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So I have been having some trouble with my cursor lately. It would randomly break or corrupt itself when moving between monitors, and I was wondering if anyone knew more about this sort of thing.

I didn't have this problem when I had two monitors, but now I have 4 HP E231s and 1 PB278Q, so a total of 5 Displays. I'm using an XFX Reference R9 290 that is being watercooled, and I am using an EVGA MST Displayport hub adapter. 3 of the HP displays are on Displayport, one is on DVI, and the Asus is on HDMI. I have the 14.4 AMD Catalyst Drivers.

 

It goes away if I am trying to move a window, or if I turn on the mouse trails, but I found even having the shortest mouse trail is distracting.

 

I couldn't get screen shots of the cursor, so I had to take pictures of the screen. Here are the pictures

 

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The first two are on my desktop, the last one is when I hover over the search bar, and its supposed to become that capital 'I' thing

 

Whats also weird is that sometimes the cursor is only corrupted on some of the monitors, other times its all of them. Even If i use other applications, the cursor will corrupt into weirder shapes, and it changes how its corrupted whenever I move my cursor to a different monitor

 

It also fixes it self if I restart my computer, but it oftentimes eventually breaks itself again. I am not sure of the cause, but it usually involves something being fullscreened or moving the mouse across displays

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I don't know if this will fix it but you can try.

Right click on the desktop > Personalization > change mouse pointers > Untic the box that says "allow themes to change mouse pointers".

 

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If it isn't working absolutely perfectly, according to all your assumptions, it is broken.

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