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First post, by bjwil1991

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I decided to swap boards around, and the issue with one of the games I have installed (Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius) had an issue with the GeForce2 MX400 and GeForce 6200 AGP being the main card only without the VooDoo 2 card, which made the game not load and crash. After I installed the VooDoo2 card back inside my desktop, the game starts without issues, but, there's an issue: the mouse cursor disappears when I play the game.

My question is: how do I get the mouse cursor back for certain games? Other games, like Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising, run with the GeForce 6200 AGP card without issues.

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Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

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Voodoo2 doesn't support hardware cursors. This is by nature of being a secondary 3d video device that does not intend to drive Windows. Games that implemented mouse cursors and supported the Voodoo did it the hard way of either drawing into the buffer directly (most Direct3D/Glide stuff) or render a texture on a plane (GL / the rest). Jimmy Neutron is well past the era of secondary 3d video cards so it's not really a shocker.

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Reply 2 of 2, by bjwil1991

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That's what I was afraid of. The VooDoo3 card that I have shows the cursor, but, not very well also. I wish there was a way to have my Riva TNT2 card and GeForce 6200 PCI card in the same machine without having to switch the settings in the BIOS for changing the cards back and forth. Ah, well. At least it works, I guess.

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