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Machinarium => Machinarium on Windows => Topic started by: Chocolade on October 19, 2009, 09:28:17 am



Title: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: Chocolade on October 19, 2009, 09:28:17 am
Hi,

Bought the game via gamersgate.com

Everything went great untill sometimes each 5-10 minutes the mouse cursor is gone then i have to make alt+tab to go to windows when i back to the game the mouse is gone or if i move it around i can see him in some spots only .

What i must do is to reastart the game load it again . Then i load my saved game but then after few minutes same problem .


I have : Windows vista 64bit ultimate .

Cpu : duo 2 core E6850 3.00GHZ 3000MHZ .

         4 GB ram

         Nvidia geforce 8800gtx 768mb

Thanks for the help .



Title: Re: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: Mr. Incredible on October 19, 2009, 02:10:40 pm
Try to disable the hardware acceleration of Adobe Flash.
To do this right-click ingame -> Preferences


Title: Re: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: Chocolade on October 19, 2009, 02:41:43 pm
Didnt help .

I hope the ppl who made the game will make a patch soon !


Title: Re: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: popsUlfr on October 19, 2009, 02:57:29 pm
Didnt help .

I hope the ppl who made the game will make a patch soon !


To do just that they will first need to know what is actually causing the problem! You should investigate a bit and see if another Program may be the source of the trouble...


Title: Re: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: HopefullyNotAWastOf20Bukz on October 23, 2009, 10:44:12 pm
I'm having the exact same problem.  After about 5-10 minutes of playing the game the animations become extremely choppy and the cursor randomly disappears and reappears making the game completely unplayable.  A shame really, looks like a cool game.  I tried the suggestion above in relation to disabling hardware acceleration but to no avail.


Title: Re: Help bug in machinarium every few minutes the mouse is gone :
Post by: HopefullyNotAWastOf20Bukz on October 25, 2009, 09:33:34 pm
For anyone else plagued with the same problem... disabling full-screen mode seems to have resolved the issue.  I was able to play the game for several hours straight without running into this bug.  Not the best solution, but at least it's playable now.

On a side note:  it's a pretty cool game... graphically - nothing short of incredible.  The music is without a doubt some of the best that I've ever heard in a game.  The only thing that bothers me is that it's difficult to tell which items the character can interact with vs. normal background images.  Another person referred to this as pixel-hunting and I'd say that's a pretty accurate description - it's time consuming, tedious and detracts from the overall game experience.  I spent ~30 min on the screen with the mining car before realizing that the could-have-been-slightly-more-apparent control panel on the ground was an object that I could interact with after shrinking the character.