Mouse offset problem with Steam client

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zer0bomb May 18, 2015 @ 7:26pm

Sometimes the Steam client gets confused about where the mouse is on the screen. To click on a button, I will have to put the cursor significantly below and to the right of the button I want to click on. Restarting the steam client usually fixes it. I'm not really sure what triggers the bug in the first place, although it might be related to changing screen resolution (e.g. when RDP-ing into the machine running the steam client.)

Has anyone else seen/permanently fixed this?

Picture of the problem:
http://imgur.com/5NAWIfT

In the picture, steam thinks the mouse cursor is over the "Steam Controller" button, but in reality it is below and to the right.

Windows 8.1, i7 950, Radeon HD 7850, 12GB ram
Steam package versions 1431729692
Drivers are updated, etc.

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Originally posted by btheshoe:

I actually had this problem you can actually fix this problem without changing the image size of literally everything else on your computer.

Just exit steam, right click on the steam icon, go to properties, go to compatibility, and check "override high dpi scaling behavior"

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Charlie May 6, 2023 @ 8:03pm

Originally posted by walk_the_moon:
Right click Steam --> Properties --> Compatibility tab --> click change DPI settings --> check "Program DPI"

This fixed in on Win11 for me

This seems to have worked for me on Win11, too (4k monitor). Thank you, hopefully it doesn't pop back up again.

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