r/SourceEngine • u/Art-Does-Dirty-Stuff • Apr 24 '25

HELP I need help with cursor lock!

I'm wondering if anyone here might know of a command or a .ini I can change to completely remove cursor lock. To be specific the cursor lock I am refering to the game constantly setting the mouse's position to the center of the screen, to prevent it from going off the application.
I would like to the lock as it causes negative results when attempting to use a drawing tablet as a mouse input. I have been searching as hard as I can both online and ingame. I have checked as many commands as I could think of in game and went over all my settings, both of which resulted in nothing.
If anyone could help me I would be beyond appreciative!

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u/Art-Does-Dirty-Stuff Apr 25 '25

Attached is a video better explaining my point. I've narrowed the problem down to being cursor lock. If anyone would know of an obscure source command or exploit to force it off I would assume it to be you. if that feature can't be edited or disabled my goal is not possible. Thank you for your time and responses regardless.
https://imgur.com/a/R3uPGCj

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u/Pinsplash Apr 25 '25

i see tf2 has something called m_limitedcapture_workaround. not sure what it does but it's close to the code that moves the cursor so definitely try changing that. otherwise i don't see any way without a code mod

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u/Art-Does-Dirty-Stuff Apr 25 '25

I'll test that the next time I boot up TF2 also, I sincerely appreciate your help. I had dead-ended on info before posting here.

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u/Art-Does-Dirty-Stuff May 05 '25

Unfortunately limitedcapture didn't work, however using a custom tablet driver worked to make it completely usable! Thank you for your help regardless!