Mouse problems in AGS Games running on VMWare 6:

[amidsal]

    Hello guys,

        Have anyone tried to play any AGS games on VMWare Virtual Machines ? At first, I thought that the problem was specifically to the game, but as I started to play AGS games recently, I found that every AGS game shows the same problem. The mouse pointer becomes crazy as if it's coordinates were all messed up.
        Is this an AGS bug ? Is there any workaround ?

Thanks.

[Pumaman]

Do other DirectX games work ok in VMWare? It's not something I've tried.

[SupSuper]

Usually VM machines have a setting to "lock" or "integrate" the mouse pointer which can mess up some games. Try disabling it and see if it fixes it.

[frission]

Have you tried running it in full-screen mode? I occasionally had some mouse-sync issues running Parallels on my OS X machine, but in full-screen it always righted itself.

[amidsal]

    Hi Dudes.

Do other DirectX games work ok in VMWare? It's not something I've tried.

Yep. As uncommon as it is, looks like that the problem is not with VMWare 6 this time. Other Directx games that customize the pointer and buttons functions (using Directx API) work fine.

Usually VM machines have a setting to "lock" or "integrate" the mouse pointer which can mess up some games. Try disabling it and see if it fixes it.

I disabled it (if what you call lock/integrate is what they call grab and are functions that relates the Virtual Destop to the one in the Host). The same problem occurs. I tried to install other mouse driver, a standard PS2 mouse and it seemed to work at first, but soon I discovered the the max/min screen coordinates were all messed up (When you go all to the right, for example, and you go back to the left, the mouse meets a "wall" before the end of the screen). Strangely enough, this bug carried over to the VM OS (XP) when AGS quitted (only with the standard ps2 driver).

Have you tried running it in full-screen mode? I occasionally had some mouse-sync issues running Parallels on my OS X machine, but in full-screen it always righted itself.

Yes, I tried. In full screen, the mouse bug appear, but in the windowed game the pointer works fine.

With that in mind, I believe that there is some incompatibility with the VMWare and AGS, more specifically in the way that AGS manages the Directx Mouse Interface, cause this happens only in AGS; other games and applications that also uses Directx Mouse Interface don't show the same problem.

Any other ideas ?

Nelson