Win 8.1, no mouse in the game panel

[Flyby]

Fired the old dog up for giggles and grins, but can't get my mouse to work so as to select missions, options, etc. Tried changing compatibility mode to Win7, but no joy. I had the sim working in Win 8.1 before, but it's been a while, and something must have changed somewhere. I checked Task Manager, and saw that there was no "not responding" notation next to it/ Need a little help.
thanks! Flyby out

[RPS69]

graphic card?

[Flyby]

GTX 770 2mb VRAM

[RPS69]

I am having similar problems on my notebook, but it is an AMD. The desktop becomes bigger than the screen, and the mouse disappears. It works fine when using a lower resolution. Still, when applying something like 1024x768, it reduces desktop size to the actual pixels, and on a 1920x1080 screen, that is like using a small centered square to play the game.

On 1920x1080, the mouse is unusable.
You may try to lower the resolution to see what happens. Maybe it is not an ATI problem but some late update that affects win 8.1. I still haven't found a solution.

[RPS69]

Well, I attacked it on the windows part, and I got success at least on my problem.

There is an option on:

SCREEN RESOLUTION
Make text and other items larger or smaller

Originally it just shows you a bar with a zoom level, that appears to be centered. If you select "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays", you will learn that it is set to 125%

Checking this and setting it to 100% solved my problem, and also allowed mouse use again.

[majorfailure]

Originally Posted by RPS69

Well, I attacked it on the windows part, and I got success at least on my problem.

There is an option on:

SCREEN RESOLUTION
Make text and other items larger or smaller

Originally it just shows you a bar with a zoom level, that appears to be centered. If you select "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays", you will learn that it is set to 125%

Checking this and setting it to 100% solved my problem, and also allowed mouse use again.

Make this post a sticky please! You just solved a problem that bugged me for hours, I always lost the mouse after updating.
That it is a screen res problem I maybe never would have found out - though it seemed suspicious that the game ran in 75% of the desktop res still filling the screen completely(But mouse initially working okay).

Thanks to you!

[Flyby]

I've come to believe that some MS win8.1 update is not compatible with this sim. Oddly, it worked flawlessly before. Then one day I fire it up (HSFX version first, then the stock version) after letting it sit for months, and suddenly no mouse. I tried a suggestion to chance the mouse setting in the {RTS] from 2 to 1, and that got the mouse working in HXFS, but only erratically. I could not select the item in the GUI I wanted; click "here", and another selection gets highlighted "there". I did discover that with this setting I could hit Escape, then Enter to exit the game. In the original version, no joy at all with that tweak. It's a shame, as I'd wanted to do some HyperLobby after a long spell away. I'll keep searching the nets. Surely someone has been there-done that (?).
Good luck!
Flyby out

[Flyby]

You have a solution you posted at the same time I posted my good luck reply. Where is this tweak you made?
thank you,
Flyby out

[Adwark]

Originally Posted by Flyby

Fired the old dog up for giggles and grins, but can't get my mouse to work so as to select missions, options, etc.

I has similar problem. I was reinstall Win 8.1 and when I run game, mouse freeze and not respond. I was deleting all game shortcuts from start screen and desktop, and make new, directly from program folder - problem solved. I has an nVidia GTX 580 with latest drivers and patches for Win 8.1 x64. Screen resolution 2560x1440.
Game version 4.13 with out mods.

[SturmovikPilot]

goto il2*.exe properties menu, compatibility tab and set (√ ) Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. I struggled with this issue until I somehow discovered this trick in Windows 8.1.