How to hide The Cursor

Does this ever happen to you? Suffer no more!
Alt-tab to your heart's content.

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Though I've found that what specifically causes it is opening Steam Overlay at specific points causes the cursor to break.

I have been able to reliably reproduce this bug by spamming the steam overlay button when loading into the tutorial level. But I couldn't reproduce it at all by just spamming alt-tab.

upd: bringing up steam overlay and alt-tabbing with it still on breaks the cursor every time. So you can try to avoid doing that.

Get autohotkey

Download it here.[www.autohotkey.com]

Get the script

detectHiddenWindows, On
gui +hwndgHwnd
gui,show,hide w1 h1
winset,transparent,1,ahk_id %gHwnd%
gui +alwaysOnTop +toolWindow -caption +0x80000000
return

ScrollLock::
while(a_timeidlephysical>300000) ; 5-minutes
    sleep 100
tog:=!tog
if(tog){
    blockinput,mousemove
    dllcall("ShowCursor","uint",0)
    mousegetpos,mx,my,active
    gui +Owner%active%
    gui,show,x%mx% y%my% noactivate
} else {
    blockinput,mousemoveoff
    gui,cancel
    dllcall("ShowCursor","uint",1)
}
return

found here[www.autohotkey.com]


Create a new autohotkey script file on your desktop, right click and edit it as a text file, and paste the code from the post above.


The default hotkey to hide the cursor is scroll lock but it's customizable.

Paste the name ahk recognizes for any key you want in place of ScrollLock::

List can be accessed here[www.autohotkey.com]

Run to see if it works, then compile.

Enjoy!

Hope it helps.

Until crytek figures it out this will have to do.

[Islands]

Glad it helped.

[Sokop]

Hey, cool guide ! hoping 2.1.1 fixes this garbage bug, indeed this shall do until then