IDual Monitors - Mouse Leaving Screen in RTS Games?

frying_pan_cat · 27 Sep 2009 at 15:37

This is probably a really simple issue but I have dual monitors and when playing RTS games, eg. Company of Heroes, the mouse will leave the screen if I try to move the camera to the right and goes onto the second monitor. This is a bit of a pain so I wandered if there's a simple way to stop this happening?

Thanks

Edit: I've just noticed that the title has an I at the start that isn't meant to be there

FrenchTart · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:17

frying_pan_cat said:
This is probably a really simple issue but I have dual monitors and when playing RTS games, eg. Company of Heroes, the mouse will leave the screen if I try to move the camera to the right and goes onto the second monitor. This is a bit of a pain so I wandered if there's a simple way to stop this happening?

Thanks

Edit: I've just noticed that the title has an I at the start that isn't meant to be there

Windowed mode or ultramon + shortcut key to turn on/off secondary monitor works for me.

snowdog · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:34

The mouse lock should work, provided you don't alt tab, you should never have to disable your 2nd monitor for gaming, what gfx card and OS are you running ?

AHarvey · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:40

Ive had the exact same problem, got my new widescreen on the right and crt on the left.

While playing Dawn of War on the right screen if I moved to far too the left it would minimize the game, I found I had to press ALT and move the camera then it would be fine. :S

Having same issue with monkey Island.

frying_pan_cat · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:40

snowdog said:
The mouse lock should work, provided you don't alt tab, you should never have to disable your 2nd monitor for gaming, what gfx card and OS are you running ?

I'm running windows 7 and my graphics is a 4850.

Weirdly I was playing CoH just now and it seemed to sort itself out halfway through. I don't have a clue what made it work, I just moved my mouse over to the right and it scrolled but it wasn't doing that to begin with

Jongo · 27 Sep 2009 at 18:28

frying_pan_cat said:
This is probably a really simple issue but I have dual monitors and when playing RTS games, eg. Company of Heroes, the mouse will leave the screen if I try to move the camera to the right and goes onto the second monitor. This is a bit of a pain so I wandered if there's a simple way to stop this happening?

Thanks

Edit: I've just noticed that the title has an I at the start that isn't meant to be there

alt tab straight when the game loads solves this issue.

frying_pan_cat · 27 Sep 2009 at 19:09

Jongo said:
alt tab straight when the game loads solves this issue.

Cheers, I'll give that a go

-BA- · 28 Sep 2009 at 11:42

Second vote for Ultramon here. Great program and you can set up keybinds for various tasks. You can actually lock the cursor to a particular screen without having to disable the second screen.

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2009 at 12:09

-BA- said:
Second vote for Ultramon here. Great program and you can set up keybinds for various tasks. You can actually lock the cursor to a particular screen without having to disable the second screen.

Ooh..I didn't know about that second bit. I'll definitely have to look into it

-BA- · 28 Sep 2009 at 12:14

Aekeron said:
Ooh..I didn't know about that second bit. I'll definitely have to look into it

You can even have a separate task bar on the other screen for just the programs running on that screen. Very good tool.

frying_pan_cat · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:32

Jongo said:
alt tab straight when the game loads solves this issue.

I tried this and now it seems to start fine every time locking the mouse to monitor 1 without having to do this

Thanks

FrenchTart · 28 Sep 2009 at 21:43

-BA- said:
You can even have a separate task bar on the other screen for just the programs running on that screen. Very good tool.

Yeah, I use that a lot

It's a very nice program.