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No mouse x or y axis input being read. (Windows 10 laptop)

A topic by Deathby420 created Dec 03, 2022 Views: 384 Replies: 4

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Deathby4202 years ago (1 edit)

I've been having this issue all day and haven't found any solutions to the problem.

>I download a game and run it.

>menu loads mouse works fine.

>press play and load into said game.

>wasd work just fine.

>goto move the mouse, Nothing.

>mouse is stuck in the middle of the screen.

>walk over to something i can interact with using the mouse buttons and they work fine.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue, i can play games off steam and they work fine. Even a few games off itch work fine like security booth and The smiling man for example. I've tried everything i can think of to fix the issue even to the point where i'm about to write a small script in an attempt to gain mouse functionality again but that seems like more hassle than its worth. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix it or has maybe had the same issue, i have ran out of ideas and would be very grateful for some help.

TLDR - My mouse works until game starts then is stuck in the middle of the game window and the mouse buttons work.

UPDATE: Solved. it must have been my antivirus (Comodo) blocking certain access to the game files or something along those lines. found that it works fine i just have to run everything in admin and give full access before my mouse inputs are read. hope this might help someone in the future that has the same issue.

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Evolutionary Games2 years ago(+1)

It sounds like it's just that game. The person programming it probably wrote code to disable the mouse - or failed to write code that triggers if the mouse is moved. If, as you say the WASD keys work, then the game is probably programmed to only work with keyboard and mouse buttons when needed, and not mouse movement.

If you write in the comments or the actual game or contact the game developer for support, they can probably tell you.

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Deathby4202 years ago (1 edit)

Right thats what i was thinking too. I've tried every thing i can think of from multiple screens to get the mouse to lock into the game its self too updating drivers too looking for a settings.JSON file to try and add or edit the mouse inputs.

I would say it was just the game however it has happened to me on multiple games not just one, for instance baby in yellow for example and hungry lamu do the same thing and im pretty sure those games have mouse look controls.

I'm thinking maybe its a ram issue because I'm sitting at a 83% on ram usage so that might be causing the problem however if i open a game from steam that i know has mouse look inputs it works fine.

For instance i was playing myst last night after i made this post and the mouse worked fine. I'm beginning to think its something with my ram being low or its a issue with itch games not fully loading with the unity engine perhaps?

I'm at a loss atm tbh spent all day yesterday trying to figure it out, I think today I'm going to clean as much ram up as physically possible and see if that helps any.

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Evolutionary Games2 years ago(+1)

If your mouse works on Steam games - then it's probably not your setup or PC.

It may be that Steam requires certain features before they'll release the game.

The Json file is normally only used to save certain data, so you probably can't make the game work by messing with that.

But it is possible that the games were not efficiently coded, or coded for machines with higher specs than yours, and so use up all the available memory which may cause it to freeze.

I checked on one of my games that's written in Unity - the mouse can move freely, but will do nothing unless you click on something, because I haven't coded mouse movements into the game (I have an onscreen joystick for touchscreen or keyboard controls).

You can test if on your machine if you want (it's free): https://evolutionarygames.itch.io/cloud-calming-3d (There are several layout options, you can select whichever you prefer)

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Deathby4202 years ago

Heck yea, Thank you! I got it working by running the .exe's as admin and not in the default container. Not sure why but i think my antivirus was not allowing the movements to be read or maybe because it was running in the container and the container didn't have perms to read mouse movements. I'm not sure but it works now just sucks i have to run everything as admin lol thanks again for the help, i'm glad i didn't have too go trying to edit game files and go down that rabbit hole.

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