Any way to lock mouse to the window?

[Torey]

Even in fullscreen mode my mouse will drift outside the game and into my other monitor. Is there any way to fix this? This is with it fullscreen on my main monitor and not in multi monitor mode.

[Fnek]

Bump

[Torey]

Bump

[The Stingray]

This needs to be fixed. I just purchased the game and closed it after 10 minutes because of this.

[PQHack]

I have 3 monitors and a monster setup with SLI'd overclocked GTX 670's plus 460 on the side for PhysX. ANd performance is worse than Crysis lol. I think this game is sort-of running in windowed mode even when it appears as if full-screen. Alt-Shift-Enter seems to work okay if i actually disable the other 2 monitors, but I shouldn't have to do that every time I want to play the damn game!

Stretching to all 3 monitors via Alt-Shift-Enter is not preferred to me unless they add some options for moving around the map in the bottom strip. It's hard to look at the map in the lower right corner of 3rd monitor and the building grid on the lower left of 1st monitor. Now I wouldn't have to look at the building grid if they allowed more advanced hotkeys, such as conflicting keys for basic vs advanced buildings. Also if i want to scroll while having selected units, I now have to go beyond 3rd or beyond 1st monitor's edge., which means moving mouse around like crazy and lifting it off the mouse pad. A cool feature that might work would be 3-monitor viewing area but mouse still locked to the central monitor and map+building grid also only in the center monitor. That way the extra monitors on the left and on the right would be for viewing purposes only (so you see wider area of the game), and controls would remain manageable.

Hint: if you do not have any units selected (e.g., left-click on an empty space on the terrain), then you can hold down right-click while moving your mouse. This moves the location of your viewing screen without having to move mouse to edges of your edge monitor(s).

[BigBicepz]

i hope they fix it :) rly annoying when you're scouting most of the time i just open something on my second screen so i rly hope they make some option to rly play on fullscreen mode :)

[Langy]

Here's a small application that locks the mouse into one window.[veeteesoftware.blogspot.co.uk]

This was suggested in a reddit thread, tried it out and it works exactly as advertised. However for me, simply having 2 monitors active and unused lowers the game performance significantly; as soon as I disable the second monitor the game plays *flawlessly* performance wise, so I'm sticking to that.

Instructions from the Blog:

Specify window
Right click the icon on the taskbar, click specify. Now left click inside the window you want to specify (not on the taskbar).
Enable Capture/Release mode
Press your set hotkey to enable/disable capture mode. The icon will change color to indicate the status:

• White: WMC is not enabled for capturing
  
• Yellow: WMC is enabled for capturing but window isnt active
  
• Red: WMC has captured the mouse

To switch windows either alt-tab or press the hotkey to disable capture mode.
Change hotkey
Right click the icon on the taskbar, click inside the text box and press your hotkey.

[Atrus]

Not scrolling off the screen would definitely be nice! I'll try out the WMC app in the meantime.

[Fnek]

If have a fix for that in my custom Launcher, works for me :D
http://www.moddb.com/games/age-of-empires-ii-hd/downloads/age-of-empires-ii-hd-custom-launcher

[Kosaro]

For any future users visiting this post (like me), the solution is to disable windowed mode under graphics options.

[p@t]

FIX for the aoe 2 definitive edition people:
Options -> Interface -> Clamp mouse to window

[Fnek]

Originally posted by MrPatTheRick:

FIX for the aoe 2 definitive edition people:
Options -> Interface -> Clamp mouse to window

This thread is 8 years old :D

[Kosaro]

Originally posted by WhAtEvErYoUmEaN:

Originally posted by MrPatTheRick:

FIX for the aoe 2 definitive edition people:
Options -> Interface -> Clamp mouse to window

This thread is 8 years old :D

People still stumble upon it, always nice to have updated answers.

[Fnek]

Originally posted by Kosaro:

Originally posted by WhAtEvErYoUmEaN:

This thread is 8 years old :D

People still stumble upon it, always nice to have updated answers.

Okay, yeah. Makes sense.

[RaulFury]

And I am a perfect example of someone finding an answer/setting to this question 8 years later :)
Thank you

[big lebRowski^^]

Originally posted by MrPatTheRick:

FIX for the aoe 2 definitive edition people:
Options -> Interface -> Clamp mouse to window

Niiice, 10 yo thread saved me, thanks man