Cursor tracking stopped in windows 10... (Kensington Trackball Orbit)

[Tesan]

Since yesterday afternoon, I experienced that most of my games have lost their capability to track or incorporate my mouse input... for example, in shooters the cursor just stays in the damn windows background while the in-game cursor is solid frozen in the top left corner. I League of Legends it does track the mouse but does not recieve any clicks.... apparently only a cursor related problem because I could use the chat.

Please anyone knows how to solve this? Only VALVE games apparently are still working flawlessly while most others god rid of the mouse input....

It must be a problem related to the OS as it's not swapping the mouse lock to the game itself since yesterday afternoon.

Additional information: I'm not a dual-monitor and I usually play my games in windowed mode... however fullscreen mode won't solve anything.


Solved : After some Windows 10 updates, driver and hardware system got fizzled... but only with the normal Kensington drivers for my trackball... the games probably lock to the fake mouse (my mouse projects multiple virtual devices.... once the real one and then the kensington driver with the additional features) which makes it impossible to play.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Some games u need to ALT+TAB into them after they launch
This occurs due to the UAC popping up

[Tesan]

I Did that by instinct allready, it does not work.

I repeat, until yesterday morning I didn't have this problem... since yesterday afternoon I'm unable to use my cursor in games like Dying Light,Life is Strange ... strange in some games like Arma II and all Valve games it still works fine. In games like League of Legends it tracks my cursor position but wont' react to clicks.

And additionally, I do not browse illegalm websites neither adult entertainment websites with this PC. Only Steam, Gmail and Youtube... so I doubt that it would be a virus.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Did u try other Mice?
Do u have any 3rd party mouse driver or software installed for mice? Try uninstall those.

[Tesan]

But the mouse is working in the normal windows environment and I was using that software the entire time...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just cause it works fine in WinOS doesn't mean anything.
Some games DO NOT like 3rd Party mouse software.

[Tesan]

Well, I will try however, I started playing all those games with this mouse and witht hat software long time ago and it was working until now.
Neither the software from the mouse (Kensington Trackball Works) nor the games itself updated in the time... it must be related to windows as it autoupdates because when something does not change, it should not change.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Did u Upgrade to Win10? That most likely is your issue here; as previous Drivers/Software can easily get in the way, as Win10 might not like those old/previous OS Drivers/Software.

[Tesan]

I updated weaks ago... and now something strange happened...

I connected my Logitech wireless keyboard with touchpad to check if the touchpad works (worked), to do so I disconected a 8-10 years old keyboard. Touchpad worked... and then I tested the trackball again.... works now too... for the moment. Any idea what is causing this problem?

[Tesan]

Okay so here's the summary: Since the last windows defender update Kensington Trackball Works got screwed by Microsoft... I have to uninstall the driver data from the pc and use the generic default mouse driver... that works however now I get some fat input lag in those games where I didn't have that but therefor the problem that it stopped working.

AWESOME! :|

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Defender wouldn't cause that kind of issues; in Win10 go to Settings > Updates and Security > Advanced > Updates History and see what all has recently updated.

And if u get "input lagg" sometimes this can happen due to various USB / Chipset devices sharing resources; simply try the mouse on another USB port.

[Tesan]

For the last few days I only recieved windows defender updates. Nothing else.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then go to the Support webpage for your Mouse device and download the latest Drivers / Software

[Tesan]

I did that allready. Caused the same problem and now it only connects the generic driver.... even tho the programm is installed.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Mice often will only use Generic Driver; it's the software that really matters; if that works; then it works. There usually is no such thing as a newer mouse driver. Whatever the OS has, that is usually all that exists for things like Mouse and Keyboard; the MS Driver from 2006

EDIT:
To see if it is somehow due to Windows Defender; click that icon; or open it another way; such as Settings > Updates and Security > Defender > Launch/Change Settings; then in Defender's settings, try temp disable "Realtime Scanning Protection" and apply. If the mouse or other things still having issues; then it's not due to Defender.

[Tesan]

My mouse was using the kensington driver all the way, writing date was from 2011... and I think the generic one is from 2006 or something like that. With the generic driver, the Trackballworks programm no longer detects my mouse as one of their products. I guess I can only hope that they will repair their driver system in w10 or whatever.