Windows 10: Mouse cursor not locking in place in games

Hello! I have been having an odd problem revolving around my mouse not locking in the middle of the screen when playing games such as Minecraft and Roblox. The example I provided below is a video with Roblox's caps lock feature and zooming in to first person. When doing such, the cursor just moves around without being locked in place, which is the same problem I am currently having. It has been a problem for games that solely focuses on the first-person point of view. I only have one monitor, so I do not think it is a multiple-monitor problem. It is also up to date in terms of updates, so I

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Mouse cursor not locking in place in game.

Description:

I've been having a weird problem lately in the latest Windows 11 Insider Builds. The mouse cursor would not lock in place in games such as: Subnautica, Raft, Phasmophobia, and Roblox. The example I provided below is a video of me using Roblox's caps lock feature and zooming in to first person. When doing such, the cursor just moves around without being locked in place. It has been a problem for games that solely focuses on the first person point of view. I have two monitors, and the cursor often would go into the second monitor quite often.

Attempted commands / programs:

- Checked display settings to ensure that everything is configured correctly. (1920x1080 @ 60Hz)

- DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

- DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

- SFC /scannow

Example:



Current system build:

- System build: Windows 11 Insider Preview 25193.1000 22H2

- System model: HP Laptop 14-dq1xxx

- System version: 10.0.25193 Build 25193

 

Mouse cursor NOT locking on all microsoft games.

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Try these other fixes for mouse cursor not locking in place during games:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/show/241719/b...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...





Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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Mouse Cursor not locking in Games

Hello Jabron,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft Community and welcome to the windows 10 Family.

We appreciate the time and effort you have put in to resolve the issue. I would like to assist you with further information from here.

Sometimes with a multiple monitor setup when you move your mouse from left to right inside the game the mouse can leave the game and move to a different monitor. If while your mouse is on the other screen you click (thinking you are still in the game) it
can alt + tab you out of the game and in some cases crash it.

As an initial recommendation, I would suggest you to define a Keyboard Shortcut to Lock or Unlock Mouse Movements to the Monitor with Mouse Cursor. Once Mouse is Locked to one Monitor, you will not be able to move the Mouse Cursor to any other Monitor unless
you Unlock Mouse by pressing the Keyboard Shortcut again

Hope the above information was helpful. If you need further information, feel free to write to us and we would be happy to help you.

Thank You.