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Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Sun Jun 09, 2002 11:09 pm

Tried to install UV twice and have had no luck because when I get to the start screen there is no mouse cursor to select anything. I have a Toshiba Satallite 2805 s201 laptop with windows ME, 256 mb ram,PIII 650, S3 savage video with 8mb video, sound blaster compatable sound card, 24x dvd/cd:(

David Heath · Post by **David Heath** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 4:36 am

Hi

I forward Keith you problem to see what we could do.

David

Erik Rutins · Post by **Erik Rutins** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:04 am

Please take a look through the Troubleshooting FAQ at the top of this forum. Make sure you've checked through the points there for your system.

I would also check to see if you have a custom mouse cursor enabled. If so, switch it back to the windows default. Try checking for newer mouse drivers or testing different settings for your mouse pointer. Laptop pointing devices sometimes have unusual mouse/pointer settings and drivers that can cause compatibility issues.

Regards,

- Erik

David Heath · Post by **David Heath** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:29 am

Hi

Here is the reply I got back from Keith

David:

If he puts his desktop in 16 bit mode he could use the -w parameter and see if it works in windowed mode.

What version of DirectX does he have installed, and does he have the latest video drivers ?

KB

Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:48 am

I have the latest S3 drivers, dx 8.1 but I don't know what -w is. thnx

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 11:38 am

Have you tried to directly launch UV (UncommonValor.exe) instead of going through the start screen (UV.exe) ?

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 1:05 pm

Originally posted by Hairog
... but I don't know what -w is. thnx

Do a websearch on "command line parameters" for desktop/startmenu shortcuts. That will give you an idea. In this special case the "-w" command makes UV playable in a windowed mode.

Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:44 pm

Thanks guys for all your suggestions but I'm used to Macs and don't know what a "websearch" is. Sorry

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:02 pm

and don't know what a "websearch" is. Sorry

Ehrmmm, searching the web with a search engine like Google

www.google.com

Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:47 am

Still no luck. Tried to load it my desktop and get almost through tutorial when it craps out. I see from the forums that a lot of people are having this problem. Hope you fix it soon. Its very unerving not to be able to play a game I payed $49 on either of my expensive computers.

I do not have enough knowledge to understand what this whole business is about the netsearch for -w if you could please explain further it would be a great help.

thnx Harry

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:22 pm

Hi,

actually very very few people have this problem.

All I want you to do is to read how to apply a "command line paramter" to a desktop icon. It´s really no rocket science, just a few mouseclicks, but unfortunatly I really do not have the time at the moment to make up screenshots and guide you through it. So, I suggested you to do a websearch on adding command line parameters to a desktop icon.

Erik Rutins · Post by **Erik Rutins** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 6:05 pm

Harry,

Sorry, we've all been working long hours getting the first patch ready. I hadn't heard of any significant number of folks having the cursor problem you describe, but there are a few folks having problems that we hope the patch will address. We're doing our best, given the various sytem configurations that are possible, to make UV work perfectly on everyone's computer.

You mentioned that both of your computers could not run UV. You gave us the specs for the laptop, what is the other machine's configuration?

What you want to do to run the game with a command line parameter is to create a new shortcut on your desktop. Have the shortcut point to the uncommonvalor.exe in your UV directory. Then edit the properties of the shortcut to add a -w to the end of the uncommonvalor.exe line. So the line used to run the program would look like:

uncommonvalor.exe -w

As far as I know, windowed mode is also only meant for 1024x768 and only works well in the patch. However, feel free to try it if that's your resolution. It may help.

The most important thing for us to compare is the video, sound and mouse specs of your two systems. If they are both having exactly the same problem, I still suspect that this may be a user configuration - in other words, that you may have a custom mouse cursor of some kind enabled on your systems that isn't showing up well with UV and DirectX.

Regards,

- Erik

iancollins · Post by **iancollins** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:15 pm

Eric,

For information: I've been successfully running UV in windows mode (with the -w switch). But I had to lower the colour pallette from True Color (32 bit) to High Color (16 bit) to make it work.

It's been very stable on the Win2000 OS I have.

Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:51 pm

Thanx for all the help guys attached is a dxdiag for my desktop machine. Hope that helps

Hairog · Post by **Hairog** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 10:20 pm

Finally figured out how to add "-w" to comand line parameters. When you tell people to do it in the future tell them to put the "-w" outside the " marks with a space and to start from a completely new shortcut. thanx for your time and help. Harry

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