Horizons is unplayable due to mouse click and Keyboard inputs not registered. Green bands along right side and bottom of screen.

Banite

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When Odyssey released, the ED launcher required an update (I'm still on Horizons). At next launch the game came up with a green band on the right side and bottom of screen, and the image is terribly grainy/smudgy. Then I found that mouse clicks and all keyboard inputs are not being registered (no problems in any other games or applications), so the game is entirely unplayable. If I wait long enough a menu will load and the mouse tracks around the screen properly but doesn't register clicks. I also noticed that if I alt tab out and mouse over the program icon on the taskbar it previews in a smaller window which is attached to the top and left edges of the screen.

After scouring forum posts I got to thinking maybe this is a resolution or full screen issue. AppConfig.xml shows 1280x720 and full screen false but changing this had no effect (I'm not even sure this is the right file to be messing with). I'm not sure if there is another way to force the game to 1920x1080.

I also found posts about mouse click issues saying switch to OS cursor option, but can't get deep enough into the game to do that and can't find a config file that contains that option.

I've tried multiple re-installs at this point but they don't seem to change anything. I'm playing on Windows 10, i5 9600k, GTX1060.

I would be thankful for any tips or guidance as at this point the game is entirely inaccessible.

TIA.
 

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STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
try reading the lost bindings guide top[ of the sub forum and try the nb method after a back up of you current control config
is all I can suggest
 

Banite

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Thanks for the advice. I took a look at that thread and found that some reason I don't even have those files or file path. I'm missing the portion "Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings" from the path you gave (C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings). I tried uninstalling everything, and reinstalling but the file path doesn't look any different. Is it possible I've screwed something up with multiple install/uinstalls?
 

Banite

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Yes, I've been validating after each reinstall. Thanks for the tip.

After another uninstall/reinstall I managed to get the game running fullscreen and 1920x1080, but the green bands are still present. Not really sure what I did differently. The file path for keybindings has materialized and I tried the process described in the lost bindings guide but changing these files seems to have no affect at all. I tried switching from a PS2 keyboard to a USB keyboard in desperation, but no effect. Basically, now I can get to the main menu, see my ship, docking info etc. and the mouse tracks but no keyboard or mouse click. And a stupid thin green bar on right side and bottom of screen.

I noticed that in the KeyboardMouseOnly.binds file there is no secondary device bound to UI_Select, just the space key as primary. I added Mouse_1 as secondary (and changed the StartPreset.start to look for this file) but it had no effect. Does anyone know if this only pertains to in game or maybe in cockpit menus as opposed to the main menu? Looking through the stock keybindings, Mouse_1 isn't bound to anything other than firing and FSS functions, so the fact that the main menu doesn't work suggests to me it must be some other issue as I don't think the devs ever intended to not have the mouse work in menu.

Thanks and any other tips welcome.
 

Banite

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In case this helps anyone in the future, after days of reading forums and poking around various config files I solved the issue. I used the DisplaySettings.xml file to force the game into a different resolution (smaller than my native resolution) and also made it windowed. Started the game and it accepted inputs, reverted to correct display settings.

Thanks for everyone's help.
 

Banite

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Another update pushed today and the same problem occurred. Disabling full screen optimization through the windows compatibility properties for the EliteDangerous64.exe got the full screen looking correct(no green bands) but still no input accepted. This time messing around with DisplaySettings.xml is doing nothing at all to Elite Dangerous Horizons, but the single player combat training is responding to the changes. Seems like ED isn't looking at that file at all. I re-opened my ticket with Frontier Support. So frustrated. Any tips welcome.
 

Banite

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They were updated as of about a week ago when I had this problem for the first time and it had no effect. I just looked and it looks like Nvidia released an update yesterday, so I will update it again tonight. If that does nothing maybe I will try another uninstall/reinstall.
 

Banite

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Thanks for the input Ettanin. I don't do any capturing, so I don't purposely have anything like that running. Not sure if there are any that are baked into windows or ED that I could be checking to see if they are the problem.
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
Banite said:
Thanks for the advice. I took a look at that thread and found that some reason I don't even have those files or file path. I'm missing the portion "Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings" from the path you gave (C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings).
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is it possible you missed the part in my guide about hidden files and folders?
 

