Right Click Camera: Not "Sticking"

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I have also commented on another poster’s thread here:
Right Click Camera movement broken

TLDR- Right click doesn’t stick when holding down to turn character. Needs hard and fast fix.

The issue is this. When holding down the Right Mouse Button (RMB) to drag and turn your character and camera, the game behaves as if the RMB is not being held down continuously. This is visible as a “fluttering” of the cursor on and off the screen, and also in a more obvious way, your character either turning choppily, or not at all.

The visible behavior is similar to what would happen when your RMB sensor is dying.

A simple google search with keywords like “wow, right click, not sticking” etc, turns up a host of threads from as far back as at least a year ago. A large number of them have very similar replies with a set of recommendations to disable addons, enable raw mouse, cleaning the mouse switch etc. However, none of these solutions seem to have more than a handful of positive results and there are MANY users that are replying with negative results. For every one thread started where a “fix” is found from the copy pasted reply, 5 more people reply to the thread with the same issue who did not have the issue fixed by following those same steps.

I’m reaching out now because this issue for me, is a multi mouse problem that has not responded positively to ANY of the solutions I’ve found up to this point, and I’m wondering if there has been any form of deeper digging on the part of the developers to at least point to a true solution.

Characteristics of issue as I have seen it. Please if you’ve seen this issue comment your experiences.
(1) Holding down RMB to turn your character/camera is choppy or does not work at all.
(2) The issue is ONLY within WoW/WoW Classic. There are no other games (that I’ve yet seen to show this issue.
(3) This is a multi-device issue. Ruling out a failing RMB switch/sensor.
(4) The issue with detection of RMB is NOT present when clicking both LMB and RMB to run forward/turn.
(5) Most recent update (see below) SEEMS to show some interaction between light/shadow effects and frames, in relation to RMB detection.
(6) The issue seems to be entirely reserved to sensing the continued holding of RMB down for the purposes of character/camera directional control, as no other RMB interactions have been effected. (looting, RMB to attack, RMB to interact with NPC, etc)

Below: A copied list of previously mentioned potential solutions that have also not worked for me.

The Discord Overlay has been causing odd behaviors. If you use Discord - open the App. Down in left corner is a Gear icon. Click that then go to Overlay. Disable using the slide switch.

I would also check these troublesome Windows 10 “Features”

Go to the main wow folder. Down near the bottom of the list are 3 Wow icons (W) icons. World of Warcraft Launcher, Wow and Wow-64.

Right click on the Wow-64 icon. Select “Properties” at bottom of list. Then select “Compatibility” tab along top of next pane.

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

Then do the same on the World of Warcraft Launcher icon.

Next go to Windows > Settings > Gaming. Open Game DVR - disable background recording and audio recording. Disable the Game Bar while you are there.

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)

UPDATE
-I’ve now found at least SOME interaction between this bug and various lighting and shadow effects, and possibly some frames on the screen.
-In a recent run through Gnomer, while using the “/framestack” command I found that the large overlapping area in which a Mage’s wand glow, the Party/raid frame, and a shadowy area on my screen was a huge problem area for RMB detection.
-After stepping out of the dungeon I found that open world, brightly lit, but low glare areas are the least offensive with this issue.
-RMB detection in the shadow of a tree is also VERY bad.

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It’s definitely an issue with RMB detection. For instance, RMB will select any NPC/Pet/Player when it’s dragged over them. That’s not helpful or desirable when using RMB to pan the camera and turn the character. And yup, there are built in UI elements that cause the mouse to return to pointer mode. A similar thing would happen in Star Wars Galaxies where “mousing over” certain items would kick you out of mouse-look mode and into pointer mode. While I can’t offer any debugging or QA (I’m not on the payroll folks…), I can say with certainty that it’s borked. Would be nice if it was fixed, please and thanks.

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Came to post about this exact problem, really very annoying and killing the game for me honestly, tried 3 different mice and all do the same thing. Also noticed sometimes it’ll happen constantly then go 2-3hrs without it happening at all…

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Man wtf do we do about this… literally getting to an unplayable state, i right click on mobs by accident, camera constantly like stops looking around and cursor appears… never quit wow before because of technical issue but this is insane…

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Same thing happening to me. It didn’t start until yesterday, and it seems like it’s getting worse and worse. The game is unplayable because of this and it’s driving me crazy. I’ve tried literally every fix I can find.

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This is also happening to me. The suggested fixes have not worked. The issue doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it’s terrible :frowning:

Hoping for a fix!

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I just posted about this 2 days ago, and no one had a fix for it. It’s abnoxios and has become a problem especially playing as a rogue and not being able to transfer combo points from mob to mob. A single miss click and I loose my CPs… Blizz needs to fix this issue.

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This is ongoing sadly. Anyone found a fix yet?

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I’ve had this for a millennia and still don’t know what it’s from. It was really bad in WoD but they patched it or did something and it improved.

My experience is when using RMB to turn it will essentially let up even though I didn’t let the mouse button up. The hand will appear as though I’ve released the button and my cursor will move instead of my character.

This happens on multiple mouses and computers that I use wired and wireless.

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I have this similar problem. Just started noticing it about a month or so ago. When in combat I use mouse movement a lot. even two button forward.

This has become a big issue for me. I will two button mouse. My character will stutter step and just freeze there. Sometimes it moves fine and others I cant get it to go more than a stutter at all. This is almost always while in combat or sometimes, I think, when I select a target to start combat with.

Its driving me nuts because its forcing me to keyboard move and try to dps or tank at the same time or I get caught standing in bad.

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I’m also having the same issue. I tried what was recommended but it also did not fix the issue for me. Please help.

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Back after 8 year break. This problem is making things very difficult. Googling doesn’t help because of similar issues going back to 2011. Old fixes don’t seem to work.

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I’m at the point of considering the game unplayable until a fix is found for this. It is for sure worse indoors could be related to graphics in some form as mentioned previously, and also seems to change with camera distance.

Not sure why but it seems worse on my shaman than on my warlock. Possibly the ranged/melee difference.

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Same thing happening here, really wish we could get a blue to respond…

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I had this same issue a week ago. For me updating my Razer Synapse software seem to get rid of it.

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Please fix this Blizzard. It is still a problem.

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I just commented in length on another post about this but everything the OP mentioned is true I’ve tried all the “fixes” found across multiple forums and nothing has worked. Even reformatted and a fresh windows/wow install and its just worse every day. I’m just going to have to stop playing until a permanent solution is found, i cant take it anymore.

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Been having this issue for months now, the more I work on it the worse it seems to get. all the forums ive seen and no solution has worked.

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I thought i was imagining things that it was getting worse, but i guess not. I keep seeing people experiencing the issue but no actual solutions have come up. It has to be in the client and pretty sure something to do with shadows/textures.

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Hey y’all,

In the vast majority of cases I have seen involving this type of problem, the issue ended up being a specific addon that was causing a frame in the game. Even if you disable addons, the files are still loaded by the game and can cause weird issues. The only way to rule this out entirely is by doing a full UI reset without Twitch running.

Another common cause has been the Browser Acceleration option in the Blizzard app (Settings > General > Advanced Settings). Try disabling that and see if that fixes the problem.

I’d also recommend testing WoW without any other programs running by doing a selective startup, as conflicts with other programs are another cause.

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