A frustrating Ark Survival Ascended mouse not working bug is causing the cursor controls to freeze up. This glitch occurs after doing several actions like trying to open a container, going into the pet inventory menu to interact with dinosaurs, or interacting with the campfire. In fact, touching any sort of inventory seems to trigger this issue. Even fiddling around with the volume settings might cause an issue. The culprit seems to be the most recent patch for this Steam Early Access game, since the mouse controls worked fine before it. Fortunately, there’s more than one way to resolve this problem. Here’s how to fix a stuck mouse in Ark Survival Ascended for PC.
How to fix Ark Survival Ascended mouse not working bug
To get the mouse to work again in Ark Survival Ascended, you need can try one of the following two solutions:
- Reboot the game and reenter – It’s a huge hassle but one way to get around this is by quitting the game and entering it again to clear the issue. That said, this fix gets old fast.
- Bring up radial menu – If you hold down the ‘E’ button on the keyboard, this will bring up the radial menu. Exiting this without making any choice should free your mouse again.
- Hold middle mouse button – If your mouse has a middle mouse button or a wheel, you can hold it down and then drag around before hitting the right mouse button. This should also make the mouse return to normal
This seems to be quite a noticeable problem, so we expect that the developers will provide a hotfix sooner than later. The mouse was working perfectly before the patch so it shouldn’t take too long to work out what has gone wrong.
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