While holding my right mouse button down in combat to turn my camera + character, it stops responding as if I let go of it. The cursor reappears as if I am no longer holding down my right mouse button. This only happens IN COMBAT.
I have had the reoccurring problems several times over the past couple of months. Eventually, after not being able to play the game due to this issue it just goes away, but eventually returns. I’ve read every forum I could find with this problem being discussed but have found nothing to fix the issue. I believe this has been referred to as the right mouse button not sticking.
I’ve deleted all addons, all addon managers, deleted and reinstalled wow 3 separate times, used multiple mice, reset my interface dozens of times, submitted tickets providing info, etc only to be told: “reset ur UI” “it’s your addons” “blah blah blah,” you name it, but with no solution.
Before anyone wastes their time, this is not an addon issue, this is not my mouse “going bad.”
If anyone has actually found a solution I would really appreciate it because the game is completely unplayable with this happening.
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This started happening to me in the last hour.
Started happening to me today.
Just to rule this out:
https://codepen.io/blink172/pen/vERyxK
When you right-click 100 times in the orange area, do you get a measurement of 100 clicks?
If so, then:
- Close everything and just get a blank desktop.
- Right-click and hold anywhere in a blank space.
- Drag the “window” around for a minute.
- Does it hold the “window” shape, or does it turn into the context menu? (View, Sort By, Refresh, etc.)
As much as the community may insist software or game issues cause these mouse problems, my personal experience has been that these are the result of a failing mouse. Personally, I go through about two gaming mice a year (Razer, Logitech, Microsoft; the brand doesn’t matter) and the reason they all fail is because of switches that won’t “stay down” even though I am pressing the button down.
To make things more complicated, when a mouse starts to fail, the fail is intermittent. It might happen one day and not the next. It might happen in one game and not another. It’s pretty random until the switch is pushed beyond the “starting to fail” point.
If it’s none of the above, then my apologies for the time-waster. It’s definitely best to just rule out the hardware first, though.
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Same issue, game is becoming unplayable. There are currently 3 different threads up about this issue, yet there hasn’t been a blizzard response, but don’t worry; those connection issues from a world boss got a response.
^ I just posted in a different thread about the issue. I hope Blizzard investigates soon, but people have been sporadically posting about this since 2018 and earlier. I’m not optimistic.
Why is this still an issue after all these years?
Does ANYONE have a fix for this? I’ve tried the suggestions I’ve seen but nothing works.
Can confirm this is still happening, none of my other games have this issue with right or left mouse actions.
Happening to me as well. I will sometimes stop running mid combat while holding the buttons, or fail to start running until I click them 3-4 times. Been occurring for the past few weeks but lately it has been really bad, and started effecting my wife as well.
I’ve had this issue as well. The mouse is only misbehaving in WoW, it works fine elsewhere.