Game UI gets stuck in "Touch" mode (holding left mouse)

[Culveyhouse]

I looked through the discussions and couldn't find this issue yet. Sometimes (about 1 out of 8 times), when I interact with anything that requires me to hold the left mouse, the game gets "stuck" in the interaction mode and will not let me exit and continue the game. These are the interactions such as "Touch" prompt or a text that opens one of those bluish "insight" bubbles.

The game doesn't crash, and it keeps rendering everything normally, however I get trapped in that one single interaction, unable to exit. Nothing will exit me out, not even the escape key. The only way to solve it is to force switch to desktop and kill the process, then restart the game. You can imagine how annoying this is given the limited autosave events. Do the developers or anyone have any insight into this intermittent but game-breaking bug?

One prime example: I found the "Railcar" clue that focused in on the railcar . When I click and hold down the left mouse button, the blue insight bubble starts to grow but fizzles out with an in-game sound, with a "Hold to exit" prompt. Nothing will exit me out of that interaction, even though the game itself is still rendering normally.

[twista]

same problem here... :\

[M!]

Just started playing today, and I'm encountering this pretty frequently as well.

[mirandasmi]

The same thing happened to me.
I had to turn off the computer, and subsequently had to change the mouse port to get the mouse working again on my desktop.
tbh it has really put me off going back into the game.

[inezryan]

Yep, I've had this problem too. Game stuck in the touch mode, had to ctrl-alt-del to get out of it. That wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the inability to do a manual save. Last night I'd walked for miles in the virtual world and uncovered a few clues, only to find myself back at the beginning of the story when I reloaded. Very frustrating, I simply don't have enough free time to keep repeating scenes every time I reload. Please fix!

[[GER] derChat]

Same here with the railcar once: http://steamcommunity.com/app/258520/discussions/0/619568192813266850/

[Seph]

Hi guys...i've been looking for some aswers about this problem and some problems related with the TOUCH sensing parts in the game.....Whenever i try to hold the sense button my game crashes saying "astronautsgame-Win32-Shipping.exe stopped working"....i've been looking for some threads regarding the this and how to help....haven't find amolst anyone that helps....Anyway i tried to play the game a bit after the start where u have 2 touch events....both crash my game....i tried to play a bit after that without strating thos 2 touch events and when i get to the body on the rail roar where's another touch event it crashes again....Hmmm
I uninstalled the game and installed with my anti-virus turned off......did the same with it on.....i change the configuration and setting in game....nothing works.....Does anyone has a real fix for this problem???I really could use some help people!!Thanks in advance

[Jerkov Climaxim]

This issue happened to me, lowered msaa and it works, but still making touch thing work is horrifyingly problematic, but that's because maybe my lmb got a little bit dull.

[AXL313]

I had the same issue. I manipulated the textures to medium/low, the smoothing to the lowest setting within the game settings. I then changed the settings to my driver to reflect optimal performace - this helped the game lagging and freezing significantly, however I am still occassionally getting stuck in the game and having to do the same process of switching to the desktop as escape was not working for me either. Try messing with some settings to help get optimal performace versus having your computer in a power save mode. If you have your computer on power save mode it will significantly affect the performance of the game. Hopefully this helps, but if you are able to locate a permanent solution to getting stuck in the game, please post.

[crab]

A fix that worked for me was setting the display mode to "fullscreen windowed". The UI didint get stuck anymore and i could finish the game from there. Hope this helps!