bigmaddog

I have a strange problem with my mouse in certain dos games under win2k. In about four or five of them (some run just fine), the mouse cursor appears to be confined to a rectangular portion of the screen, usually the top left, and the cursor will not move out of that area (but it will move within it). The size of this area of different for each game but it does not change between reboots/reloads for any one game. No combination of tweaks and voodoo magic that I've tried can to anything to change this. Does anyone have this problem, is able to fix it or has even heard of anything like this?

No, I'm not switching between the game and windows. Also, unforunately, the mouse fix doesn't work, at least not for the game I'm fighting with now (Ascendancy). I've tried changing the parameters (X x Y) to various numbers, from 640x480 all the way to 1024x768 and it doesn't make any difference at all in the game. I've also thought of messing with the code for mouseset (not the assembler part - the c part; the assembler bit is just plain scary), just to see what I could break, but MSVC++ doesn't like this code a lot, denying me my fun. Probably something about messing with registers that Mr. Gates doesn't apperciate.

crap! I was afraid of that. I've heard of this VDMS thiing just by briefly skimming the forums here, but it's a sound emulator, is it no? I don't know how it would be able to help me. I'll give it a shot, though. Is this a common problem, anyway? It seems like more games have it than not... Yarrr, tis not good to be postin' as drunk as I am at the moment. :x Aw crap, and now jhiccups. Tha'll learn me good for having too many scredrivers. bah...