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Greetings, visitor.
This is Snake from SnakeByte Studios. I thought it was about time that I did a
video tutorial for my Cursor Lock program. So let’s just jump right into this.
At SnakeByteStudios.com, find Cursor Lock, go to the downloads tab, and
download the latest version.
Run the installer.
It’s a simple install process with a few typical options you might want to change.
When it’s finished, Cursor Lock will run automatically.
Let’s look at the Cursor Lock interface a little bit so we can get an overview of
what some of the options are.
Most of the time you’ll be using the shortcut tab to create a shortcut to your
program that uses Cursor Lock. In the other tabs you’ll also find options for
hotkeys—I’ll just change some of these now.
Default settings that will change how Cursor Lock always functions, like
disabling the default log.
And in the About tab, you’ll find the version info and a few links, including the
help documentation.
For anything not covered in this tutorial, please check the documentation. For
anything not covered in the documentation or the tooltips, feel free to
email me. I don’t mind taking a few support or feature requests.
Let’s go back to the shortcut tab.
There are four different shortcut modes you can use. Program shortcuts are the
most straightforward—you run cursor lock when needed for a certain program.
The two "user" modes are for people that want cursor lock always open so they can
control the locking manually using the hotkeys. And Unlock mode is just for
emergencies, you’ll probably never need it.
Since most people are going to use program mode, we’ll look at that in more
detail. The options for program mode are separated into two groups. One for
program options like the path to the executable and program arguments. The
other is for standard options which override the options in the default tab.
Let’s look at an example use of Cursor Lock. Obviously, most people use it to fix
video games on multimonitor systems, so we’ll look at Grand Theft Auto 3 as our
example.
Quite quickly, it becomes obvious that the mouse cursor has drifted out of the
primary monitor. And if I click to attack a hobo or whatever, it will have the
unwanted result of minimizing the game.
Fixing a game like GTA3 is really simple with Cursor Lock; you just check the box
for Open Program and then find the executable for the game.
Click Create Shortcut to make a permanent shortcut to the game with
Cursor Lock applied.
Run that shortcut.
GTA3 is now playable again.
Some games are a bit more difficult to set up because they use a launcher program.
Steam works in this way.
Let’s look at a Steam game which lacks multimonitor support, The Witcher.
As you can see, it’s hard to pan the camera because the mouse can go past
the edge of the screen. And you still have the hazard of clicking outside the game
window.
Now back to Cursor Lock. As I said, this game uses a launcher program, Steam, so
there are a few more steps to take to get it to open right and then lock the cursor
right. First, go to Open Program and find your steam executable.
It’s usually under C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam.
Now check the Lock Program box and find your main game executable—in this
case witcher.exe.
Steam games are usually under Steam Apps\Common from the Steam directory.
If you can’t find it, you can open Task Manager on your secondary monitor to
find the executable name and then do a search for that.
The last thing we have to do is find the App ID of the game in question. There are
a few ways to do this, but the most simple is to select your game in Steam and then
use the link to visit the store page. In the URL bar, the 5-digit number at the end of
the URL is the App ID. Copy it. Go back to Cursor Lock and type in the Program
Args: -applaunch, space, and then paste the App ID.
Create the shortcut and enjoy.