Any fix to the Dual-Monitor issue with the mouse?

[NovaKatt😽💚]

So, I've just installed the game, fired it up, took a spin in the Settings, made my character, watched the cutscenes and was then able to start moving around.... except, something is wrong.

Usually, playing in Fullscreen locks the mouse inside the game completely unless you manually alt-tab out from the game.

Usually, Windowed Fullscreen allows you to move the mouse outside the game without it minimizing, and it allows you to do so when you are in places where the game gives you an actual cursor. Like in the menus, inventory, etcetera.
But when you close the menus and get back to your character, moving the mouse around will have your character look around, and the "invisible cursor" is pretty much locked to the middle of the screen, where your crosshair is, for instance.

But not this game apparently.
If I start to turn my character around to look behind me, or you know, just look to the side, it works for a little bit, until it doesn't, because suddenly my mouse is outside the game, on the other monitor, so if I click anything now, I'll just click outside the game and defocus it.
Even worse if you're running a multiple-computer setup with Mouse Without Borders or something, because then you also stop turning around as soon as you leave the game screen, since you're literally on another computer.

So... is there a fix to this? Something that actually locks the mouse inside the window when the menus are not open, but allows it when they are. As most games usually work when it comes to multiple monitors.

At first I thought it would be simple, Sure I'll just have to use Fullscreen then... but no, that's basically the same as Windowed Fullscreen, and as soon as I try to look around, the mouse leaves the screen.

I've googled around a bit but it's been hard to find anything, and I found nothing at all in this Steam Discussion forums about it, so it looks like people are managing to play the game.
What's your solution?
I really don't want the only solution to be something like disconnect the other monitor or something, because that's just a cumbersome and tedious non-fix. Especially if you paus the game to look something up on google on the other monitor, or reply to someone on discord or messenger or anything else.

So, any help here? As it stands right now the game looks to be playable in terms of performance, but is unplayable unless I only look in one single direction and never turn my mouse around.

[ReBoot]

I've set the game to run in fullscreen explicitly. It's not the same as a borderless window (what you just called "windowed fullscreen"), it captures the mouse for good. Unless you're in a menu with the cursor visible. Then it can leave the game screen. When there's no cursor on-screen, fullscreen captures the mouse for good.

[NovaKatt😽💚]

I mentioned that in the 2nd paragraph thou unfortunately. :/
It states that most games do what you said in fullscreen. Then the 3rd paragraph mentioned how most games handle the borderless things.
And then the 4th paragraph was the statement "Not this game thou!", so this happens in all modes. So that's weird. :/
Windowed, Windowed Borderless AND Fullscreen.

After reading other posts I've also turned off the Discord overlay,
and turned of the Origin overlay (because I have the same issue with Jedi: Fallen Order)
Unplugged any handcontrollers I have.
Restarted the computer afterwards.
And there was some other fix I tried too, but I've forgotten which one it was otherwise I'd mention that too. XD

Eventually I got bothered and decided to try Jedi: Fallen Order instead... and had the very same issue.... >_>
So I thought "maybe something messed up on my end with -all- fps games in general?".
But after a quick test by starting a bunch of other first and third person games I have.... that wasn't the case, as all the other games works as intended. It's only these two games. :/

Only difference between these two is that, while it's hard to find, at least I do find posts about it on google, but without solutions. For the Fallen Order I don't find a single post about it. x)

But here is hoping that I can find some way to make it work, without totally shutting away chrome access on the other monitor for instance. So turning the monitor of or unplugging it isn't really going to help me. x)

Worst case scenario I'll just need to have the Mouse Without Borders program open in the background, so when I want to play the game I turn it off so it's just that computers monitor, and when I need to access Chrome I'll have to alt-tab to the program, turn it on, and then go to the chrome on the other computers monitor.. and then turn it off again when I'm back to the game....
That should work, but will also be absolutely cumbersome and not a good solution at all. :P

[Bandy]

MouseJail works a charm:
https://lifehacker.com/mousejail-keeps-your-cursor-on-the-right-screen-5056337

But not sure it is available from the author, so be careful where to download. I may have an old install copy somewhere...

[NovaKatt😽💚]

But will it lock it always until turned off, or will it allow free monitor travel when I'm in menus and stuff?
Otherwise I could just temporarily disconnect Mouse Without Borders in the background when I'm playing, and the alt-tab to reconnect whenever I need the separate monitor.
I'm hoping for some fix to make it work like most "normal" games where the invisible mouse-lookaround thing is locked but not when I'm in menus and stuff. :)

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Lady Saga:

But will it lock it always until turned off, or will it allow free monitor travel when I'm in menus and stuff?...

If I remember correctly you add the game .exe to a list, but you may have read that already...

[Northern_Ranger01]

the mouse going of screen is a known issue with the game and since its been out for a while know i doubt it'll get fixed. The method i use is explained in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulzoJgoMI0