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Seasoned Rookie

7 years ago

Solved

mouse won't stay in game with dual monitor setup

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug My mouse will not stay in the game and the cursor is visible on top of the game. Cursor goes to 2nd monitor even in full screen mode. No option to "lock mouse to window" in0game
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name?
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug?
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Campaign
What is your time zone?
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? open the game launch combat
What happens when the bug occurs? mouse makes game unplayable by going off screen or not allowing you to turn
What do you expect to see?
Please select your region North America
AMD or Nvidia Model Number

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My mouse will not stay in the game and the cursor is visible on top of the game. Cursor goes to 2nd monitor even in full screen mode. No option to "lock mouse to window" in0game

EA_Blueberry
7 years ago
Some others reported issues with the mouse cursor if Discord was open. Are you using any overlays at all when this is happening? I'd recommend making some slight adjustments to your monitor configuration under your Windows settings to narrow down whether that is the cause. Right-clicking on the game in Origin and selecting "Repair" can help fix weird game issues, that's worth a shot.

I'm sure you've tried it, but unplugging the mouse and re-inserting it can help too. Make sure all your devices are updated!

Updating Drivers and Devices

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/pc-graphics-troubleshooting/

18 Replies

86irocz28
6 years ago
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fixed it.
Nexzzii
5 years ago
having the same issue, NO overlay on with dual monitor setup. Makes me want to smash my desk so hard because the game is unplayable.
Nolan7886
5 years ago
@Kahnwolf Restart the game, it worked for me
Grayshack1
5 years ago
@JaJa23424 thank you so much! its one of my favourite games and couldn't figure it out, after disabling the origin overlay all was good!
DailyGameBank
5 years ago
After almost a year of trying to find a solution i tried looking outside of EA for answers.
I tried:
- full screen / windows / extended
- turning off origin overlay
- turning off discord overlay or any other overlays
this did not work for me, and i still flicked over to my 2nd screen and passed away 🙂
SOLUTION:
There is an app which is pretty old and has not been updated since 2013 but it works:
It's a cursor lock app which you can setup per game seperately. After you followed the steps in this link: http://www.snakebytestudios.com/projects/apps/cursor-lock/
Then you open the game and start this tool and your mouse stays on your main screen, the downfall is that you have to boot this app every time you play it.
So i put the created cursor lock app on my dashboard on my 2nd screen so i can flick over to it and boot it up and go back to apex and mouse stays on main screen the entire session.
Hope this helps...
Cheers!
AgentExodus
5 years ago
@Thormgrim Confirmed. Same issue. Was the orgin in-game overlay. Turned it off and it's working fine now. Thanks guys!
TOTWJxrd
5 years ago
Disabling Origin In-Game solved the issue for me.
cofmann
DICE Team
5 years ago
I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.

If you have any issues with SWBF2 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.

/Atic