Controls getting stuck

[Radioactive Panda]

Sometimes when moving objects or holding middle mouse to look around the controls get locked and then the camera starts moving and you can't control it and need to alt tab to fix it but then it just happens again, It's so annoying, this happen to anyone else?

[Vulturecorpse]

YESSS!! Was literally looking for anyone talking about this. Have you found a solution? The only thing I've found to "fix" any of it is when the camera starts moving you can press once in the same direction it's moving then it'll stop (temporarily). But the issue remains. It's as if the game suddenly turns on some sort of "camera mode" (I've checked it's not that) because all the symptoms are the same every time. No wireless mouse, no controller, I've verified files, I have no mods, I have all default settings.

List of "symptoms" while this is happening.
- Camera moves on it's own, have to press same direction camera is moving and it'll temporarily stop but may or may not begin again while moving around camera with WASD
- Unable to press most/all keys, even escape
- unable to/barely able to rotate camera with scroll wheel, it moves very very slowly or not at all
- Mouse icon disappears

This occurs while I am building 90% of the time.

[Steak Squad]

I've had this happen a lot and to fix it I usually just save the zoo and go back to the menu. When I reopen the zoo it's fixed.

In my experience, I figured out that this only happens at some point after I've opened the ingame steam menu (Shift-Tab) to look at the workshop or something. It's not instant, usually taking like 15-30 minutes before the bug occurs.

Since I realized that, whenever I want to open the workshop while I'm ingame I just alt-tab out instead and I haven't experienced this bug ever since

[ColorsOfValhalla]

I came here looking for a thread on this problem, nice to know its not my PC and something wrong with the game. Hopefully they'll fix it.. Eventually lol.

[Vulturecorpse]

Originally posted by Steak Squad:

I've had this happen a lot and to fix it I usually just save the zoo and go back to the menu. When I reopen the zoo it's fixed.

In my experience, I figured out that this only happens at some point after I've opened the ingame steam menu (Shift-Tab) to look at the workshop or something. It's not instant, usually taking like 15-30 minutes before the bug occurs.

Since I realized that, whenever I want to open the workshop while I'm ingame I just alt-tab out instead and I haven't experienced this bug ever since

Great note! Will attempt this and see if it makes any change on my end. If it does it will be easier for multiple of us to report a clear issue

[Radioactive Panda]

I'm just really surprised they haven't fixed this issue yet since it is REALLY annoying when the controls get stuck like this, makes me not want to play the game, this issue has been here since the very start when the game first came out.

[Dragoncuali]

This has been occurring since day one. Usually I just save, exit and re-enter what map/build I was just doing.

[Arcelia]

Yeah I've noticed this today too. No matter what I do my controls specifically camera and placement get stuck constantly. Even without opening the Steam menu. Exiting to the main menu and reloading doesn't seem to help either. The game is basically unplayable as is which is really sad.

[grampers62]

It is a known issue that alt+tab or Shift+tab can cause input errors. It seems to be related to how the game initializes input functions.
Also noticing that some background apps in windows 11 can sort of rob control of planet zoo. Be sure to disable all background apps when playing PZ.

[Lula Sem Shift]

2025 and this still hasn't been fixed. I reinstalled the game to relax. Uninstalling again.

[KevUK]

well annoying ain't it has always being a thing and never fixed!!

[Radioactive Panda]

I dont understand how they haven't fixed it yet..it is kinda game breaking