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Mouse cursor occasionally going out of control
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#1
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Since scrims on thursday I noticed occasionally my mouse would just randomly do it's own thing. I would be healing people and then my aim would drift in one direction on its own, I would just start spinning around doing 360s, stuff like that until I lifted my mouse and fixed it.

Here's some information I think is useful:

- I'm pretty sure it's not my mouse. I use a steel series sensei and borrowed my brother's steel series rival and I still had the issue
- I'm pretty sure it's not my mousepad, as I cleaned it and still had the issue. I then borrowed my brother's mousepad (which is even dirtier than mine) and still had the issue
- I'm pretty sure it's related to tf2. I play csgo for fun and never noticed it happening, and I never noticed it happening when I wasn't in any game and just on my desktop / web browsers.
- I recently did something with a config that reset my game to all default settings so all my binds, hitsound, option settings and shit were reset to the default.

So yeah if anyone has any ideas about what it could be that'd be great. I'm hesitant to buy another mouse to see if that fixes the problem because using my brother's mouse didn't fix it.

Since scrims on thursday I noticed occasionally my mouse would just randomly do it's own thing. I would be healing people and then my aim would drift in one direction on its own, I would just start spinning around doing 360s, stuff like that until I lifted my mouse and fixed it.

Here's some information I think is useful:

- I'm pretty sure it's not my mouse. I use a steel series sensei and borrowed my brother's steel series rival and I still had the issue
- I'm pretty sure it's not my mousepad, as I cleaned it and still had the issue. I then borrowed my brother's mousepad (which is even dirtier than mine) and still had the issue
- I'm pretty sure it's related to tf2. I play csgo for fun and never noticed it happening, and I never noticed it happening when I wasn't in any game and just on my desktop / web browsers.
- I recently did something with a config that reset my game to all default settings so all my binds, hitsound, option settings and shit were reset to the default.

So yeah if anyone has any ideas about what it could be that'd be great. I'm hesitant to buy another mouse to see if that fixes the problem because using my brother's mouse didn't fix it.
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#2
4 Frags +

I've been having the exact same issue for ages with my steelseries rival, does it feel like your mouse keeps lagging and changing sensitivity all the time?

If so, my temporary fix has just been closing the steelseries engine when I play tf2, it seems to get rid of most of the issues.

I've been having the exact same issue for ages with my steelseries rival, does it feel like your mouse keeps lagging and changing sensitivity all the time?

If so, my temporary fix has just been closing the steelseries engine when I play tf2, it seems to get rid of most of the issues.
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#3
1 Frags +

I haven't had issues with my sensitivity, but I'll pay attention to the steel series engine being off when running tf2. I'm pretty sure I had the issue without it being run though

I haven't had issues with my sensitivity, but I'll pay attention to the steel series engine being off when running tf2. I'm pretty sure I had the issue without it being run though
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#4
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What OS are you using? I've had problems with Win10 and my mouse especially in TF2, only thing that helped was to re-install my OS. And I know a while ago few others had the same problem of their mouse doing weird stuff occasionally, if I remember correctly it had something to do with some Windows update.

What OS are you using? I've had problems with Win10 and my mouse especially in TF2, only thing that helped was to re-install my OS. And I know a while ago few others had the same problem of their mouse doing weird stuff occasionally, if I remember correctly it had something to do with some Windows update.
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#5
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Windows 10 but I haven't updated anything recently so idk why it would just randomly start on thursday

Windows 10 but I haven't updated anything recently so idk why it would just randomly start on thursday
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#6
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That happened to me a few months back, but yeah, like I said, the only thing that helped me was to re-install Win10.

That happened to me a few months back, but yeah, like I said, the only thing that helped me was to re-install Win10.
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#7
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Weird, because I use windows 7 and get the issue.

Weird, because I use windows 7 and get the issue.
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#8
5 Frags +

make sure m_rawinput is set to 1

after the windows 10 creators update i’m pretty sure having it set to 0 will make your mouse do exactly what you’re talking about

make sure m_rawinput is set to 1

after the windows 10 creators update i’m pretty sure having it set to 0 will make your mouse do exactly what you’re talking about
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#9
4 Frags +

I get this issue sometimes too, it's like my mouse is being dragged in a random direction. My mouse is relatively new and I don't get the issue in any other game so my guess is it is tf2 related.

I get this issue sometimes too, it's like my mouse is being dragged in a random direction. My mouse is relatively new and I don't get the issue in any other game so my guess is it is tf2 related.
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#10
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zheepmake sure m_rawinput is set to 1

after the windows 10 creators update i’m pretty sure having it set to 0 will make your mouse do exactly what you’re talking about

:o it was set to 0. I hope this was the problem

[quote=zheep]make sure m_rawinput is set to 1

after the windows 10 creators update i’m pretty sure having it set to 0 will make your mouse do exactly what you’re talking about[/quote]

:o it was set to 0. I hope this was the problem
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#11
2 Frags +

had this problem with my g pro and thought it was the mouse, turns out it actually was raw input being off (somehow)

had this problem with my g pro and thought it was the mouse, turns out it actually was raw input being off (somehow)
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#12
1 Frags +

Yeah I've been playing mge a lot today and haven't noticed it happening once. I'm going to assume that it's fixed unless it happens again. Thanks zheep!

Yeah I've been playing mge a lot today and haven't noticed it happening once. I'm going to assume that it's fixed unless it happens again. Thanks zheep!
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