Nothing clickable in cockpit

[tommytank]

Guys, think I may have changed a default or deleted a mouse assignment? Once I'm in cockpit, I can't click on anything - even the 'fly' button on the briefing or the menu options in the pause window.

 

The cursor moves over the screen, but doesn't let me click anything, left or right buttons. It was working fine yesterday; all I think I changed was putting a zoom axis on my Warthog Slider.

 

Tried two mice, and they both work fine in the DCS menu and in windows, but not once I'm in the cockpit.

[RazorbackNL]

Once you are in the cockpit, do you see the yellow mouse cursor? Is your cockpit view movable with the mouse? Try double clicking the middle mouse button and see what happens.

[tommytank]

I have a yellow mouse cursor (cross). double clicking the scrollwheel makes it mouse look. Double-clicking again turns it back to a cursor; but can't left or right-click on anything, even the pause menu options!

[RazorbackNL]

Did you try to use the repair function? First uninstall all your mods if you use any. If the repair doesn't work you could try to completely delete your input config files. They are located at your c:\users\[user name]\saved games\dcs\config\input\[module name]. Make a backup of these first to be sure. DCS World will create new default input files when you restart the program.

[tommytank]

Thanks Razorback; I'll try that.

 

I have changed joysticks about three times since I did the install, so would be good to revert anyway.

 

I've got no other mods installed and all input devices so far has been plug & play - joystick, throttle, pedals and trackir.

[Tone71]

Do you have any bands set up on your joystick axes that represent button presses? If the slider is within this band it'll often interfere with mouse/keyboard button presses. You could also try going into the controls menu to see if any buttons are stuck down (the commands list will jump to that button assignment).

[tommytank]

thanks guys, these steps didn't fix it but I have now solved it. It was something to do with monitor/display setup because when I hovered over the mouse over the far right of the display (outside the cockpit), it flags up the APU fire T handle. Looks like the cursor was out-of-sync with the display. Disabled full screen (which I didn't know I'd enabled), it's sorted and got me a clean controller install to boot!

Edited December 2, 2014 by tommytank

[RazorbackNL]

I am glad you worked it out. Weird though that you can't use full screen. I use it all the time and it doesn't have any effect on the mouse behaviour. Do you have a multi screen setup?