The video game Diablo 3 is a great game, however due to its extremely vibrant and chaotic particle effects during fights it can become very difficult to see the mouse cursor.
So I’ve written a quick script for Windows users to turn on mouse cursor trails in Diablo 3. It will automatically disable the trails when you exit the game. I’ve found it helps *a lot* in being able to keep track of the cursor.
No need to download anything so no keyloggers or malware here. And it doesn’t touch Diablo what-so-ever, so no chance of being banned.
Instructions
- Copy the script code below into a new Notepad file. Save it as Mouse Cursor Changer.ps1. You can save it to any location, but I suggest just putting it in to your Diablo folder just so its always there.
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334############################################################################### Mouse Cursor Changer ## Changes the mouse cursor properties on a per-application basis. ## Author: Scott Richmond (www.strichnet.com) ################################################################################ SETTINGS:$TrailsOnValue = 6 # A value between 2 and 15$TrailsOffValue = 0 # 0 will disable the cursor trails# Application shortcut TARGET example:# powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\CHANGE ME!\Mouse Cursor Changer.ps1' " 'C:\CHANGE ME!\Diablo III.exe'##############################################################################$SetMouseTrails = 0x005D# Signature for C# system call to Mouse properties:$CSharpSig = @'[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SystemParametersInfo")]public static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(uint uiAction,uint uiParam,uint pvParam,uint fWinIni);'@$CursorRefresh = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $CSharpSig -Name WinAPICall -Namespace SystemParamInfo -PassThru# Call the C# method to edit Mouse properties:# More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947(v=VS.85).aspx$CursorRefresh::SystemParametersInfo($SetMouseTrails, $TrailsOnValue, $null, 0)# Run the application:Start-Process -FilePath $args[0]+'-w -launch' -Wait# Disable the cursor trails:$CursorRefresh::SystemParametersInfo($SetMouseTrails, $TrailsOffValue, $null, 0) - Right-click Diablo3.exe and select Create Shortcut.
- Right-click the new shortcut and select Properties.
- In the Target field, paste in the following line replacing the directory paths with your own:
1powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\CHANGE ME!\Mouse Cursor Changer.ps1' " 'C:\CHANGE ME!\Diablo III.exe' - That’s it! You can move the shortcut to your desktop or anywhere else.
Lee
hm, just a black window pops up for a moment and the game doesn’t start. I tried both ‘diablo III.exe’ and ‘diablo III Launcher.exe’
Scott Richmond
Hey Lee,
Yeah I had a few typo’s in both the script and the shortcut syntax – Diablo3.exe should actually be Diablo III.exe and I moved the ‘-w -launch’ arguments into the script itself.
I have updated the original post so use the new versions and it should work.
Tom
Same problem as Lee. black window pops up, and then nothing