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smolxbeanx
Seasoned Novice
11 days ago

Unable to click and drag to move screen while playing

Hey everyone

ive had this issue for a few months, and today decided to try and fix it. I updated all my mods before playing, and was having some intermittent freezing of positioning of the camera (aerial view for some reason) that I couldn’t undo. In addition, I was having this ongoing issue of being unable to use my trackpad to click and drag to move my screen. I have to use the keys to move it. The intermittent aerial camera positioning resolved after removing some mods, and I ended up removing all my mods and custom content to try to see if that helped. I also repaired the game. I still can’t drag and click. I took a video after I repaired the game and removed all my customizations, I have a MacBook Air with sequoia 15.6 and an m3 chip, but I can’t upload the video. I saw someone on Facebook had a similar problem a few months ago and someone commented about an all mod update but I didn’t understand what they meant and all my mods were updated and this still wouldn’t work, and now that all of them are gone and it’s still not working idk what to do. The trackpad rotate and finger pinch to zoom in and out still works. I can click on things I just can’t move the screen without using buttons. Nothing with my trackpad moves the screen (except edge scrolling which is enabled in the game settings) despite no changes made to my settings on either my Mac or in game. I took a video to upload here but it won’t let me upload it no matter how short I make the video (under 5 seconds even)

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    9 days ago

    smolxbeanx​ 

    smolxbeanx wrote:

    I’m trying to use to move the game camera around in-game is moving my cursor over an area then clicking and dragging

    Sorry, I'm trying to understand how you do this. If I move the cursor around with one finger it simply moves it around on screen, as expected. If I click and drag wherever my cursor is nothing happens, as I would expect and has always been the case for me. If I click anywhere in the game window using two fingers the cursor changes to the video camera and I can drag it around. But that is using two fingers, not one. I have the TS3 camera enabled.

    You use Mods, have you tested in a completely clean Sims 4 folder? Whatever gestures you are using, please test in a clean folder in a new save as described here - [INSTRUCTIONS] How to troubleshoot and test a broken game | EA Forums - 11864548 

  • smolxbeanx's avatar
    smolxbeanx
    Seasoned Novice
    9 days ago

    Yes I do have it enabled. 

    the trackpad gesture I’m trying to use to move the game camera around in-game is moving my cursor over an area then clicking and dragging. I’ve always used this gesture as my way of moving around and I’m not accustomed to the keypad and it is also much less accessible for me. 

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    11 days ago

    smolxbeanx​ 

    Do you have secondary click enabled in System Settings > Trackpad > Point & Click?

    What Trackpad gesture are you trying to use to move the game camera around in-game? I always use the keyboard arrows but it also works using two fingers and dragging around the Trackpad. The cursor changes to the little icon with the video camera and arrows.

  • smolxbeanx's avatar
    smolxbeanx
    Seasoned Novice
    11 days ago

    I’ve honestly never used that button but my game is already on the sims 3 camera ? 

  • Saoudy-mou's avatar
    Saoudy-mou
    Rising Traveler
    11 days ago

    Hi. Did you try to change your camera mode from sims 4 to sims 3 on the top right panel ?