Banite

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No it's not that, I am seeing the hidden folders. I think that when I previously stated that the file path to the \bindings folder didn't exist it was because I had just reinstalled ED and hadn't yet installed the single player combat training. When I later installed the combat training it created the missing directories and put in the default files. I'm not sure about this, maybe I will be able to verify tonight when I uninstall/reinstall.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but what I think was/is happening is that the program EliteDangerous64.exe isn't referencing the location or files in C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics (ie. the DisplaySettings.xml where there is a fullscreen option). Despite this, the single player combat training program (I forget what it is, something like EliteDangerous32.exe) is referencing it.

What I've been trying to do is force ED into or out of full screen using the config settings in order to fix what seems to be a windowing issue because that is what seemed to fix it last time. Now, when I'm changing the DisplaySettings.xml file found in the \graphics folder, it is forcing changes to the combat training simluator program, but not to ED. I'm wondering if this really fixed the problem last time or it worked for some other fluke reason that I just don't understand.

Does anyone know the proper way of changing fullscreen setting through config files?
 

STRONTIUM DOG

STRONTIUM DOG
you don't have to install combat training for the directorys to be created they should be created upon hiting install in any version of the game
sounds like that combat training may be putting a spanner in the works as ed went 64 bit only way back and training missions can be accessed via the main game menu
 
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RLMcMurphy

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Banite said:
No it's not that, I am seeing the hidden folders. I think that when I previously stated that the file path to the \bindings folder didn't exist it was because I had just reinstalled ED and hadn't yet installed the single player combat training. When I later installed the combat training it created the missing directories and put in the default files. I'm not sure about this, maybe I will be able to verify tonight when I uninstall/reinstall.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but what I think was/is happening is that the program EliteDangerous64.exe isn't referencing the location or files in C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics (ie. the DisplaySettings.xml where there is a fullscreen option). Despite this, the single player combat training program (I forget what it is, something like EliteDangerous32.exe) is referencing it.

What I've been trying to do is force ED into or out of full screen using the config settings in order to fix what seems to be a windowing issue because that is what seemed to fix it last time. Now, when I'm changing the DisplaySettings.xml file found in the \graphics folder, it is forcing changes to the combat training simluator program, but not to ED. I'm wondering if this really fixed the problem last time or it worked for some other fluke reason that I just don't understand.

Does anyone know the proper way of changing fullscreen setting through config files?
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There are also 2 folders. Frontier Developments and Frontier_Developments
 

Banite

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Yes, I'm aware of the other folder.

I updated my Nvidia graphics driver again tonight and to my surprise it seems to have fixed it, although I'm really not convinced. I went from 466.47 to 466.63. I suspect that there isn't something screwy going on with ED because when it started up it was in the lower resolution that I was trying to force it to yesterday (using DisplaySettings.xml, found in C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics). For some reason today it took the resolution from that config file where yesterday it would not.

Big thanks to everyone for the help.
 

jim25

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Hi I found after last up date I was unable to deploy cargo scoop, all bindings set correctly landed and tried to deploy SRV to see if the cargo scoop was working but that wouldn't deploy ( the SRV)after much head scratching, file validating, 3 reinstalls found that they where switched off in the modules panel thank you Fdev for a complete was of 6 hours
 

Banite

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I've solved this issue, it ended up being an antivirus problem. (I was running Comodo free version.) I don't know what was actually triggering it, maybe it was somehow related to the updates changing the program slightly. I didn't identify it at first because after trying to launch ED and having it fail, I would shut down the antivirus to try again and it would still fail. It didn't actually work until I manually killed some of the leftover processes that were still running. After uninstalling the antivirus program I have had zero issues.
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
Just came across this thread today and a couple of years back I also had problems with Comodo and ED resulting in me uninstalling Comodo and as Windows Firewall and Defender were getting good reviews I decided to give them a chance and to be honest they both work a treat and are a lot easier to use than trying to figure out rules in Comodo every time you install something. I've never had any sort of virus or other infection since using them either.
 
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