So I got Overclocked and started playing it. I got to like day two...and was starting to get into a little bit. Well, I go to talk to the patient that I had made the voice recording of and I couldn't figure out how to proceed after that.
I looked up the walkthrough on the game and it explained how to use the PDA on a patient.
I tried it every way possible, but my mouse disappears when trying to use the PDA on the patient. Apparently you have to talk to the kid, pull open the PDA and the right recording file and play it for the kid by pressing play and then another one of the buttons on it, however when I pull it up on the patient there is no way to press the second button, the mouse disappears after the recording starts playing. I think you can only skip it by using ESC which ends the recording...like you would use to skip any repeated dialogue or action.
The mouse disappears like normal. I can play it for myself(my character), but the kid doesn't hear it...what makes me wonder though is that while I cannot see the mouse or tab around to highlight, scrolling around will highlight the inventory scroll button so it is as though the mouse is hidden on the screen. Clicking the highlighted inventory scroll does nothing, but clearly the game is recognizing the mouse scrolling. So I know the mouse is detected, but it is invisible and and it's clicking functions are disabled during a Voice playback.
Obviously I am thinking I need a patch for it, but there are no patches and after extensive searches, I can't even locate anybody who has this problem.
Any ideas on what the problem is? It seems like a bug but nobody else has it.(Drivers are up to date, and correct accelerator versions are installed. running game on Vista home premium, all sys pre-req.there, no compatibility issues with any other types of games.)
I'm hoping it is user error (noobishness) on my part. Embarrassing as that is
...if it is a bug, it's unique to my config. and the game is never going to work.
* only other thing unique about this game is that I don't believe I have ever played one by this publisher/developer. Honestly though I think I am just doing it wrong. I hope that is all.
