Windows 10, Games, and Synergy

[Robin Watts]

Hi all. I've been running synergy 1.7.6 happily on my Windows 10 PC for the past month or so, in the foreground as an app. In this time games etc have worked fine. I rebooted yesterday for Windows Update, and synergy started in the background as a service. From that point on, I got really strange results in games. For example: Elder Scrolls Online: The mouse worked fine in menus etc, but in the actual game, I ended up spinning on the spot. It was as if the mouse was failing to be centred again after each movement had been detected. Black Mesa: As for E.S.O. Batman: Arkham Knight: Mouse works fine. Keyboard works fine, except for W, A, S, D in the actual game. So I couldn't actually move. Kill off the Synergy process, and everything worked fine again. I'm happy to live with having to kill off the synergy process as a workaround, but it'd be much nicer if I didn't have to. I mention it here in the hopes that it might save others the hours of frustration that I endured trying to figure out what was wrong! Robin