Vista Gaming & Mouse Pointer Shadow Bug

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Hey guys I have discovered a minor Vista bug. I have enable pointer shadows
checked under mouse properties. I have noticed that whenever I exit most
games (for example the DiRT Demo or GRAW2 SP Demo) and go back to the Vista
desktop, the mouse pointer shadows is unchecked under mouse properties. If I
restart my pc, then the correct setting is back. So basically after exiting
the game, Vista for some reason still has the pointer shadows disabled. I
can see why it would disable it to run the game, but it seems to me that it
should go back to enabled after exiting. Thanks.

mhajii210

"mhajii210" <mhajii210@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9349CC31-B29C-4D56-9EA5-FE34E7FDE1B2@microsoft.com...
> Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
> ASUS P5N-E SLI nVIDIA nFORCE 650 SLI (0608 BIOS)
> Intel Core2Duo E6420
> CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB KIT
> EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB PCI-E
> SEAGATE 250GB ST3250620AS SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
> PCI Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
> Westinghouse LCM-22w3 Black 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
>
> Hey guys I have discovered a minor Vista bug. I have enable pointer
> shadows
> checked under mouse properties. I have noticed that whenever I exit most
> games (for example the DiRT Demo or GRAW2 SP Demo) and go back to the
> Vista
> desktop, the mouse pointer shadows is unchecked under mouse properties.
> If I
> restart my pc, then the correct setting is back. So basically after
> exiting
> the game, Vista for some reason still has the pointer shadows disabled. I
> can see why it would disable it to run the game, but it seems to me that
> it
> should go back to enabled after exiting. Thanks.
>
> mhajii210


Sounds like the games on exit are making the appropriate system change (such
as reverting a registry key to its original value), but not refreshing the
system properly. If the games were originally written for XP, then they may
be calling routines that work slightly differently in Vista and would hence
need to be updated.

--
Jon

mhajii210 wrote:
> Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
> ASUS P5N-E SLI nVIDIA nFORCE 650 SLI (0608 BIOS)
> Intel Core2Duo E6420
> CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB KIT
> EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB PCI-E
> SEAGATE 250GB ST3250620AS SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
> PCI Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
> Westinghouse LCM-22w3 Black 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
>
> Hey guys I have discovered a minor Vista bug. I have enable pointer shadows
> checked under mouse properties. I have noticed that whenever I exit most
> games (for example the DiRT Demo or GRAW2 SP Demo) and go back to the Vista
> desktop, the mouse pointer shadows is unchecked under mouse properties. If I
> restart my pc, then the correct setting is back. So basically after exiting
> the game, Vista for some reason still has the pointer shadows disabled. I
> can see why it would disable it to run the game, but it seems to me that it
> should go back to enabled after exiting.

Hmm... always quick to blame the OS :-)

The games are making the change - unfortunately, they don't seem to be
setting it back. Maybe you can find a patch for them from the
manufacturer's website?

Alun Harford