Win 8.1, no mouse in the game panel
 

Fired the old dog up for giggles and grins, but can't get my mouse to work so as to select missions, options, etc. Tried changing compatibility mode to Win7, but no joy. I had the sim working in Win 8.1 before, but it's been a while, and something must have changed somewhere. I checked Task Manager, and saw that there was no "not responding" notation next to it/ Need a little help.
thanks! Flyby out

graphic card?

re GPU
 

GTX 770 2mb VRAM

I am having similar problems on my notebook, but it is an AMD. The desktop becomes bigger than the screen, and the mouse disappears. It works fine when using a lower resolution. Still, when applying something like 1024x768, it reduces desktop size to the actual pixels, and on a 1920x1080 screen, that is like using a small centered square to play the game.

On 1920x1080, the mouse is unusable.
You may try to lower the resolution to see what happens. Maybe it is not an ATI problem but some late update that affects win 8.1. I still haven't found a solution.

Well, I attacked it on the windows part, and I got success at least on my problem.

There is an option on:

SCREEN RESOLUTION
Make text and other items larger or smaller

Originally it just shows you a bar with a zoom level, that appears to be centered. If you select "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays", you will learn that it is set to 125%

Checking this and setting it to 100% solved my problem, and also allowed mouse use again.

good luck,RP
 

I've come to believe that some MS win8.1 update is not compatible with this sim. Oddly, it worked flawlessly before. Then one day I fire it up (HSFX version first, then the stock version) after letting it sit for months, and suddenly no mouse. I tried a suggestion to chance the mouse setting in the {RTS] from 2 to 1, and that got the mouse working in HXFS, but only erratically. I could not select the item in the GUI I wanted; click "here", and another selection gets highlighted "there". I did discover that with this setting I could hit Escape, then Enter to exit the game. In the original version, no joy at all with that tweak. It's a shame, as I'd wanted to do some HyperLobby after a long spell away. I'll keep searching the nets. Surely someone has been there-done that (?).
Good luck!
Flyby out

RP we're out of sync
 

You have a solution you posted at the same time I posted my good luck reply. Where is this tweak you made?
thank you,
Flyby out

Found it, and it worked for me too!
 

thank you so much. I don't have any hair left to pull out! :D
Flyby out

It solved your problem too, or you are just about to buy a wig? ;)

There was a thread about this new update forced setting posted somewhere. After loosing a lot of time trying to call guilty the catalyst driver, I started to suspect it was innocent after your post! When you answered you got a nVidia with a problem similar to mine.
I changed my troubleshooting approach, and voila!

So, thank YOU!! :D

I did what you did
 

I can now use the GUI with my mouse. There is one other problem i have. It's with the HSFX updater. It tosses an installation error.I have a newer and incompatible version of MC++. I have ++2013, and it seems to require ++2010. Got any clues for me?
thanks again,
Flyby out