Very minor bug at front end screen (limited mouse movement)

Alinestra Covelia on 3/12/2007 at 21:41

(Note: This is NOT the inventory mouse bug, which I got fixed in a different way according to the FAQs.)

Just noticed a very minor bug in the front end. Sometimes my mouse is limited in its movement to a small space, so I can't click on a menu option. The space appears to extend in a rectangle from the upper left hand corner of the screen to about two thirds of the way to the right and to the bottom. It means I can't select the buttons.

It's not a big problem, though. The bug always goes away when I hit Escape to return to the main screen, and then hit Escape again to return to the front end selection menu. Doing that makes the mouse work normally again.

The only time it's vaguely a problem is in the intro mission choice cutscene menu, where it summarizes your year of duty. If this bug happens I can never move the mouse to the "okay" button in the lower right hand. But I can push Escape and it closes the screen normally and progresses onward.

I do toggle between my game and other programs quite a bit using Alt+Tab, so that may be a reason why the mouse acts oddly from time to time.

Like I said, quite a minor bug and largely harmless. Dunno if anybody has seen it before.

Kolya on 3/12/2007 at 21:59

Alt-tabbing back and forth also fixes it btw. I don't know what causes this, but I got it too sometimes. Maybe it's related to playing on a non-standard resolution. Or maybe not.

Trance on 3/12/2007 at 22:01

Could it somehow be related to a similar bug in SS1? Where the mouse would be confined to a space 640x480 in size on the top-left corner of the screen?

Kolya on 3/12/2007 at 22:08

That bug in SS1 is due to winXP's lousy mouse support inside NTVDM (or wrong Mouse2KV settings). I don't think it's related.