Any way to get rid of the mouse cursor?

[theatrical cat]

I'm playing the game with a 360 controller and it works fine, excetpt whenever I pause the game or look at the map/upgrades/Riddler challenges/character bios, the mouse cursor appears in the center of the screen. It doesn't affect gameply at all, but it is really annoying- any way to shut that off? I've dug through the game options and couldn't find anything.

[Broso]

I have the exact same problem. The game is awesome but the stupid mouse pointer / cursor popping up in the middle of the screen whenever I open the map screen is annoying as hell.

[Broso]

Well, it's a bit sad to see that nobody really seems to care about this. I think this cursor thing is quite annoying.

But I have found a workaround. It requires a third party software called "AutoHideMouseCursor" and you can get it here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/AutoHideMouseCursor.shtml

It is freeware and simple to use. You just have to make sure not to move your mouse while it is running. Also take note that the first time after activating it and opening the map, the mouse cursor will show once because the game relocates it to the middle of the screen.

[Laffinkippah]

I had trouble with Batman:AC and programs that automatically hide the cursor. My solution was using nomousy: http://www.thefreewindows.com/3335/hide-andor-restrict-the-cursor-of-your-mouse-with-nomousy/

It's also freeware, although the download page is a bit annoying in that, if you want to download the program you have to click on the 'Like/Follow/+1' buttons. Oh, well.

I tried several approaches (using hotkeys, lauching the game from a bat file that first hid the mouse...). In the end what's working best for me is adding nomousy to Steam as a non-Steam game and running it before I lauch Batman: AC.

Undoubtedly an involved and convoluted method to work around a silly problem that just shouldn't happen in such a modern, high-profile game in this day and age.

[Dylan]

Or just move the cursor all the way to the right of the screen by placing your hand on the mouse and moving it to the right.

[Broso]

Originally posted by Spackeck Ittee:

Or just move the cursor all the way to the right of the screen by placing your hand on the mouse and moving it to the right.

Well aren't you a smart one, huh? Do you really think the people to be too stupid to think of that themselves? The problem with your ingenious solution is that the cursor keep getting placed at the center of the screen automatically.

[Jeff]

I'm playing this for the first time and can't believe this is a problem. The devs do all that work to make a PC version or port, only to completely ignore the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mouse pointer resetting at the center of the screen every time we open the map? Do they do this just to ♥♥♥♥ with us?

[Hawthorne]

Wow, pseudo-necro, but this was tilting me so much; as others have mentioned, though a lot of games forget to hide the mouse cursor, you can typically just throw the cursor into the bottom right one time and forget about it, while this game constantly resets it to the middle of the screen.

So the good news is Virsalus' method (AutoHideMouseCursor app) worked! BUT I believe the default setting is "aggresive strategy," which doesn't work (or at least didn't for me) -- I had to switch it to "classic strategy." Hallelujah!

[Jeff]

Yeah, thank goodness for the guy who made AutoHideMouseCursor. Doing what a multimillion dollar-earning studio can't.

I'm anticipating those new Batman games currently making headlines are going to have the exact same problem. They'll develop the games for consoles, then give PC players another poorly executed port.

It's just unfortunate that their games actually play better with mouse/keyboard. If they were superior on controllers, I'd at least have incentive to purchase the games for console. As it is, I have incentive to purchase neither.

[TheeSpongeman]

9 years and this problem still hasn't been fixed. Such a simple line of code they could input, but they don't bother.

[Tommysonic5]

Originally posted by TheeSpongeman:

9 years and this problem still hasn't been fixed. Such a simple line of code they could input, but they don't bother.

I just wanted to say I don't have this issue. Not sure if due to the controller type (Xbox Series X on Bluetooth in my case) or OS (Win11 Pro 22H2) or the mod I'm using (Advanced Launcher + Arkham City Redux textures), or if maybe you just have something else going on causing the cursor issue.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by Tommysonic5:

Originally posted by TheeSpongeman:

9 years and this problem still hasn't been fixed. Such a simple line of code they could input, but they don't bother.

I just wanted to say I don't have this issue. Not sure if due to the controller type (Xbox Series X on Bluetooth in my case) or OS (Win11 Pro 22H2) or the mod I'm using (Advanced Launcher + Arkham City Redux textures), or if maybe you just have something else going on causing the cursor issue.

I'm betting it's the mod. Leave it up to modders to always show the actual developers how it's done.

[GaseousSnake420]

Originally posted by theatrical cat:

I'm playing the game with a 360 controller and it works fine, excetpt whenever I pause the game or look at the map/upgrades/Riddler challenges/character bios, the mouse cursor appears in the center of the screen. It doesn't affect gameply at all, but it is really annoying- any way to shut that off? I've dug through the game options and couldn't find anything.

If you unplug your mouse from the PC the cursor will disappear.

[GaseousSnake420]

Disregard my last comment unfortunately. It disappeared when I unplugged it but showed back up when I paused again. I doubt many PC players play this with a mouse and keyboard even. Kind of a lame oversight. Still, console versions don't look this good.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by GaseousSnake420:

Disregard my last comment unfortunately. It disappeared when I unplugged it but showed back up when I paused again. I doubt many PC players play this with a mouse and keyboard even. Kind of a lame oversight. Still, console versions don't look this good.

I can't recall the details, but there is a way to create a mouse icon 'profile' where essentially you would add a blank image for it so that when you're playing the game, you activate that 'profile' and there's a blank cursor. It's a bit of work, but worth it.

[JadzP]

Originally posted by Hawthorne:

Wow, pseudo-necro, but this was tilting me so much; as others have mentioned, though a lot of games forget to hide the mouse cursor, you can typically just throw the cursor into the bottom right one time and forget about it, while this game constantly resets it to the middle of the screen.

So the good news is Virsalus' method (AutoHideMouseCursor app) worked! BUT I believe the default setting is "aggresive strategy," which doesn't work (or at least didn't for me) -- I had to switch it to "classic strategy." Hallelujah!

Thanks for mentioning that part about changing to classic strategy for the app to hide the cursor in Arkham City. I'd tried both the other options it had without thinking to try the classic one & probably wouldn't have thought to at this point so I'm really thankful you mentioned that part.