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Animated cursors frozen in Windows 95b

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First post, by wbahnassi

Posted on 2022-03-10, 01:49

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Hi. I have a machine with Voodoo3 PCI card and Windows 95b. Display is set at 800x600@32bit color depth. However, animated cursors are not working and are only showing their first frame.
In the mouse settings, if I click the question mark next to the mouse cursor display it says the animated cursor plays on display drivers that support it.
I can't believe that the latest Voodoo3 display drivers don't support animated cursors. Is there some secret registry value to force this somehow?

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Reply 1 of 7, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2022-03-10, 04:29

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Once upon a time, I was having trouble with the cursor, and I had to set Hardware Accelerated Cursor on or off in some file or reg key... foggy with the deets, sorry.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Stiletto

Posted on 2022-03-10, 21:46

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Reply 3 of 7, by swaaye

Posted on 2022-03-13, 06:01

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Oh man I forgot about animated cursors. I need to get some goofy themes up and running again! I agree it could be a problem with hardware cursor processing. This is why games sometimes allow you to disable hardware cursor.

Reply 4 of 7, by leileilol

Posted on 2022-03-13, 06:14

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I'd think those hardware cursor options are more for 3d cards *COUGH*VOODOO2*COUGH* that can't do a hardware cursor over an accelerated surface (for not being a desktop accelerator) so the game emulates one within its own renderer. I think Voodoo3 even had problems with that feature

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Reply 5 of 7, by swaaye

Posted on 2022-03-14, 17:42

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Oh yeah that's true too. But aren't there some 2D / Directdraw games with hardware cursor options?

But I do think I remember tweaking video driver cursor settings to make Windows animated cursors work back in the olden times. And for other reasons like Windows cursor corruption.

Reply 6 of 7, by STX

Posted on 2022-03-14, 19:06

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Microsoft wrote a knowledge base article that may be relevant:
Q123334 - Requirements for Animated Cursors

Reply 7 of 7, by wbahnassi

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:58

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Thanks STX, that KB was spot on. In my case my HDD was running in compatibility mode. After fiddling with my SATA connectors order, I was finally able to reach a configuration that made Win95 happy and run all HDDs and DVD drive at full performance. The side effect you get is animated cursors running again 😆 Who could guess!

So obviously my next step was to install Microsoft Plus! .. and hoo ray! Everything works great with themes and their animated cursors.

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