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First post, by tomservo6

Posted on 2002-12-06, 16:48

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I am running W2K and most DOS games work pretty well (without sound). Running them with VDMSound seems to work good for sound. However, Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny seems to be having problems with the mouse. The mouse cursor just sticks in one place in the middle of the screen and flickers if I move the mouse. This happens if I use VDMSound or not (although running the batch file with VDMSound makes it not load at all). I downloaded mouseset but there are no instructions on how to use it and when I double click on the program a DOS box just pops open and closes so I assume I'm not using it correctly. Also, if I use mouseset, can I also use VDMSound at the same time? Mouseset might not be the solution but I'm just trying to get the mouse to work in Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny.

Reply 1 of 6, by Stiletto

Posted on 2002-12-06, 18:24

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Another one with MOUSESET issues, Vlad...

Hey Vlad, have you looked at that MOUSECTL.COM utility yet? Think it could be integrated into MOUSESET?

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Reply 2 of 6, by Nicht Sehr Gut

Posted on 2002-12-06, 22:00

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In the meantime, perhaps this can be run on DosBox? Its minimum requirements are a 386SX, so I think it's at least a possibility.

If all else fails, there is an Amiga version available.

Reply 3 of 6, by vladr

Posted on 2002-12-07, 18:03

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Symptoms described have nothing to do with MOUSESET and the problems that it is supposed to fix.
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Stiletto wrote:

Another one with MOUSESET issues, Vlad...

Hey Vlad, have you looked at that MOUSECTL.COM utility yet? Think it could be integrated into MOUSESET?

Reply 4 of 6, by Stiletto

Posted on 2002-12-09, 19:03

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Okay... in the future, I'd like to see MOUSESET become an all-in-one utility for attempting to fix MS-DOS game mouse issues in Win2000/XP... if not by that time you've lost interest - well, what the hey, it's open-source, if not you, someone will pick it up.

It's still an odd issue. And it sounds similar to MOUSESET issues, except instead of being stuck in a small window, it's stuck in one place, period.

Anyhow, tomservo06 (nice name!), MOUSESET is a TSR, I.E. it must be activated before your game within the same command-prompt window. If you must, use a batch file, or plug it into your VLP settings for this particular game if you use VDMSound Launchpad. (I hope you know what a TSR is by now...)

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Reply 5 of 6, by tomservo6

Posted on 2002-12-09, 19:14

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I tried it in dosbox and it does indeed work with both sound and mouse. Now I can't seem to get Arkania 2 to work. I'll start another thread.

Reply 6 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2002-12-09, 20:06

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Good deal. Closing thread: RESOLVED.

Yes, it’s my fault.

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