mouse cursor visible ingame, stuck in center

[Pille]

Sometimes, my mouse cursor becomes visible onscreen ingame. It's stuck in the center of the screen. Going into inventory or pressing escape gives me a normal mouse cursor that behaves correctly. Going back into the game I have a stuck mouse cursor again.

I thought it's because of my 2nd monitor, but it happened again after switching it off in nvidia control panel. I though it's because of Fullscreen, but it happened in Windowed too. Basically I have no idea how to trigger it or how to fix it.

But there's one thing I do know: it's only happening in Unity games. And in The Forest, it started happening after 0.57 or 0.58.

[Pille]

In case anyone else has this problem and finds this thread, here are a bunch of ressources I used to troubleshoot the problem:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/496881136898365407

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20744534321?page=4

https://superuser.com/questions/53740/why-is-my-usb-mouse-disconnecting-and-reconnecting-randomly-and-often

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/189369/how-can-i-stop-the-windows-cursor-from-appearing-over-skyrim

In the end, it was a dying Logitech mouse that caused instantanenous disconnect-reconnects. These reconnects of the mouse made it pop up in front of the game.

[In.Constant.Ruin]

I had this problem when I left my 360 controller plugged in to my PC. Unplugged it never happened. Its also stopped occurring since I replaced it with a newer xboxone controller.

[Pensionaru]

Plugging out the controller helped me ! Thanks @In.Constant.Ruin

[CyberDethX]

Thank you so much for posting this originally. Playing this game in 2023 and this issue still exists. I tracked it down to disconnecting the mouse. I have two computers that share a keyboard and mouse and I switch between them with a KVM switch. The second I do that, The Forest generates the options menu white glove mouse pointer in the middle of the screen.
Thanks to this thread, I was able to identify, test and verify that behavior. Fortunately, I can fix it by backing out to the main menu (without having to exit the game), but that's still not a good option when hosting for several other players. I also have to ignore my secondary system entirely as one quick swap over to it means I have to stare at the options mouse cursor in the middle of the screen for the rest of my play session.
It's shocking to me how much of a lack of support this game has had post-release. Doesn't give a good outlook for the sequel Sons of the Forest.