Weird problem with the mouse...

Eyeoftiger

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For the most part, this game has been stable for me. A few crashes that should be fixed eventually, but it's only happened twice.

A much more annoying problem has been occuring for me during the game. When you use your mouse to "mouse-over" an item to build in a city (after something else just got completed) or to select a new tech, a small pop-up comes up saying what this build will do or what this tech will give you, and then of course you can click to select and keep playing. Mousing over leader pictures during diplomacy also gives you the +'s and -'s of how they feel towards you.

About every 5 turns or so, the mouse over ability goes away completely. It eventually comes back on its own, but usually around 15 turns later. One way that I found I can get it back immediately is to ALT-TAB out of the game and get right back in. Obviously I don't want to keep doing THAT.

A side effect to this mouse problem is that when the mouse-over doesn't work, the wheel scroll also doesn't work. When mouse-over comes back online, wheel scroll works fine again.

Anyone seeing this?
 
Same problem here: the tooltips/mouse-over effects disappear and return in approximately the pattern you described. The mouse wheel won't work then, either. Neither will the F6 key open the TechTree in that case while the icon still works. Do you experience that as well?

Hope this will be fixed soon. Thanks for your ALT-TAB workaround!
 
The alt-tab trick also reduces some lag. I suspect this has to do with video memory that is getting leaked and/or corrupted.

Closing and restarting the game is the only sure-fire fix for that.
 
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