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So, when I'm playing any FPS games (or games that use the mouse to track the game environment), my mouse cursor goes invisible. However, instead of being locked to the center of the screen, it moves around freely, to the point where i have accidently minimized or closed out of my game. Also worth mentioning, this is on a laptop, not a multiple screen PC.
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated, as I've exhausted my sources of research and none of them helped.
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are you on windows 11? this is now happening to me but all I did was upgrade to windows 11. when I was on windows 10 it was great. I am temped to go back to windows 10 just for this reason.
I wonder if it has something to do with copilot.
hope there is a fix soon or I am going back to windows 10.
I have new build gaming rig, runnign th elatest NVidoa drivers and regardless of whether the game is full screen exclusive or full screen windowed the mouse floats off onto the second monitor.
Reading these scripted responses form so-called MS support boils my blood as most of the things they request just does nothing.
One of the first posts said to disable all MS background process and all startup items... absoute rubbish. This is a Windows **** issue when using multiple monitors. Gaming windows are unable to become exclusive and lock in the mouse.
This seems to be an increasing issue - many MANY gamers are experiencing this and the "enableLUA" trick does not seem to work anymore.
Can I ask that this be escullated as its literally a game-stopper.
To clarify, when we are playing first person perspective games and we're moving the mouse left and right to look around the mouse cursor drifts onto the second monitor despite the game screen being in focus. It doesn't matter if the game screen is exclusive full screen or window borderless, the mouse will still drift onto the second monitor. And should we need to press the mouse button to activate something in the game, it will click Outside of the game window.
This seems to have happened in a recent windows update and there are thousands upon thousands of gamers with this issue it needs to be prioritised. It needs to be fixed.
It's nothing to do with having to download the latest video drivers because we've all tried that it does not make a difference.
Also having the same issue... I have three displays with my games display in the middle of them and all drivers are up-to-date including Graphics Drivers.
Ryzen 5 5800X3D
RTX 3060
32GB DDR4 3200mhz
game is installed on an M.2
I had this problem too, though it seemed to only affect Steam games. My Epic games did not behave this way. However, the latest Nvidia Driver fixed it
