Lock Cursor to Window

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Hi,

Just downloaded the beta and am trying it out for the first time. I'd like to recommend that one of the UI features should be the ability to lock the mouse cursor inside the window when it is the actively selected window.

I'm currently running 3 monitors on 2x crossfired Radeon 6970's, currently set to multi-desktop mode (instead of Eyefinity).

I've noticed that when I run SSE:R in both windowed AND fullscreen mode, the cursor fails to lock into the window, making it almost impossible to use the mouse to move the screen around (instead of stopping at the edges and causing it to move, it continues moving out of the windows bounds and onto my other desktops). Although I CAN use the arrow keys to move the camera, it is frustrating and less intuitive.

I'd expect this non-locking behaviour naturally from windowed mode (perhaps with a UI toggle that allows me to turn it on or off), but I found it weird that it also happened to me while running in fullscreen as well. Anyhow, having the ability to lock the cursor to the game window would be extremely useful for me (and I'm sure for many other people as well!).

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I'm actually thankful I can move the curser out of the screen to the next one, but maybe that's just my way of using my PC.

As for moving the camera, you can just stop the cursor right at the edge of the screen to move it, you do not have to "push" the picture to the left or right with the cursor. Took me some getting used to (as I only started using multiple screens recently), but it works fine for me.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, but it's much less convenient to have to stop it right dead on the border: You have to be agonizingly precise to do it. Almost any other modern RTS (Starcraft II for example) allows you to lock the cursor inside the window when you play, because it allows you to scroll the window much more quickly.

Anyhow, it shouldn't be difficult or time consuming to include an option to lock the mouse inside the window borders. With the option to do it both our ways would be available anyways.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

PLEASE Fix this

It is really annoying when the game is set fullscreen but the cursor can still move out of the game window !

 

ALL other games i have played last year work perfect with my dual monitor setup.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I have this problem with Shogun also. Except, with Sins I can simply toggle fullscreen mode and the cursorlock works.

I mean it, simply goto video, check the windowed mode, hit apply, then during the countdown hit the cancel. For me it works everytime.

Now for shogun II this does not work, so I instead use a program do it for me.

http://www.snakebytestudios.com/projects/apps/cursor-lock/  

http://www.snakebytestudios.com/2010/05/using-cursor-lock-with-steam-games/ <-- Steam game guide, works fine with shogun2