Mouse aim not working in alternating deaths

Bug Report
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Hi there, for some reason my mouse sticks to a cursor when I start a match and then on death, it reverts to aiming, but on the next death then its a cursor again. I’ve tried all the mouse and controller related settings and its starting to drive me nuts

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Do you have any overlays turned on? This will mess with the way Overwatch hides the mouse cursor and processes raw mouse input.

This includes overlays such as:

  • Discord
  • AMD Radeon Software. (In my experience it didn’t cause issues but it could)
  • NVIDIA Shadowplay/GeForce Experience overlay.
  • (Not tested this but maybe?) Xbox Overlay. This comes with Windows 10/11 however so chances are this won’t be causing this issue.

In addition, something like RivaTuner/MSI Afterburner’s overlay could mess with the mouse as well.

Failing that, (or if you have the above overlays not installed/disabled) could you try using Borderless Fullscreen mode and see if the issue occurs there?

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I don’t have any overlays up, and the cursor is the overwatch one. the thing is all of the mouse buttons work and the game plays, its just that I cant turn using mouse movement, otherwise I can play fine pointing only the one direction. I’ll give borderless a try though

–Edit

So I was playing on borderless, when the mouse glitch happened - I swapped over to fullscreen and it fixed it for a little while, Going to do some more testing though

–Edit Edit

Still not working, wasnt that

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I’m also having this issue. I’m playing on the steam deck. Everytime I die it either flips to mouse control or to aim control. I found that going back to the battle.net launcher that’s running in the background and then back to the game resolves the issue until I die again. I’ve also set the battle.net launcher to close out upon launching the game. Still no dice.

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Not sure if you’re still watching this thread but on Steam Deck, you’ll need to use Proton 8.0 Experimental to avoid this issue happening; earlier versions of Wine/Proton messed up the fullscreen state every time the game tries to flash your taskbar, which caused the window to erroneously think it was minimised.