mouse pointer always "busy"

[gleiper]

Working in C3D 2010, using Windows 7-64 bit, and my mouse pointer is often "busy". (Often being hours and hours at time). By "busy", I mean the pretty little windows circle(formerly the hour glass) is always displayed as the mouse icon. I can still work in the drawing, but it is very irritating to always have to look at the thing.

When I restart C3D my normal mouse settings resume. But after I get working for a while, my friend, the hour glass circle, will not go away (even when the program is not busy). I've learned to deal with it but only because I cannot affort to constantly be reloading C3D.

Any comments or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,
Gavin

[rkmcswain]

I have noticed this also.
Same setup I think.... Win 7, 64-bit, C3D 2010 (in 32 bit mode of course).

...but no solution. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it's annoying because it take more than a mouse jiggle to get the real cursor back....

[tyronek]

I've been having this problem lately too. Again Win 7 x64.

It seems to have something to do with the AutoCAD profile. I've noticed that I can switch to another profile and then right back to my original profile and the problem goes away. Sometimes it comes back during the same session and sometimes it doesn't. I've been able to replicate this on a couple different Win7 x64 machines using the same problematic profile.

Edit: I joined over 2 years ago and this is my first post? Wow.

[rkmcswain]

It also seems like AutoCAD (and maybe other apps in W7x64..?) are not too paitient either. I get the hourglass and a lot of "Not Responding" messages, when there is a small network glitch or something else causing a 1 or 2 second delay.... It does not do this on XP.

[tyronek]

OK, tell me this isn't stupid.

My busy cursor was being caused by using the font 'Consolas' for the command line. I switched it back to 'Courier New' and it has completely disappeared. Looks like I'll have to put up with that ugly font for the time being.

Edit: Looks like I spoke too soon. It doesn't cure the problem but it makes it much less frequent.

[gleiper]

Thanks for the feed back...seems like this is a 64 bit issue. My co-worker is running 32-bit and does not have this problem. I'm guessing it has to do with lack of memory. Mine shows busy all the time doesn't matter if I'm working with profiles or what my command line text is set at.

[sinc]

I'm using Vista x64 and Win7 x64, and I have problems with busy cursors appearing more often than they should, but my cursor doesn't stay a busy cursor.

Maybe it is also dependent at least to some extent on the graphics card...? (I'm using GeForce 9600GT on Vista x64, and GeForce 9800GT on Win7 x64.)

[tyronek]

Well I don't think it's a memory issue. My workstation has 12GB of RAM and I will sometimes see the busy cursor with only C3D open and working with a small-medium sized drawing. I have one drawing with a fairly small corridor (~400m) and if I rebuild it about 3-4 times I will get the perma-busy cursor almost guaranteed. There are actually only a handful of drawings that will produce the problem -- but there isn't too much in common between them other than being drawings with C3D objects.

My problematic workstation has a Quadro FX 580. I'm not sure it has too much in common with Sinc's cards other than both being Nvidia. But who knows.

It also sounds like Sinc's problem is may be a bit different, although possibly related to gleiper's and mine. Once my cursor turns busy I'm stuck with it until I either toggle the profile or shut down the program.

[gleiper]

Maybe this is a 64-bit problem? Like I said before, my co-worker is running 32-bit and doesn't have this problem at all. Wierd.

[Coolmo]

At least you guys are just getting the hour glass. I run Civil 3D 2007 in Windows XP mode from windows 7 (laptop) and the last cursor, no matter what it is, is always sitting on top and riding with my crosshairs. If something was busy I get the hour glass, If the pointer was the last one used in a menu or dialog box, the pointer rides with the crosshairs. You get the idea.