July 25, 2003, 19:31
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a black square over the cursor
I recently bought a new computer with windows xp and now when i try to play AC, there is a black square over the cursor...
i have direct x 9.
any ideas??
the game worked great until the new comp
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July 25, 2003, 20:39
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weirdest thing ive seen is the cursor changing to a workers head 
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July 25, 2003, 20:48
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Have you installed the win2000/XP compatibility upgrade?
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July 25, 2003, 21:30
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Rubin, I have installed the latest patch I can find, unsure if it includes any compatibility upgrade.
Also, I didn't buy the comp. I built it. Went flawless. Most games play well under xp, not all.
AC plays fine, but it has a blacked out square over the cursor that makes the game anoying.
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July 25, 2003, 21:36
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Well, I hope we can solve your problem.
See this post for the latest patch. Check the game help menu to see your version number. It should read v5.0!
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July 26, 2003, 08:04
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I have 2.0 for alien crossfire, however, i did not patch AC before installing alien crossfire.
And i'm talking about alien crossfire, not the original, i should have made that clear i guess. sorry.
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July 26, 2003, 08:05
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i will try the compatibility patch.
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July 26, 2003, 08:18
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I believe you can safely patch SMACX v2 with the compatibility update. It worked fine on my machine. SMACX was not affected and SMAC is better than ever 
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July 26, 2003, 14:54
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I have version 2.0 for SMACX and the compatibility update. Still have the black square.
Oh well.
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July 26, 2003, 15:04
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Have you tried adding this line to your alpha centauri.ini:
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
I can send you my .ini file and you can see if it solves your problem? Don't give up!!!
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July 26, 2003, 15:20
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Originally posted by Rubin
Have you tried adding this line to your alpha centauri.ini:
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
I can send you my .ini file and you can see if it solves your problem? Don't give up!!!
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I tried that, no dice.
thanks by the way.
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August 2, 2003, 09:21
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I just found the problem! It was the darned Cursor XP that I downloaded from Stardock.
It seems that it was causing the cursor to have a black square around it.
I have to disable Cursor XP for SMAC.
All seems good now.
yay
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August 2, 2003, 17:48
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Hate those things ... always trying to sneak onto my comp by installing themselves when i visit a site.
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August 2, 2003, 19:51
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King
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Cursor XP seems to give the cursor a black "shadow" underneath in certain applications...
I've noticed it in real player too.
that's the main reason i thought of disabling it...because it caused problems in other apps
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