Major right click issue Windows 10

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I have searched this issue endlessly with no resolution; in fact I can’t even find someone who has the same exact issue.

I used to play the game on a 2016 Mac Book (which is less than ideal as most know) and recently switched to a much better computer and Windows 10. I never had any issues with my mouse on Mac.

The issue: When I press my right mouse button to turn my character and move the camera, there is a random occasional stick/lag effect. When you press right click on your mouse, the cursor disappears and you have the ability to turn your character. If you press right click, the cursor should disappear instantly and return instantly once you let go.

When I press right click, sometimes it takes a second for the cursor to disappear, and even more frustratingly, when I let go, sometimes the cursor takes a second to reappear. Both of these functions should be instant. I cannot recreate the issue on my mac.

I have tried multiple solutions… disabling pointer acceleration, disabling browser acceleration through battle.net, removing all my add-ons, etc. I have absolutely no applications running overlays within the game. (GeForce experience, Discord, Twitch, etc.)

Could really use some help as this is ruining Arena/rated PVP for me. Maybe I’m missing something Windows related?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Flipshades

Let’s try some things here - you may have tried some of these already. Check the list for anything you missed.

(1) In the mouse software lower “Polling Rate” to 100 - 125 range.

(2) If you have Razer Synapse software check that the Razer “Stats” software is not enabled. Open Synapse - along top bar is “Stats”. Open that - if enabled - disable “Data Tracking” in the Stat’s settings.

(3) Try disabling Foreground FPS limiter on Menu > System > Advanced.

(4) If you have a Wacom device you might disable things there or temporarily uninstall the Wacom drivers to test.

(5) Enable the rawMouse CVar. Open a chat box then copy/paste this line. Ctrl + V will paste it.

/script SetCVar(“rawMouseEnable”, 1);

To check that the script worked go to the Wow folder > WTF - look for the Config file. Open with notepad. This should be at the bottom of CVar list:

SET rawMouseEnable “1” (0 - zero is off)

(6) *(The settings below are a Windows 10 feature - they have proven to be problematic - you would want to make the changes to avoid other issues as well)

Navigate to the main Wow folder. Down near the bottom of the list is the Wow icon (W) icon.

Right click on the Wow icon. Select “Properties” at bottom of list. Then select “Compatibility” tab along top of next pane.

At the bottom of that select (check) “Disable Fullscreen Optimization”

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I’ve tried all of the options that i could and none of them worked. I wasn’t able to find the Razer Snapse software check “stats”, and I don’t think I have a wacome device. Any other suggestions?

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Same problem. Was playing the shiit out of the prepatch, left on a trip for 9 days and came back to this annoying bug.

Clean reinstall of the game and all addons, tried running the game with the addons removed, lowered the polling rate, disabled FPS limiters, disabled Fullscreen Optimization in Windows, ran the in-game script, turned off overlays, then ended all tasks not related to windows or the WoW process, restarting WoW\Battlenet Launcher between settings changes, and it’s still happening.

ALSO this happened to me at the launch of BFA and I believe I fixed it by disabling hardware acceleration in the Bnet Launcher, but that is also not working as a fix, currently.

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I’m having the exact same issue and many others are as well.

Super frustrating and I hope I have it fixed soon

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I’m also having this issue and no fixes so far :frowning:

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I can confirm this issue has been ongoing for me for months.

Originally, I thought for sure it was the mouse… spent $100 on a new mouse. Same issue. :frowning:

After searching the issue, found loads of threads from others experiencing the same problem.

This only occurs in WoW. The behaviour is as though the right mouse button intermittently “unclicks” while you’re holding it down, or doesn’t recognize an initial click, ignoring the press. It seems completely random, and I cannot fix this. It’s extremely frustrating, and makes the game nigh unplayable.

I have tried, literally, every recommended solution listed from those posters who have experienced this extremely frustrating issue.

Reinstalled.
Removed all addons.
Complete reset of UI.
Switched all mouse settings, polling rates, etc etc as described in all blue posts.
Switched all recommended window settings, graphic settings, foreground dps, etc.
Removed all mouse software, just ran with basic Windows functionality.

Nothing. I think it might be fixed for a few minutes, then just as it looks promising, surprise, intermittent again. /sigh

Again, this ONLY occurs in WoW. I use my system for graphic design, so the right button is in constant use, and does not misbehave in any other application.

I’ve even tested it in graphic applications while WoW is misbehaving in the background by holding down the button and drawing non-stop… no intermittent right button behaviour whatsoever outside of WoW.

The issue does seem to be possibly tied to patches. This has occurred on and off for me for months. It seems like some patches fix it, and then others reintroduce it, for whatever reason.

Very, very frustrating.

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Same mouse was fine yesterday but is a mess today, this game runs like a old wet rag now. It’s Blizzards end not ours.

