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Dual Screen Bug

By on April 21, 2012 4:54:13 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

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Found a bug while playing. I have two monitors hooked up to my computer. I play games on the one too the left and the windows desktop shows normally on the right. Now normally, when I play a game like Starcraft 2, I can put the game in full screen mode and the mouse will stay constrained to the one screen I'm gaming on. But in Sins, even in full screen mode the mouse will trail off the gaming screen onto the other screen, making it very annoying to look around in game. I have to disconnect my second monitor now everytime I want to play sins. This wasn't a problem in Dipolmacy.

Can you guys please fix this in the next update? 

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April 21, 2012 5:03:29 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I have this issue as well. I doesn't get in my way very often but when it does, it gets really annoying.

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April 21, 2012 6:21:13 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

It happens to me everytime I launch the game with two screens connected. It's very inconvenient to disconnect a screen everytime I want to play this game

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April 23, 2012 10:34:18 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I'll ask the programmers about it.

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April 24, 2012 2:50:58 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I wasn't having this problem on 0.79 but now with the 0.80 patch I'm experimenting this as well, it doesn't matter if in the main menu or while playing in game, the mouse goes off the right edge to my other screen making it hard and annoying to move to the right (in my case).

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April 24, 2012 3:33:01 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Have the same issue in 2b .80

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April 25, 2012 8:08:19 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

guys im not having this issue - i have a 42" plasa and a 24" samsung - i play on the 24" and watch movies / brose on the 42.

now that you mention it i did on my first install beta have a glitch where any time i left cliked on the sins screen it would also pause the movie o the big screen but that only happened one and did not happen again

 

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April 25, 2012 11:20:29 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I have this happen after I alt+tab out and then back in.

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April 25, 2012 1:54:42 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I agree. This issue appears to have started in beta 0.80. I never noticed it in .79 or other previous versions.

 

Glad to know it's not just me.

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May 5, 2012 1:37:34 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Just wanted to bump this up to let you know this bug is still present and still just as annoying lol 

I'm on version .90

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May 5, 2012 7:47:57 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Wow allready made a post for this and no Dev said he would look into it lol, well at least someone is getting this the attention it deserves. God this bug pisses me off to no end.

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May 6, 2012 2:13:21 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

There is no simple fix for this.

 

 

If you're running Windows 7, right click on the desktop and hit Screen Resolution, and disable your secondary monitor.

 

Easier than unplugging it.

 

 

 

Id love to see this problem fixed.

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May 6, 2012 2:17:24 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

And even easier than disabling a screen, download Cursor Lock. Its free, its clean, its available on Cnet, and it works. Granted its not a permenant fix but its what I've been using for Total War from Empire right through the latest expansion. It takes all of 2 minutes to setup and get running. Saves having to disable monitors everytime.

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May 6, 2012 4:20:29 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I use Murgeemon myself but its not the same as having native curser locking, lags a bit.

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May 26, 2012 12:47:54 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

bumping this up for more attention from devs. This bug annoys to no end.

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May 31, 2012 11:22:54 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I found out something interesting the other day in relation to this. I made a map with map designer and played it and while playing it mouse capture functioned.

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June 12, 2012 4:15:21 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Bumping once again, as this is still a thing in the final release

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