains.

Setting "Compatibility Mode" on the program doesn't help either.

[Iasius]

I had the same problem yesterday after I had to reinstall WinXP. Then I remembered that I used another version of the nvidia drivers (40.52) when the problem occured so I went back to 29.42 et voilà, problem is gone.

[da_hal]

i have no problem with flickering:
athlon 1700+ XP
nvidia geforce ti-200 w/older drivers
windows 98SE
directx 9.0
standard mouse driver (ie. mouse.com)