unplayable with Windows built-in magnifier

[Mark]

As a gamer with a disability I have to play this game using the Windows magnifier tool. While the screen zooms in when I start the demo it stops following the mouse. I'm usually able to fix this issue if a game has an option to use the hardware or Windows cursor. There's no option like that here, and I couldn't locate a config file. Suggestions on how to fix this would be welcome.

[Catman]

I just tried the magnifier tool on win11 and it works for me on dotAGE, what settings do you have? I'll look whether I can add the hardware cursor option

[Mark]

Originally posted by Catman:

I just tried the magnifier tool on win11 and it works for me on dotAGE, what settings do you have? I'll look whether I can add the hardware cursor option

I'm using it in full screen mode, and have it set to follow the mouse cursor and narration. Were you able to get the zoomed in view to follow the cursor? Thanks for the quick reply.

[Catman]

No problem! Yes, it seems to work, I am using Win11 magnifier without touching anything, weird! Never used it before

[Mark]

Originally posted by Catman:

No problem! Yes, it seems to work, I am using Win11 magnifier without touching anything, weird! Never used it before

I bet you're using the lense setting. A magnified rectangle that can be moved around. I switched to that, and it did work. You may have noticed that it's prety clunky. Switching the lense to full screen mode (ctrl+alt+f) with the setting for the cursor to stay in the middle of the screen, works much better for me. Much less effort to keep track of what's going on and where I am onscreen.

[Catman]

EDIT: I was already using the fullscreen mode and it works for me (indeed the magnified rectangle is clunky instead)

[Mark]

Originally posted by Catman:

EDIT: I was already using the fullscreen mode and it works for me (indeed the magnified rectangle is clunky instead)

I wonder what's causing me to have this issue? I'm running Win 11 with a Geforce GTX 1960 Ti video card. I updated video driver, but that didn't fix it. Two things that may shed some light. One, I'm playing the demo. Two, when I start the demo the magnified view follows the cursor just fine, but after a few seconds of the game loading it stops following the cursor.

[Catman]

Could you try getting into the game settings and disable cursor locking? That is to lock the cursor inside the game window, maybe it is acting up?

[Mark]

Originally posted by Catman:

Could you try getting into the game settings and disable cursor locking? That is to lock the cursor inside the game window, maybe it is acting up?

Good suggestion. Done, but no joy. I then tried it with different screen modes and turning off v-sync. Still not tracking cursor. Thanks again for continueing to troublshoot this.