Dual monitor, restrict cursor

**vyyye** · March 20, 2011, 10:36 AM

Is there any workaround for this stupid problem that has plagued TW in pretty much every installment? Thought it would be fixed by now for sure but nope, and turning off one monitor every time I want to play TW feels eh.

Any 3rd party tools, anything?

**shibbieNIS** · March 21, 2011, 07:47 AM

What is your problem exactly?

If you have a laptop I'm pretty sure you can set the trackpad to fit one screen and the mouse to operate solely on the other - but then again I don't know what issue you're having here.

**Cathal** · March 21, 2011, 10:04 AM

The problem is when you have dual monitors, the cursor is not being restricted so you can turn the camera in the game without it going into the other monitor. He wants the cursor to be restricted to the monitor with the game without having to disable the second monitor.

**vyyye** · March 21, 2011, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Cathal

The problem is when you have dual monitors, the cursor is not being restricted so you can turn the camera in the game without it going into the other monitor. He wants the cursor to be restricted to the monitor with the game without having to disable the second monitor.

Correct. I managed to find a solution, might as well post it as I'd imagine there's more than one person who's run into this. Basically what I did was download Cursor Lock and set it up for Shogun 2, never used this before but it has been working..more or less.. fine so far (played for about 8h).

http://download.cnet.com/Cursor-Lock...-10767852.html

And here's a guide to making it work with Steam games:
http://www.snakebytestudios.com/blog.php?id=392

Encountered two issues, though I'm not sure if it's the Cursor Lock causing it or if it's just Shogun 2 not being perfectly stable yet.

1: Had one crash when alt tabbing back and my cursor touched the edge of the screen. Kept it in the middle since and had about 6-7 successful alt tabs since. Guess it might just be a Shogun crash, but eh, worth keeping in mind.

2: Delay when edge scrolling on the campaign map. On the battle map it works perfectly but if I edge scroll on the campaign map it takes about 1-2s before it actually starts moving the screen. No idea if that's a native feature or not but I'd imagine it isn't.

Got used to WASD moving on the campaign map, hell, it definitely beats having to turn a monitor off and have all my shortcuts go haywire.