Dino Might Posted July 3, 2018 Posted July 3, 2018 I've searched threads and believe this issue has already been discussed, but can't make heads or tails how my situation is similar/different. When I start DCS in VR, I can use the mouse normally, with the cursor not being affected by my head position, and I can interact with the menus, load missions, click stuff in the cockpit, no problemo. It works perfectly. But if I alt-tab at any point, the mouse loses focus from VR and will never regain it, even if I alt-tab back in. I have tried alt+C, win+Y, alt+Enter, and other "fixes" to get mouse focus on the HMD, but it only stays on the mirrored portion in the monitor. So, to use the mouse, I then have to take the HMD off, move it with my hand, and mouse on the monitor to click the radio dials or other cockpit controls I want to use. Everytime I am in the HMD and I click the mouse, it makes an annoying click sound and does nothing, not even showing a cursor. This is infuriating, because I want to be able to alt-tab in and out, and get back to the original mouse functionality in the HMD as when I start DCS in VR without having alt-tabbed at all. Is there something I am missing that is an easy fix to this problem? Or is the HMD UI just bonkers? I'm about to return to TIR and junk the HMD because of this.
Thick8 Posted July 3, 2018 Posted July 3, 2018 I don’t have full screen selected in game but I lift up the headset once I’m in the game and do Alt+Tab to DCS and then Alt+Enter to make it go full screen. This keeps the mouse focus in the game. Also, I lose mouse function after scrolling because my scroll wheel is also my middle mous button. So I have to double click the middle mouse button to get the mouse cursor back. All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
Dino Might Posted July 3, 2018 Author Posted July 3, 2018 No sooner did I post this did I find the answer on another forum. It's the stupid sensor in the HMD that is used to tell it whether you are wearing the device or not - this sensor toggles mouse control automatically. Placing a piece of opaque tape (I used part of a post-it note) over the sensor will render it inoperable (it's an optical sensor), and then you can manually activate the mouse and keyboard inputs with Win+Y and they won't go away anymore. Hope this helps others who, like me, were about to give up on VR.
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