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abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-20 13:12:20
January 20 2012 09:09 GMT
#1
Hello, as the topic says, the option for "Confine Mouse Cursor" in the SC2 options settings flat out doesn't do what it says it should, at all, period.... I cannot play SC2 with "Multiple" - (only 2 Monitors) enabled or else the cursor flies off the edge of the screen and will mouse "scroll" SC2 endlessly until I bring it back. I have tried "Windowed", "Windowed (Fullscreen) and "Fullscreen" in the video options. I have also tried "Confine" - On & Auto, all to no avail, and all producing the same result, there is absolutely nothing Confining the mouse inside SC2.

EDIT: Fixed by downloading Ultramon with the "Lock Cursor to Primary Monitor" option as recommended. Not sure why the actual confine option doesn't work.

PC Specs -
AOC 2436 24" Monitor - 1920x1080
KDS 26" - 1920x1200
NVidia drivers 285.62 (latest)
Core i7 950, 12GB DDR3 (6x2GB triple channel Corsair XMS), Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard, OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB PCI-e SSD, eVGA GeForce GTX 460 1GB
Razer Imperator 2012
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit


Anyone experience this before and have a trick or tip that I could try? I am an advanced user, and I understand this option works for everyone else. I have done a fresh install of SC2 even tried "repair.exe" in the sc2 directory but that did nothing.

It's a great computer in every other aspect, everything besides this option works, and I am a computer technician but still I can't figure out what i can do to fix this, besides turning off Multiple Display in the "Screen Resolution" right click menu from the Windows desktop before I go to play a game.

I would like to be able to see some chat windows on the other monitor while I'm playing.

Again to reiterate, the mouse cursor always leaves the SC2 window (either windowed or fullscreened) and goes onto my 2nd monitor when I go to the edge of the screen.

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abei1234
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
January 20 2012 09:18 GMT
#2
I have this happen from time to time (multiple monitors). It usually works fine if I alt+tab out and back in to sc2 (or 'click' in).
disco
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Netherlands1667 Posts
January 20 2012 09:42 GMT
#3
Same for me, the mouse isn't always confined when I tab in just before a game starts. Clicking out and back in always does the trick though. The mouse stays confined after that.

This doesn't work for you?
this game is a fucking jokie
abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
January 20 2012 10:36 GMT
#4
nope, it never worked, not even once.
abei1234
kevint
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark42 Posts
January 20 2012 10:40 GMT
#5
this might sound stupid but u sure u dident just press cancel instead of ok when u did ur mouse confine settings. I do it all the time.
abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
January 20 2012 11:12 GMT
#6
yes i'm sure. i did some more experiments and it seems that when Confine is set to On/Auto, as i said, it doesnt confine, but it does snap my mouse cursor back to 1 pixel inside the edge of SC2 (but only when I actually left-click outside the window/fullscreen) so it's trying to work, but it is not being confined because it lets the mouse leave as if it were off.
abei1234
abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
January 20 2012 11:17 GMT
#7
what makes my computer special? am i going to have to re-install windows? why would the confine setting not work for me? I dont have anything unique running, i even tried uninstalling my Razer mouse driver and trying it without it and with the reinstalled mouse driver and it didnt fix it
abei1234
l00l
Profile Joined August 2010
179 Posts
January 20 2012 11:40 GMT
#8
you could try using ultramon, it comes with the ability to lock the cursor on a monitor through a hotkey.
abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-20 12:29:26
January 20 2012 12:10 GMT
#9
On January 20 2012 20:40 l00l wrote:
you could try using ultramon, it comes with the ability to lock the cursor on a monitor through a hotkey.


Thanks, cool program - > found the hotkey option. Works with SC2. Enough to play once I hit the hotkey.

But it kind of has a tiny "glitch". If I forcefully push the cursor to the edge very hard, the mouse cursor crosses over the border onto the 2nd monitor for like 1 millisecond and by only a few pixels - and if I do that and then click simultaneously, then SC2 loses focus. So its like 99% working which is better than the 1% not-confined cursor snapping that the SC2 confine option was doing before. I just have to remember not to be clicking within 1 millisecond while I'm edge-scrolling SC2, So thanks!

That Ultramon program also has plenty of other useful features, like making a taskbar on the 2nd monitor and moving the windows on the 2nd monitor the appropriate new taskbar.
abei1234
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
January 20 2012 12:27 GMT
#10
just curious (no idea if this would make a difference) have you tried different settings with disabling windows key and/or alt+tab?

also, what monitor/resolution do you run sc2 on?
abei1234
Profile Joined June 2011
United States89 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-20 12:36:20
January 20 2012 12:32 GMT
#11
On January 20 2012 21:27 y0su wrote:
just curious (no idea if this would make a difference) have you tried different settings with disabling windows key and/or alt+tab?

also, what monitor/resolution do you run sc2 on?


I havent used those two. I prefer the windows key and alt-tab to be functional.
I tried running it on both monitors (and also plugging the monitors into the two different DVI ports on my video card) but my main monitor is the 26" KDS and i tried running it at 1920x1080 to see if it mattered that they were the same resolution but it didnt, so i just run it at 1920x1200 which is the native res of the 26" KDS.

The AOC 2436 I use as a secondary because it is a piece of crap with horrible viewing angle, horrible black depth and horrible color accuracy. But it was cheap at $115 compared to $287 for the KDS 26" from 2008 and taught me a lot about differences in LCD quality.
abei1234
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