Chiming in I’ve been having this problem since I started playing again near the end of 10.0.7, and was hoping 10.1 would change/fix the problem. Nope still a hugeee issue. Only way I can fix it is to alt+f4 and start the game again. As ya’ll can guess, its game breaking if in the middle of a key or BG.
Tried every solution imaginable from addons to driver, graphic settings to monitor settings.
Gonna unsub if this isn’t fixed soon, since game might as well be unplayable.
I just unsubbed and am done with this game until this is fixed. Nothing more tilting than having to alt+F4 out of a random BG 5+ times while grinding out new PvP gear. If they take too long to fix, I’ll just quit for good.
Does anyone else here with this problem use any VR software at all? For me I use a Quest 2, and Virtual Desktop for wireless PCVR, which creates a disabled 3rd display for me, which becomes enabled and the primary monitor when I launch my VR. Also have the Oculus program installed for the same purpose. Could be interfering with WoW’s terrible use of DX12?
My last guess as to any sort of possible common denominator between us all with this issue, is maybe Windows 11 and it’s “optimizations for windowed games?” I MIGHT try to turn that off for WoW under W11 Graphics settings, but after that I’m out of ideas.
Not about to uninstall any of my VR software to test though, as I’ve already wasted countless hours trying to fix this myself.
Still happening to me 1-3x per day… it’s beyond infuriating 
I have oculus VR and I used task manager to force close anything related to oculus and i have yet to have the issue occur after 3 hours of playing. Fingers crossed that you found the culprit…
Although I think it’s just placebo, since enabling admin rights for WoW.exe, the issue has nearly stopped, and it’s been well over a week, at this point, without a problem. I can’t see how this permission would make a difference, yet here we are.
Be advised if you do run WoW as admin, you also have to run Discord as admin as well. I forget what the app advised in terms of using without permissions, but you can bet there is some functionality that will not work otherwise.
Finally, if it helps, and I haven’t tried any of these suggested approaches, you can try the following at your own risk.
Good luck, folks. As suggested, I’m not convinced admin rights does anything at all, but me and a couple of others have seemed to have luck with it. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Hell yea! Guess this gives me a good excuse to test, and not having to uninstall it.
Can confirm, my own suggestion works. Just did 10+ random BGs without having the problem once. Before it was at least twice a BG.
Going to task manager, like mentioned by Achenas, and force closing all Oculus software, was the solution.
Blizz, the problem to this is VR software. Probably because they create new disabled displays, control inputs, audio inputs/outputs, etc. that run in the background waiting to for you to use the VR headset. At which point they become default, and/or enabled.
Worth looking into, but myself and some friends both have this issue. I have VR stuff on my computer, they do not.
I would be interested to know what kind of computer they located the bug on. Was it an employee’s personal machine, that might have all sorts of programs in the background? Was it a computer solely for WoW without extra things?
I’ve also gone days without the stupid cursor bug popping up. Gives me a false sense of hope that it’s fixed, only for it to be dashed when I least expect it. So don’t celebrate about your 10+ BGs without an issue too early, go knock on wood or something. XD
It’s looking like this is an issue with remote-in apps running, or at least one of the causes anyway.
I use Chrome Remote to remote into my home PC from work (I work from home), and after relogging wasn’t fixing the issue like it did when I wasn’t remoted in, I started wondering if it was a remote-in issue, and every time I’d start up WoW while not remoted in, my cursor was fine. Then I would remote in, and the issue would return almost immediately, but only when using the mouse on the PC I’m remoting in from. If I use my normal PC’s mouse, it’s fine until I start using the remote-in PC’s mouse, then it does it on both until I kill the remote-in and restart WoW. I did this about 10 times in a row with the same results every time. Work PC mouse is a Dell and my home PC is using a Pwnage mouse, and I uninstalled my old Logitech software a long time ago.
I tested this with both Chrome Remote and my work’s remote-in software which is called ConnectWise, with the same results every time. As soon as the remote-in connection is killed and I restart WoW, the cursor is fine again.
