Unreal launcher locks cursor when updating

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I’ve noticed this during the last couple of updates of the unreal launcher, including the one this morning that (I think) shut down the marketplace. For a period of about 30 to 60 seconds I will find my cursor locked in position. I can alt-tab, control-alt-del and type fine, assuming the focus is on a text box. Clicking appears to work, assuming the cursor is over something click-able. But the cursor won’t move. Once the update completes, the cursor is free and I can move it anywhere on the screen.

For reference, my computer is an MSI GT70 2 PC Dominator laptop with a Synaptics trackpage running Windows 8.1

Update: Just started the launcher and received the new update that added the learn tab and updated the market. I didn’t noticed any cursor lock this time. Could it be when the Launcher is running and a change is pushed to the Launcher that the cursor is locked at some point during the update process. Is there a way to test this?

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Hi jCoder,

Thanks for the feedback. I am going to get with our Launcher team and see if there is a good way to test this. We’ll post back here as soon as we have something.

Cheers,

TJ

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Hi jCoder,

We had several people test this with the latest update this afternoon and we can’t get your results. Since it is now working for you, we are going to mark this post as resolved for tracking purposes. If the issue pops up again, please post back here and let us know.

Cheers,

TJ