Mouse cursor freeze

[Rich46yo]

I couldn't find this elsewhere. My mouse cursor is freezing when I start the game. It didn't start happening until recently and I can't think of a reason why. I can cntl/alt/del out the game a bunch of times and eventually it will unfreeze but its really hindering the game for me.

Thanks for any help.

[fuzeman]

Not a lot of help with the problem but why not just ‘TAB’, or more correctly ‘whatever the command is’ ( Alt Tab. ?? ) to minimize the game. That would at least ease some of the pain.

[Rich46yo]

Not a lot of help with the problem but why not just ‘TAB’, or more correctly ‘whatever the command is’ ( Alt Tab. ?? ) to minimize the game. That would at least ease some of the pain.

Yeah tried that. Doesn't minimize. Windows key does but doesn't unstick the cursor.

[Bizman]

I tried to figure out what you're talking about. While the terrain loads the cursor doesn't move but before and after is does.

Except: I have no other controllers other than the mouse connected at the moment and when I jump into a plane on the runway the cursor disappears. The video about flying with the mouse runs on the clipboard but there's no way I could find to stop or close the video, or check the "don't show" box. But when I shut down the game and restart it, it's fully normal again until I go into a plane.

Something I noticed is that the mouse GUI is not mapped into the keyboard, there's four options for that.

Another thing I would have tried is the key to toggle the mouse on and off. I thought it was "H" but that did nothing, not alone nor with ctrl, alt or shift.

One trick to try is to shutdown your Windows by keeping the Shift key pushed down while clicking Shutdown. The next boot will then start with fresh settings instead of potentially corrupted ones. Worth trying, takes only a minute...

[Rich46yo]

well when the game loads the cursor stays in the middle and just wont move. I tried variations of H but no luck.

[Rich46yo]

Now I just tried it 3 times and it works perfectly. A mystery.

[Bizman]

Now I just tried it 3 times and it works perfectly. A mystery.

Was there a Windows update that required a reboot? If so, that may have fixed the mouse issue. They say that a reboot instead of shutdown and boot does the same as the Shift trick.