My mouse won't work

[gothlegend]

I have one of those new toshiba laptops, and it works great, but when i start GTASA, and come to the main menu i can move the cersor by my mouse or my touchpad, but i cant click on any thing, with either buttons, and once i start the game by using the enter key, , i can cj and can move him by the arow keys but i cant move the camera by moving the mouse, or shoot by either mouse buttons, i ve tryed every thing, i trued changing the mouse , and even tryed to format and reformat the laptop, but still nothing does any one have any idea what could be the problem, i have a Tecra M7 laptop and use a usb mouse

 

please, help is neede ergently, I HAVENT PLAYED SA FOR 2 WEEKS

 

IM DESPERATE

 

please help if you can

[killernago]

Hi, I had that same problem too. Change the compatibility mode to Windows 2000/ME, it should work fine after that.

[Justin]

ALT + TAB out of the game, and then back in again.

 

According to this topic in VC Troubleshooting, renaming the User Files folder, re-installing, and watching the opening movie fully seems to be a solution... It may well be applicable to SA as well.

[gothlegend]

thanks alot for the reply fuzy i will try is ant tell you soon

thanks for the help

[levbarg]

I had the same problem which has been frustrating me for weeks.

 

I searched the internet about a week ago and found the response that "Fuzzy Juzzy" refers to. On my rig (self built core2duo e6600, ATI x1900xtx 512mb, 2gb corsair ram, sound blaster audigy 4, logitech LX7 cordless optical) ALT+TAB caused the mouse button to work in the menus (temporarily), but in the game the camera did not respond to the mouse.

 

I called Rockstar tech support and they told me that this problem happens when you have other input devices installed (cameras, ir ports, etc.) and the game gets confused and doesn't know which one to look at. I unplugged all external devices, restarted the game, and it worked... for about 3 minutes. When I shut down and tried playing later, the problem came back-- menus were unresponsive to mouse clicks and the game was unresponsive to clicks and movement.

 

HOWEVER.... I found the solution, thanks to "Killernago"!

 

Killernago's response is exactly what fixed my problem-- just go into properties of "play GTA San Andreas", click on "compatibility" tab, and select Windows 98 / Windows Me.

 

Why Rockstar doesn't have this simple fix solution in their knowledge base, I'll never know.

 

Thanks again Killernago... you ended weeks of frustration for me.

 

P.S. I wonder if this is a compatibility issue exclusive to Logitech?

Edited February 12, 2007 by levbarg