Mouse Pointer vanishing in Fullscreen Mode

[PastelioDibiaggio]

Edit: Config file has a couple things that may fix it, however, I'm not sure if manual editing of config through notepad is against ToS or not. If someone can confirm that it isn't, I'll post a couple things to try.

Glad someone is thinking like this. I was wondering maybe there is still the option to enable hardware cursor built in. Although I really dont think that will fix it. I also have tried installing some windows updates with no luck. Maybe one of them will work eventually. Not sure about the ToS.

[Solan]

Had to upgrade to Win 8 from Vista to fix this problem. I went from every 10 seconds getting a 2 second lag burst (due to windowed mode) to running without any lag on high settings. Sucks that they won't fix this, but was worth the upgrade for me. Good luck!

[jerico79]

same issue, i would rather not buy windows 8 just for one game.

[syklonis]

Ok since we will never get this issue acknowledged anytime soon, I been playing the game of figuring out how to get vsync to work in windowed mode. To at least have a taste of what fullscreen smooth frame-rates actually looks like. And I actually got vsync to work in windowed mode. This works for me, others can try if they want to or not, I'm just posting my findings. I know its not fullscreen with the mouse cursor but again its windowed vsync 60 fps smooth for me. (the occasional drop here or there, but zero screen tear)

1. Make sure your Vista is in Aero mode all options enabled.
2. Force vsync in your video card control panel
3. Download and run a program called d3doverider and set global to force triple buffering and vsync to "on"
4. Download a program called "Gamers Window Relocator" so its in your taskbar (this program allows windowed games run fullscreen)
5. Start up final fantasy a realm reborn and go into the settings and make sure to use windowed mode (not borderless window mode) and set to your screens native resolution (mine is 1920X1080)
6 Now click Gamers Window Relocator in your task bar and select final fantasy from the drop down game running and click "relocate" this makes your windowed game fullscreen

I know this is BS to do all this, but I am now able to use vsync in my game. This was the only way for me to get vsync to work without losing my cursor in actual fullscreen

Good luck to others if they want to try. I'm a little more at ease until we can get a direct answer on this issue.

edit- oh and I'm playing on JP servers now, zero login issues over there, testing these findings...

[Kaim-Argonar]

Bumping to keep fresh. Im losing a lot of performance due to this ridiculous bug.

[Kaim-Argonar]

Bump Bump Bump

[Kaim-Argonar]

Bumping for the night, hopefully SE see this on launch day.

[Foomerang]

I'll bump as well.