Weird mouse behavior in Sims 4 only

I bought a new gaming laptop and immediately started having weird mouse issues in the Sims 4. When I click on terrain to try and rotate the screen, my clicks don't register two-thirds of the time and I'm not able to rotate anything.

I tried using three different mice, including a wired gaming mouse, and had the same result with all of them. I also don't have anything weird going on with mouse clicks in anything else on the computer, just the Sims 4. I tried updating all my drivers and they should be up to date.

I did notice something weird with this laptop, and its that Sims thinks it has a much larger screen than it actually has (my 13.5in laptop has a 2256 x 1504 display, which is probably why). It has kind of a weird aspect ratio, too. I manually chose a different and lower resolution and adjusted the UI elements to scale them up, but I'm not sure if this is related somehow?

Does anyone have any ideas or advice? I set my computer display to have 200% scaling, but the Sims doesn't recognize that and I can't set the scaling that high in the game without it scolding me repeatedly. 

Edit: after doing some more testing, this is definitely related to me changing the display resolution to something other than my laptop's actual resolution. When I use 2256 x 1504 and manually set my UIScale to 50 (I think that's 200% scaling? That's what my laptop is using.) then I don't have the mouse click issue.

However, I still have the issue of the game thinking my display is twice the size it actually is and scolding me and trying to get me to revert back to no scaling. It asks me this every time I open the game which is why I changed the display resolution to begin with (I already had auto-adjust turned off.)

High-resolution displays on laptops are becoming more common, so I'd like to suggest allowing a larger curve of acceptable UI scaling, or at least a setting to let us turn that off permanently. It is very annoying.