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EihposDAOrigins
6 years ago

PS4 cursor continues to change as it pleases

Apologies for bringing this up again but none of the old posts show a solution even when they say they do.

So, I'm playing on PS4. For a while, maybe even an hour or so, in live mode all is fine. Eventually for no reason that I can fathom except maybe me accidentally hitting the touchpad, the cursor decides to jump away from the screen and only move around the outer icons. This is an awful and unplayable mechanism. Now, I can regain control by pressing o or the touchpad, but the game now has decided it doesn't want me to have control back and keeps going into this awful flick around the icon mode no matter what I do.

My only escape is to exit application and start again. Eventually though this awful game mode comes back. And it's driving me crazy.

Please, is there a way to turn this off? I can't understand why anyone would want to play that way. There has to be a way to disable this. Please?

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6 Replies

  • EihposDAOrigins's avatar
    EihposDAOrigins
    6 years ago
    @PoptartJuniper No, that happens too but far less frequently. This is more a case of the on screen cursor disappearing, so when you use the analog stick as if you were trying to move the cursor, it simply flicks between the choices you have around the edge of the screen. But it's so much harder to get it to go where you want. And when you do bring the cursor back, it disappears again, especially when clicking on another household member.

    Thanks for asking, I hope this is a little more clear?
  • PoptartJuniper's avatar
    PoptartJuniper
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @EihposDAOrigins  Are you doing anything specific when the issue occurs? 

    Can you go into first person mode by pressing and holding the Right stick down. Then you can hold the stick down again to exit.

    An open bug report is here for a disappearing cursor here, though I think your issue is different. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-XB1-PS4-Cursor-disappeared/td-p/8383518

    There's also this thread that covers controls for console, https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Consoles/Controls-for-The-Sims-4-on-consoles/m-p/6446759#M650

    Pressing the touchpad should move the cursor back to the game and stop it from circling the menu bar.

  • EihposDAOrigins's avatar
    EihposDAOrigins
    6 years ago
    @PoptartJuniper that's exactly it, it circles the menu bars, and yes, hitting the touchpad swaps it back. However, for a good long while I have the cursor, but once something happens that throws it into the mode where it circles the menu bars, it then keeps on reverting to that mode. Every click of a sim or some of the other menu bar options and I've lost control again. I then have to completely exit the Sims app and restart. Again then for a good while I can keep the cursor, even after clicking to swap housemate. But again, once that horrible circling mode starts, I can't stop it. It is the same with the other rapid menu problem people are reporting.

    I guess there's no way of switching off the circling mode completely, but there really should be a way.
  • EihposDAOrigins's avatar
    EihposDAOrigins
    6 years ago
    @PoptartJuniper No, it's brand new. It's definitely software related, as is the speed menu issue. The more I research the more it seems others have the same problems, but as with all the big game companies these days nothings fixed 🙄 I appreciate your help though.

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