Mouse Hover/Hold right mouse for clickie not working

[NexusTK5]

So when I mouse over items in my inventory the name does not pop up anymore, and a probably related but much more serious issue is that I cannot click and hold on items to make clickies.

I have restarted the client, I have restarted my machine, I have tried shift+alt+R to release mouse cursor, nothing.

[NexusTK5]

I installed a new graphics driver, restarted the client/computer and that fixed the mouse over issue. I am still unable to use items in my inventory though as well as being unable to click and drag a hotkey for items.

[uygi]

This has happened to me before, more than once. It eventually goes away, but I don't know (and nobody I've ever talked to seems to know) exactly what causes it. It happened to me in February for like 2 weeks. Nothing seemed to make a difference, it went away again as mysteriously as it started.

[NexusTK5]

It is incredibly irritating. I just got my Guise and can't even use it.

[ewjax]

Has happened to me twice, reboot computer fixed it both times.

[rezzie]

2^31 milliseconds is 24.86 days (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E31+milliseconds+in+days).
EverQuest stores the result of GetTickCount() (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-gettickcount) in a signed 32-bit integer.
24.86 days after booting your PC this overflows and wraps around, going negative.

For some reason, it being negative stops item hover text from working. If you reboot it resets the counter and item hovers should reappear. Alternatively, wait another 24.86 days and it'll fix itself.

[Videri]

2^31 milliseconds is 24.86 days (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E31+milliseconds+in+days).
EverQuest stores the result of GetTickCount() (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-gettickcount) in a signed 32-bit integer.
24.86 days after booting your PC this overflows and wraps around, going negative.

For some reason, it being negative stops item hover text from working. If you reboot it resets the counter and item hovers should reappear. Alternatively, wait another 24.86 days and it'll fix itself.

Wow. That is amazing. You are amazing.

[NexusTK5]

2^31 milliseconds is 24.86 days (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E31+milliseconds+in+days).
EverQuest stores the result of GetTickCount() (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-gettickcount) in a signed 32-bit integer.
24.86 days after booting your PC this overflows and wraps around, going negative.

For some reason, it being negative stops item hover text from working. If you reboot it resets the counter and item hovers should reappear. Alternatively, wait another 24.86 days and it'll fix itself.


I mean I've rebooted my computer several times already. I said in my first post that rebooting was one of the measures I've taken.

[mcoy]

Make sure you don't have fast start-up enabled. That's not a "real" reboot:

https://lifehacker.com/enable-this-setting-to-make-windows-10-boot-up-faster-1743697169

-Mcoy

[NexusTK5]

Make sure you don't have fast start-up enabled. That's not a "real" reboot:

https://lifehacker.com/enable-this-setting-to-make-windows-10-boot-up-faster-1743697169

-Mcoy

Alrighty I'll try that next, thanks.

[Benanov]

Alrighty I'll try that next, thanks.

Could always 120 reset.

[NexusTK5]

So disabling fast start-up and rebooting using Shut Down and not Restart did not work either.

[Nitholias01]

you might have a windows update pending...that is the primary cause of the the hover over text not appearing for some strange reason

[NexusTK5]

you might have a windows update pending...that is the primary cause of the the hover over text not appearing for some strange reason

Hover over text isn't broken anymore, but the drag and drop to make clickies is.

[reznor_]

Pending windows update was always the source of the broken mouseover for me. I'd check that. Mine isn't working today, I check for windows updates and lo and behold my computer is working to install it.

EDIT: After windows update, mouseover works again.

[NexusTK5]

Update is that I still can't drag and drop items to make clickies. Rebooted dozens of times, did a 120 reset, no Windows Updates, disabled fast start-up, everything suggested.

[mcoy]

You aren't actually dragging and dropping right? You have to hold the click down until the button attaches to your cursor and then put it where you want it in your hotbar.

-Mcoy

[NexusTK5]

You aren't actually dragging and dropping right? You have to hold the click down until the button attaches to your cursor and then put it where you want it in your hotbar.

-Mcoy

Yes I am holding it down to make the shortcut button, nothing.

[NexusTK5]

This is still an ongoing problem. I have tried every single suggestion in here along with some other ones mutiple times. To clarify the mouse over to see item text issue is no longer an issue. I still cannot create clickies by holding down left click and dragging it to a hotbutton. I'm not ready for raiding and will have to play unable to use any of the required clickies made mandatory by any raiding guild.