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"Blocked" mouse cursor[message #354088]

Thu, 19 July 2018 01:59

Totuvor

Messages:5
Registered:July 2018
Location: DE

Hey there,

luckily I found a JA2 forum that still seems to have an active community so hopefully anyone can help me. Background: After years of abstinence I bought the steam version JA2 Wildfire with JA 2 Classic as DLC included to appease my arisen thirst for this game.

I already recognized the following "bug" in Wildfire. I cant click on the left browser options in the ingame laptop. So when I try to click on "E-mails" or on the tab to go to A.I.M for example I am kind of blocked. I cant move there as if there would be a wall, the end of the screen or whatever. I must press "tab" and "enter" to chose anything in the laptop. By pressing "ESC" I can close the laptop to have access to the world map and there I can move the cursor all to the left but the described "bug" appears again as soon as I open the laptop.

This strange circumstance doesnt appear in the DLC JA2 Classic so I played this game until I tried to travel more west of the land like to Estonia or San Mona. The similar issue appears so that I cant move the cursor more left than Cambria as soon as I want to set a travel target for my troops. So half of the world map is blocked for me.

I started Wildfire again and next to the "laptop wall" there is the same "world map wall" when setting a travel target like in Classic.

What can I do? No one else seems to have this problem and by using Windows 7 I even dont have Windows 8 or 10 which seem to cause more problems.

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #354089 is a reply to message #354088]

Thu, 19 July 2018 11:49

silversurfer

Messages:2787
Registered:May 2009

Are you playing the game in windowed mode? If so you could try "CTRL" + "z" to lock/unlock the mouse inside the game window.
Or maybe you have another application in the background that has its window borders where this "wall" appears in the game? Windows sometimes does strange things to JA2.
Maybe ALT tabbing out and back in the game helps? (Don't forget to press ALT again once back in the game because it gets stuck when tabbing out.)

Wildfire Maps Mod 6.07 on SVN: https://ja2svn.mooo.com/source/ja2/branches/Wanne/JA2%201.13%20Wildfire%206.06%20-%20Maps%20MOD

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #354093 is a reply to message #354089]

Thu, 19 July 2018 21:10

Totuvor

Messages:5
Registered:July 2018
Location: DE

The game automatically starts in fullscreen and I dont have any setting in the ingame options to change it to windowed mode. Besides I am not a fan of windowed mode but as described this isnt the case here.

I just have opened tabs in my browser, but I minimize it always before running a game so it is down in the windows taskbar. For testing purposes I closed every possible application also Discord etc. but without ingame influencing success. It would have been strange if this would have been the cause because the bug should be there all the time then and not just when setting a travel target?

I also tried the Alt-Tab tipp but after tabbing in again my mouse is still blocked when trying to set a travel target more west than Cambria.

Thanks for the tipps so far happy

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #354297 is a reply to message #354088]

Fri, 10 August 2018 22:32

Totuvor

Messages:5
Registered:July 2018
Location: DE

No more ideas anyone? not sure

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #354298 is a reply to message #354297]

Fri, 10 August 2018 23:14

awatz

Messages:42
Registered:August 2002
Location: Philippines

Not sure if its compatible but try launching the game using the INI editor. There is an option for windowed mode

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #355640 is a reply to message #354298]

Sun, 04 November 2018 15:58

Peco

Messages:2
Registered:November 2018
Location: Germany

Hi there i got thsi problem too
it happens while playing

i tried everythign i found with google

the only one that works was

rightclick on the icon at desktop
preferences
register compatibility
and choosing
disable high dpi scaling.
after i activatet this i can move the mouse while travel target set over the full screen

i hope that willw orks for you too

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #355641 is a reply to message #354298]

Sun, 04 November 2018 16:01

Peco

Messages:2
Registered:November 2018
Location: Germany

Hi there,

try rightclick on the game icon
preferences
campatibility
enable the option disable high dpi scaling
and start the game

it works fine at my win7 64bit on a 1440*900 panel

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Re: "Blocked" mouse cursor[message #356287 is a reply to message #354088]

Sat, 29 December 2018 23:05

Totuvor

Messages:5
Registered:July 2018
Location: DE

Thanks Peco.

I figured this out on my own when Anno 1404 also made similar problems when running. This setting also works with Jagged Alliance then.

Nevertheless thank you for all of your efforts. Maybe someday this will help other people aswell happy

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