Cursor gets stuck and fights against mouse movement when holding left-click in Topdown template

[anon23612153]

When I start my game from the main menu by clicking on “Start Game” after my level loads (using level streaming) and I hold left-click to move the cursor gets locked in place until I let go. If I launch my game straight from the persistent level then holding left-click works fine. It looks like something happens between the main menu and persistent level.

If I “Set Show Mouse Cursor” at the start of PersistentLevel’s BeginPlay to False in level blueprint, then it works fine. Another solution I found is to instead uncheck “Hide Cursor During Capture” in “Set Input Game and UI Mode” in MainMenu’s level blueprint.

Could anybody help me understand why the in-game cursor gets locked if I enable “Hide Cursor During Capture”?

Solution A: Set “Show Mouse Cursor” to False in BeginPlay in PersistenLevel’s level blueprint

Solution B: Uncheck “Hide Cursor During Capture” in “Set Input Game and UI Mode” in MainMenu’s level blueprint

[anon23612153]

I’ve been doing some research and testing, but still can’t explain to myself exactly why setting Hide Cursor During Capture to True causes in-game cursor to get stuck in place while I hold down left mouse button.

Is it because the game can’t find the cursor when I hold the left mouse button down and therefore uses the last known cursor position until I let go?

Hide Cursor During Capture set to False - cursor can be moved around while holding left mouse button down.

Hide Cursor During Capture set to True - cursor can’t be moved around while holding left mouse button down. You can barely see it but the green decal that follows the cursor jitters a bit because I’m moving my mouse around.