I wasn’t able to test with TeamViewer or any other remote-in apps besides these two, but I’m guessing the results would be the same.
The only “fix” that wasn’t an actual fix was to enable “Relative Mouse Mode” in Chrome Remote, but this added so much input lag and made the mouse feel like such trash that it was unplayable.
I didn’t really mess with any other Chome Remote settings, but it appears to related to remote-in software in general.
EDIT: Just caught up on the thread. I also have VR software installed, but I’m pretty sure it’s not running unless it has some extra weird name in Task Manager that makes no sense.
EDIT EDIT: Loaded up my Oculus software and everything was fine. Until I remoted in, then business as usual from the rest of the post above.
I can consistently reproduce this issue with what was described above with remoting in though.
99% sure that I first started noticing this issue after I started remoting in to play WoW, which was within the past 2-3 weeks. Never noticed it before then.
For the record, I knew the admin rights wouldn’t make a difference, as others have found as well. After more than a week, its happened three times already today.
Do you by any chance have any remote-in software running? I’ve been able to reproduce the issue consistently as described in the post above yours.
Just wanted to chime in based on some of the latest posts. I still have the issue all the time and I do not run VR software nor remote-in software.
I know I don’t have any explicit clients installed, and the only thing I could think of otherwise would simply be Windows’ network settings.
Like Nvidia’s gamestream service they discontinued that could still be installed from old drivers?
To reproduce the bug: (This was not happening to me until I tried this):
Install chrome remote desktop. (Formatted my computer like 2 weeks ago and reinstalled it to get carried through a dungeon in wotlk classic while I cooked dinner).
Anyways, enable click 2 move.
Make the window resizeable / windowed.
Disable click 2 move.
Mouse turning into the 4 arrows thing is now “enabled”.
I was having mouse issues since patch, I would right click on a mob or npc and my camera would freak out. Read a bit of this post tonight and saw some people talking about remote access programs. I have Splashtop installed on my PC and figured I would try and disable that and see if anything changed. My mouse is working normally now!!! Still a bit hesitate in claiming victory over the issue but as of right now I have been right clicking things like a mad man and no camera issues!! So give that a try if you are having issues and have a remote access program on your PC!
Just chiming in from across the pond. I don’t have any remote software installed, I don’t have any oculus software installed and I still had the issue. For me it started after I bought a new alienware ultrawide monitor. I installed the Alienware Command Center and Dell Display Manager (2.1) with my monitor so I wouldn’t have to go into the monitor’s OSD every time I wanted to change something.
I didn’t link it to the monitor software, but I started getting the 4 way arrow constantly, my mouse cursor would constantly reset to the middle of the screen and rotating would stop after a certain degree. I’m sure this caused some wipes in M+ 
Anyway, what fixed it for me is to actually exit the Dell Display Manager after changing settings. I’ve had no more issues since then.
Perhaps this helps anyone who is running any display manager software.
any fix? 
There seemed to be a common thread here in that any program that causes the mouse cursor to “jump” instantly from one location on the screen to another is counted as an extremely high DPI motion, which causes this bug to occur. Third-party mouse control applications, remote software, and virtual KVM software seem to all cause this issue to occur reliably. So, I figured I’d try an experiment to address my own problem.
I use some virtual KVM software to be able to use Discord on another computer and/or pull up Wowhead when I need it. I noticed when I shut down Microsoft MouseWithoutBorders, I stopped having this problem. Part of the behavior of MWB is that when the cursor is moved from one machine to another, the machine that isn’t in use auto-centers the mouse cursor, causing an instant movement.
I suspect that many of these other applications cause similar behavior with the mouse cursor, either by visibly moving the mouse or “hiding” it. This more just confirms that extremely high DPI motions cause the game’s cursor to bug out.
Hi. Im not sure if anyone has had this issue but at the top left of my battle.net app menu, it shows a green arrow and says, “restart and update” I have restated the app many times, Ive also shut down and rebooted my PC many times since this appeared and it says the same thing every day now for over a week. Restarting the app does nothing. All of my game installs have the latest updates as well.