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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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sounds like a frustrating issue! A few things to try:
Check Game Settings: Look for a “Confine Cursor” or “Lock Mouse” option in the game’s settings to prevent the cursor from leaving the screen.
Update Drivers: Ensure your mouse and graphics drivers are updated.
Disable Background Apps: Background apps or overlays (e.g., Discord, Steam) might be interfering. Disable them temporarily to test.
Full-Screen Mode: Switch the game to full-screen instead of windowed or borderless.
After wasting so much time trying all the fancy stuff, not using game bar was the only thing that worked.
Remove the game bar. This worked for me!
To rephrase this question;
FPS games in particular locks the mouse to the center of the screen so the mouse wont glide across the screen and end up on another monitor. Something that interferes with this mouse locking causes the mouse to cease to lock to the center of the screen during the gameplay that initiates this function.
As we ask this question to fix this broken function that is caused by Windows 10/11, the only answers we get is to use other software or update drivers. The fact that this function in the game is broken on the operating system is not caused by outdated drivers or the game files have been changes, it is actually the windows system not allowing this function to work or be processed correctly.
It is simple, mouse locks to center of screen and not by entire window during gameplay that initiates this function. Windows does not recognize this function in games and prevents it from running, causing the mouse to no longer be locked. 3rd-Party Software lock the mouse to the entire window and does not entirely fix the issue and is only a temporary fix. Updating drivers will not repair this as they are for the mouse function and not the system process.
What we ask is, how do we repair the function so Windows will recognize the game command to lock the mouse to the center of the screen in a small box (typically a 1x1x1x1 square in the center of the screen) and to finally stop getting the basic standard answers that have been provided for years that never fixes the issue.
