First post here, something finally drove me nuts, enough for me to bother other people about it lol
What happened : seemingly out of nowhere, when I loaded up the game 2 days ago, mouse cursor had a white square around it; the square is just a bit bigger than the cursor, just enough to encapsulate it
After a few hours of searching and a bunch of trial and error, here is what I found :
- when game is in windowed mode and cursor is not locked to window : white square around the cursor
- when game is in fullscreen or borderless fullscreen (they seem to act the same) : if cursor is not locked to window, mouse cursor becomes invisible in the menu, even though UI elements still react to the mouse normally (that's how I can "guess" where the mouse is, in order to revert the changes and get back the settings where I can see the cursor)
- no matter the display mode, when I check the "Lock cursor to window" setting, mouse cursor becomes normal just like before; (even though, I never had this setting on , before encountering this bug !)
Now, I wrote "seemingly" beforehand because when this first happened, I was in the process of testing out mods for the first time, and also my Windows install had some issues right about that time. So naturally, I think one of these may have caused my bug to start happening.
- I downloaded and put a few mods in the mods folder; I tried out the game and everything seems to be working properly; I tried removing mods and that didn't change anything for the issues with the cursor, so I'm more inclined to think this has nothing to do with it
- my Windows install had some issues right around that time : start menu bugged out, mouse pointer speed reset to default when I restarted the pc; all seems to have been corrected with another restart on the Windows side, but I wouldn't know if that could have broken something in the game
Seeing as many people online were talking about mouse properties :
- I have tried unchecking the "hide pointer while typing" box
- have tried enabling then re-disabling the "display pointer trails" box
- have tried exiting my mouse software and restarting PZ. For the record, I have a Logitech MX Master 3S and use Logi Options+ but the software doesn't seem to have updated recently or anything
One other interesting thing I out found just now, is that when I have the white square around the cursor (so in windowed mode, having unchecked the "cursor lock" checkbox), and I try to take a screenshot, the white box/square disappears ! The screenshot simply shows the normal, regular cursor, as if nothing's wrong ! I would have liked to show you exactly what I'm talking about (that's why I tried to screenshot it), but I guess if you guys think it would be useful, I'll take a photo with my phone, of the computer screen... This makes me lean more towards thinking it might be a Windows issue ...
I don't know what I can try anymore. I know I could simply ignore it and play the game with mouse cursor locked, in fullscreen; but I would really love to be able to play it again like before, since I have multiple screens and I usually have other things running that need controlling...
Anyone has any idea on what else I could try ?
Thank you !