I’m having a problem with Overwatch where my cursor keeps warping back into the game when i try to move out of it. I play in borderless windowed on a dual monitor setup so there are a lot of times when I want/need to access stuff on my other monitor. It basically is acting like the cursor lock when the cursor should be free.
In the past, I was always able to move between them seamlessly but for the past week or two, it keeps throwing my cursor back to roughly the center of the screen Overwatch is on after I move a little into the other monitor. I generally am able to access the other monitor after a few attempts but it is pretty annoying to deal with overall.
Is this a bug that they need to fix or is there anything I can do to fix it without needing to switch to fullscreen?
First of all I shall tell you that fullscreen is way better than borderless windowed when you want to play competitively. I don’t know if you do that’s why I just included it.
Now to your problem:
Do you press the windows key to tab out of ow? If not try that. That’s all I can really think of rn. Hope I could help
PS: You should post this in the technical support channel as well.
Honestly, I know in fullscreen, the computer is able to dedicate more resources to the game, but I don’t experience any difference in frame rates between the two modes so I just stick with borderless windowed when I’m on dual monitors to switch faster and be able to see the game still.
I’ll try the windows key and if that doesn’t work I’ll try posting in the technical support
It’s not about fps, it’s about input lag. That’s something you will notice after you play fullscreen for a while. It’s nothing that will make you better instantly but it can make a difference. I played with borderless windowed for a long time myself.
I have also experienced this issue and its increasingly frustrating.
Never used to happen about 4 months ago. Must of been a patch change.
Any known fix would be great
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I also have this issue, it started happening in one of the updates in 2020. I believe it was the patch that introduced Enable High Precision Mouse Input setting, if I’m not mistaken.
Unfortunately it happens at random so it’s hard to determine exactly what’s causing it.
I find that moving the mouse VERY slowly to the other screen works around that issue, it’s really annoying tho.
I doubt they will bother fixing, but here are the repro steps anyway:
- Have 2 monitors aligned horizontally.
- Open the game, set it to borderless full screen.
- At any moment the mouse is available in the game (using UI, settings for example), move the mouse at a normal speed towards the other monitor.
- observe mouse keeps teleporting back to the center of the screen in OW.