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This is an issue that was present during the beta. I was experiencing it when I was in the beta client, but it was not present in the BFA retail client. Basically what happens is when you hold the mouse button down to move your character, the cursor doesn’t actually disappear until you move the mouse.

So you can hold the mouse button down all day and the cursor will not disappear, but the moment you move the mouse cursor one pixel in any direction, the client suddenly realizes “hey, I was supposed to make that cursor disappear so the user can move their character.”

It is either a bug or a really weird design decision on Blizzard’s end.

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yeah i been noticing this issue alot lately, i smacked my mouse around, and it seems not to be as bad as before

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TL;DR: If you’ve ruled out a failing microswitch or are otherwise sure your mouse is good, disregard all this, and I wish you good luck going forward.

For anyone else, or if you aren’t 100% sure:

https://codepen.io/blink172/pen/vERyxK

Right-click 100 times in the orange area. Does it register 100 clicks? Does it ever turn red?

Dying mice are finnicky. They “die” intermittently when they first start to go. The switches will hold a click fine for four days, then not work for two or three, then be fine again. I find that ambient temperature can affect it. My “dying mice” are often quite worse when I start to use them in the morning, then the fault tends to taper off as my hand warms the mouse.

The tiny 1-mil-thick piece of copper in the dying micro-switch can easily have its tensile strength altered by a forty-degree difference in temperature, especially if the tensile strength is already on the edge of not being able to “hold a click.”

This can disguise itself quite effectively as “it only happens in WoW,” if people don’t do much else with their computers.

Believe me, I know. My personal “click pressure” is far above what I guess to be the average “click pressure” because my mice switches give out more or less six months from purchase. Always the right or middle button, always starts with the click not “sticking” when I click or turn. Razer, Logitech, Microsoft, Amazon Basics - it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, it’s worth ruling out a mouse switch issue before you completely focus on software, especially since you can do that with some confidence at the site I listed above, with only the time it takes to click 100 times.

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Im havin the same problem but whit left click i dunno what else to do i try everything and nothing change

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We need help here! This is making the game unplayable some times.

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A new, additional bit of weirdness that just occurred for me; helpful or not, hard to say:

My right button started acting as though it was the left button. This only happened inside WoW. Holding the right button to rotate the camera was working one moment, and the next, the right button would only move the camera. Holding down the left button did the same. Holding down both, which should have made the character move forward, did nothing. The right button was behaving as though it were the left.

I alt-tabbed out of WoW to check, and outside the game, the right button was working just fine. Tabbed back to the game… two left buttons. Logging out and back in got it working again (or at least, working in it’s current intermittent form.

I’m wondering now if what’s occurring isn’t that the right button momentarily “unclicks”, but that it’s randomly being interpreted as a left-click instead of a right click (and in my case just now, got stuck in the ‘recognize it as a left click’ state).

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This is an ongoing issue for me as well, can’t find a solution anywhere, or an official response anywhere. Literally making it almost unplayable. I’m coming back from a 5 year hiatus and this is extremely frustrating. Despite the name of the thread I don’t think it’s a Windows 10 issue, seems to be a Blizzard issue as I can’t replicate this issue anywhere outside of WoW. To add to this, I’m using a three monitor setup, so when this happens, my pointer goes onto my other monitors, forcing me to tab out, essentially. Since there is no true Full Screen anymore there is no way to stop this from happening. I’m at the point where I’m going to unhook my other monitors to see if I can at least stop that part of this issue. Crazy.

Edit: Unhooked my two other monitors, which basically forces full screen now. The mouse issue is still there, but at least it doesn’t go completely to my other monitors when this happens. I don’t think I’m willing to sacrifice my other monitors to half way make this issue “not as annoying” rather than fix the issue. I’ve seen threads on this as far back as 2018 (none of which had a solution that worked or an official response other than Submit a ticket), how is this still a thing?

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Hmm. I’m also using a multi-monitor setup. Is it possible that it’s related somehow?

In my case, the mouse doesn’t seem to ‘jump’ to other screens when it occurs, however.

It’s probably the most frustrating bug I’ve ever encountered, because it seems completely random.

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It doesn’t exactly jump per se to my other monitors, but when I’m furiously mouse turning in the heat of battle, the issue happens (right click stops locking the camera and the cursor comes loose). It does seem totally random, but when it’s bad, it’s unplayable.

Edit: @Arabethy Yeah, even after completely unhooking my other two monitors it still happened. Makes sense, with no real Full Screen mode anymore there is no way to keep my cursor on the main monitor once the issue happens and it breaks loose. So with just a single monitor, the cursor still randomly wont lock the camera and it comes loose. I have to right click again to relock the camera, which of course means a lot of times right clicking on stuff I didn’t mean to trying to relock the camera.

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Maybe a blue could consolidate these threads on this issue, I’ve found at least this thread and another on the front page just today. Would be nice to actually finally get a solution, fix or at least an official acknowledgment of the issue.

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Hello??? Is anyone there?

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Guess not, maybe with three threads active on it it will get a look.