mouse troubles

So in the last 48 hours, my game has become unplayable due to a weird mouse trouble. From the login screen onwards, every object requires a click to "select" the object and then a second click to "activate" the object. Menus, especially the side-scrolling buttons, are the worst.

The weird thing is that it didn't start concurrent with the last update, so I'm pretty baffled. And its not my mouse I would venture, since it happens with the trackpad as well.

I have a Macbook 2 Ghx Intel Core Duo. 4 GB of memory. Running most updated snow leopard.

Any ideas of what to try next?

Open System Preferences and go to Universal Access. Make sure all the features related to Mouse and Trackpad are turned OFF.

I have the same problem (or a very similar one) and following this recommendation has had no effect on it.

More specifically: mousing over things that normally react on mouseover (buttons changing size, enhancements in inventory showing their names, menus highlighting) does not have its effect. Clicking once causes the object to recognize that it has been moused over, clicking again causes it to treat it as an actual click. This has certain side effects: it renders dragging impossible (so powers or windows cannot be rearranged), it renders locational AoEs largely nonfunctional (due to the targeting reticule not registering mouse movement properly), and it makes mouse targeting nearly impossible. This effect turns on and off for reasons not clear to me.

I am playing on a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.5.8.

Follow the instructions in this post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...6&postcount=25

Whether it works or not, send a support request to help.ncsoft.com for tracking in case this is a larger issue.

Which instructions - the ones where I throw out my preferences (again), or the ones where I duplicate my test client (which also has the same problem)?

I mean, I don't mind throwing out my preferences again if it'll actually fix the bug, but I want to make sure I'm actually addressing the issue at hand.

Edit: I realize that sounds a little more snarky than I meant it. Basically I'm asking to make sure this is actually the advice you meant to give, since it seems to be aimed at an unrelated issue.

Both, actually. The Training Room client had a few small fixes not present in the Live client that, I guess, weren't significant enough to warrant a full publish to Live (it may be by now, I haven't tested that specifically), but that were causing some people issues.

I forgot the two most obvious questions though: 1. Running anything in the background? And 2. Do you have FSAA turned on?

Also one more test to try: While the mouse is messed up, try minimizing CoH (Cmd-Tab or Cmd-Return and move the window out of the way) and use the mouse in another application like Safari. Does it exhibit the same symptoms?

I turned off all the new graphics options; I had thought it might be that because the game decided to automatically turn on Shiny New Shadows as a default for "performance graphics", but even with them all turned off this happens. I am usually running other programs (I play in a window; fullscreening isn't really an option for me), but it doesn't seem to matter whether or not I am, or what I'm running. Other programs do not suffer the same problem when I go into their windows, and the problem persists when I return to CoH.

I think I may have rumbled it, actually. The thing that changed recently was the release (and my installation) of Steam for Macintosh. The Macintosh version of Steam demands Universal Access enabled for its Steam Overlay nonsense, and (the important bit) I'm not sure it actually lets go of it even if you don't enable it when Steam asks you to. Each time I've had this problem it's been during a session where I'd launched Steam earlier and hadn't restarted the computer since, because I'd been checking Steam for new sales fairly regularly. I don't know if restarting the computer is required to clear this up or what, but when I reset the computer and went into COH without launching Steam earlier in the session it ran without a problem (so far, at least).

I had a bit of a lull from playing COH for a while, so I didn't spot the possible correlation until I had time to think about it. Further testing will be required to confirm the correlation but it seems at least somewhat plausible to me. For bonus comedy value (or depressing value) one of the things being sold through Steam is COH. As I understand Steam, someone who downloads COH through Steam will have to launch Steam to run it, and Steam appears to be incompatible with COH. Good job fellows!

In that case I would contact both NCSoft Support (help.ncsoft.com) and Steam support, wherever they are. Since they have a partnership, somewhere in the middle, someone will figure out there's a problem.