Mouse Pointer vanishing in Fullscreen Mode

[BraveHeart85]

This one needs a bump. Same issue here with Windows Vista. I cant believe this bug wasnt fixed yet and it seems as if the game wasn't tested properly. =(

[randomnamegenerator]

Help! My mouse isnt appearing and its hard to play without a mouse!

[FayWrey]

It's not just Vista. I run XP and my cursor disappears immediately whenever I stop using it and 'flashes' in and out when I do move it. It's extremely annoying and they need to fix it quick.

[MissEliseth]

Bump.

I am running Windows Vista x64 bit. My husband runs Windows 7. He has absolutely no issues with his cursor in full screen mode using Windows 7. I, on the other hand, do. The difference is huge.. my husband was getting on average 45 frames and sometimes 55-60 fps. He plays a summoner and I am a white mage. It caused a bit of havoc last night trying to do AK instance last night due to my frames. Ex: Husband is kiting mob, getting hit, and I see full hp before it drastically hits 148 hp out of nowhere. I go "OMG what happened?" and he's looking at me like I'm crazy. He used to work tech support for many places and was even going into computer repair before switching that out to be an electrician lol Anyway.. I sat here and watched him try everything from mouse pointer options, changing compatibility options, etc. Nothing worked and he felt really bad. He said that maybe since it's such a huge issue on the forums that maybe they will get it fixed soon. However my time is running out..

My big problem right now is that someone got into my main e-mail (hacked it) and that main e-mail was linked to everything. Bank, gaming accounts, PayPal, Facebook, etc. So I had to back-up what I could and reformat. Not to mention change everything. The problem is that I can't find my Windows Vista disc that came with my PC (Dell Studio). So we downloaded a copy of it to be able to install it onto my computer hoping we could find my original Windows Vista disc, but to no avail. All of this was just before the release of early access. I played Beta P3 & P4 with my activated version of Windows Vista. Since I haven't activated Windows yet since reformatting, it says I have 2 days left to do so. The problem is.. do I hope that SE will fix this problem or do I pay to upgrade so that I can have a cursor in full screen mode? Because I seriously doubt they will have this fixed in two days. I could always try to get Dell to tell me what the activation key was for my Windows Vista if I had to, but the fact that people are confirming that upgrading to Windows 7 is fixing the problem is tempting.

It just shows that they aren't properly testing their games on older operating systems. I think they forget that Windows XP and Windows Vista aren't totally obsolete yet unlike say Windows 95 or something. =/

[Entrok]

Vista here as well, have tweaked with everything I possibly could as others have posted. Was nice to find an updated driver for my mouse.... yet....

One question I do have tho (please forgive me if it's been asked, did skip a few pages of this thread, got pretty repetitive) is:

Was this issue also present in 1.0 ??? just curious.

[bl4ckj4ck777]

Yes. I read a few pages as well and it's the same issue. It's not a vista issue or it would be present in many other games. It's not. That narrows it down to a coding in final fantasy XIV. Which means they have to come out with a bug fix in an update. However, since it hasn't been looked at so far with thousands of posts on a single thread about it since beta 1, I highly doubt it will ever get resolved.

This sucks for me in particular since in borderless window it has other sound issues, like the channels are mixed with my desktop sounds so that I hear none of the game music until I go out of the game into my desktop, then it sounds beautiful. You can see how that might be frustrating considering the other downgrades in performance previously mentioned about the borderless window selection in this thread.

So just to recap, borderless window is glitchy, and underpowered (framerate wise). Full screen is missing mouse functionality on vista, and for some reason, no one at square enix could give a single shit.

And of course I had to buy a hard copy of the game to even play it in the first place. So just because I have vista, this game becomes virtually unplayable, at least with any sound, or a mouse. Talk about missing a big target of your marketplace and shitting on your customers when they have been telling you about the problems since beta. Fuck you square enix.

[kruma]

bump, do you guys not care about a complete game-impairing bug that is in official release? Is is it really that hard to tell us when it will be patched?

[Entrok]

bump. My curiousity is abuzz. For you legacy folks, was this an issue before?

[Syamic]

This was an issue in beta and still nothing done about it.

[Musai]

...still waiting