Can't get mouse cursor to move at all.

[Majestic Fantastic]

I'm using a logitech G502 and it seems AGS has issues with logitech mice as both this game and another AGS game I've tried (Shardlight) both give me the same issue: The mouse cursor is stuck in the centre of the screen from the moment I launch the game and can't be moved.

Things i've tried which have had zero effect:
Running the game in both windowed mode and fullscreen.
Disabling "enhance pointer precision" in Windows.
Disabling logitech gaming software.
Uninstalling logitech gaming software.
Lowering the DPI and report rate of the mouse.
Disabling steam overlay.

Any ideas here? I don't have any kind of backup mouse to try.

[Mark Y.]

AGS definitely has problems with Logitech mice. Unfortunately, it sounds like you've tried all the approaches I can imagine would help. One dumb idea: have you tried updating the mouse drivers?

In the meanwhile, let me look around and see what I can find.

(Also, that is truly herculean effort on your part to try to play our game -- I'll feel terrible if we can't get this working for you.)

[Mark Y.]

Ha, just reposted a technique but then I saw it was in your thread already. I'm really at a loss.

[Mark Y.]

Talked with the coder, and he proposed that you try a game in the newer version of the AGS engine, which might give us some more information to go on as to whether this is a fixable problem. He proposed giving this one a try: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2221/

Honestly, I wish I could promise you that Primordia is worth all this hassle, but I'm starting to get nervous suggesting that you spend more time trying to get it to start. (Honestly, given the value of your time, you might be better off just buying a $5 substitute mouse.)

[Majestic Fantastic]

Ah man, after trying out that game you suggested I realised what the problem was: my bloody antivirus containing things without telling me. My AV (Comodo) gave me a warning on installing I Want Out! and after I ok'd it and ran the game, the mouse was working perfectly. I relaunched the game a few minutes later just to double check everything and suddenly I was getting the same issue as Primordia and Shardlight. I soon realised that despite telling my AV the program was safe, it still blocked the game and looking through the list of blocked applications, I noticed the other AGS games I was having issues with (none of which my AV notified me of) which now seem to work fine. I think Comodo just seems to hate AGS.

Thank you for the quick reply, I wasn't expecting it to be an antivirus issue but I probably wouldn't have noticed what was causing it if I hadn't downloaded the game you linked and saw that it was working temporarily. I've got at least 2 other games on the AGS engine on my backlog so at least I should be able to play those without issue now.

[Mark Y.]

YES!

I consider this one of the finest "technical tap" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technical_tap) fixes to Primordia of all time. Of course, this may be like a grueling mountain ascent only to discover that you now have a giant view of a dump (literally, since one of the first locations in Primordia is a junkpile), but hopefully at least one of the AGS games will be worth it!