Mouse control lost in windows 10 (RESOLVED)

[RickRuski]

Hi fellow simmers,

I have a problem with mouse in game pointer since the upgrade to windows 10. Mouse works fine in all other situations except with il2. The sim starts ok, but when the selection screen is available and I move the mouse to make my selection the mouse pointer disappears never to be seen again. This happens every time I try to select any mission type. Has any one else had this problem??. I could do with some help with this problem.

[RayVad]

You can try to unplug all USB devices and start IL2 without them.
Is the mouse pointer staying then? If so, it probably is an USB/driver issue.

[RickRuski]

Hi RayVad,

Thanks for your reply, but my Keyboard/mouse are Logitech MK250 unified wifi with usb receiver. I have been to the logitech web site and followed their instructions for reset and that didn't help. They have said that there are no drivers or software required (plug and play).
To get over the problem i have reinstalled windows 7 and gone to dual boot system. No problem with W7 so it looks like a W10 incompatibility issue. Will have to wait and see if MS comes up with a fix, they have a list of games that are having trouble with 10. I have even tried a reinstall of Il2 in W10 but it won't even start the install.

Cheers

Rick

[RPS69]

Your problem should be similar to what happened with windows 8

It is about the desktop zoom. If it above 100%, the il2 screen looks weird, and the mouse dissapears.

[RickRuski]

Thanks for the suggestion RPS69, yes I am running desktop at 125% because of bad eye sight (cataracts). Tried taking it back to 100% but still have the same problem, mouse cursor just disappears completely, (that's the gold in game cursor) and it is only happening with windows 10 and not with windows 7.

Cheers

Rick

[RPS69]

I will be downloading windows 10 next weekend and will try it and see if I can reproduce the same problem.

[RickRuski]

Give me some feed back on that please RPS69, I've had 10 run a compatibility check for me in W7 mode still no good. The answer that it came back with is:- "Program Incompatible". doesn't sound good at this stage. It has sent report to Microsoft. Glad I reinstalled W7 as dual boot system.
Cheers

Rick

[Cloyd]

Same problem for me and I couldn't find a simple solution in settings. What I did is create another user whose desktop is at 100%. When I want to use IL2, I switch to that user. No mouse problem there. (Make sure to update your Nvidia driver. It wouldn't work for me at 100% until I updated the driver. There was a new driver released in just the last day or 2.)

Cloyd

[RickRuski]

Thanks for that suggestion CLoyd,I've already tried that. Even got to the stage where I thought the modded version may be the problem but the same thing happens even with the stock game. All systems are up to date (running display driver 355.60 which is the latest).

cheers

Rick

[RickRuski]

Thanks to all who offered suggestions for me to try, I have now got everything OK thanks to a suggestion by Forager at mission 4 today.

Here it is for anyone else having the same problem in windows 10:-

Settings/System/Display.

Set slider back to 100%.

Boy do I feel a fool, I thought I had reset all controls that I had tried during testing but I had missed that one.
Once again thanks to all who had given me things to try.

Cheers

Rick

[RPS69]

Well... that was what I was talking about. Now I'm looking for the other adjustment you made.
That same solution was posted before, here, someone suggested to make it a sticky. Maybe it is time to do so.

[Jumpy]

Well... that was what I was talking about. Now I'm looking for the other adjustment you made.
That same solution was posted before, here, someone suggested to make it a sticky. Maybe it is time to do so.

I have Win7 Professional 64bit. I downloaded Win 10 and got the 'blue screen of death.' Maybe Win 10 is just Win 8 with a number change: grin: