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when playing a lot of games, i often find that the mouse goes outside the window. postal 2 is the worst for this, but pretty much anything on the doom 3 engine does it a lot too...

i tried checking "allow directx to keep the mouse from leaving the window" but that did nothing to help it.

any advice on how to fix this?d

Hi,

What you are seeing there, is winebug #6971 ...see;

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971

There is no real fix for that issue as of yet. There are a couple of
registry tricks you can try, but they don't always work...see the post
by Ken near the bottom of the following thread;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/advocate/?t=1;mhl=87478;msg=87413#msg87478

Cheers!

when i attempt to view that thread, for some reason i get this message:

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could you perhaps copy and paste the relevant post? thanks

Sorry about that, forget to check if you were an advocate or not...(oops)..

Ken Thomases wrote;

"First, there's a setting in winecfg to allow DirectX apps to prevent the mouse from leaving the window, although I'm not sure its reliable.

The other thing to try is the MouseWarpOverride setting in the registry. You can run regedit using CrossOver's Run Command dialog. Within the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/AppDefaults/<whatever>.exe /DirectInput. For each key that may be missing in that key path, you can create it using Edit > New > Key. Then, with the DirectInput selected, you do Edit > New > String value. Give the new string value the name "MouseWarpOverride" (without the quotes). For the value, try "force" or "force_edge" (without the quotes). You'll have to experiment to see which works best or remove the setting if it makes things worse."

Cheers!

ah, stupid question... what would <whatever>.exe mean?

i assumed it would be the application that needs fixing, but that's not listed in there.

Hi,

The '<whatever>.exe' term refers to the name of the actual game executable
itself. Obviously that name will vary from game to game, which is why Ken's
used 'whatever' to account for that situation...ie; for HalfLife2 the term
<whatever>.exe would be hl2.exe | for the game GRID the <whatever>.exe term
would be grid.exe ...etc and so forth...

Cheers!