First installed and the mouse wheel worked fine. Then shortly after it quit. I found some forums and followed the advice and got it working again. Now its stopped working again and nothing I do gets it to work. If I hold the + key and scroll it will zoom in but immediately zoom out once I let go of +.
Ensure you keyboard is clean, i.e. air duster. It might be the system thinks a key (e.g. ctrl) is being held down which changes the behavior of the scrool wheel.
check mouse properties in Windows
It may be that your mouse has a an unusual button that changes what the scrool wheel does. If you have an extra mouse laying around, try that to see if it does the same thing.
Depending on what brand/model of mouse you have, it may have its own config software, which you should look at for any oddities.
USB wired mouse. Brand new keyboard, mouse is about 5 months old, EVGA brand. The scroll works for all other functions in game like menus. The scroll also works in games like FSX, P3D, and DCS. Just not MSFS. The external scroll works now, but it wont hold the zoom once I release. Still no cockpit zoom.
I also developed this issue recently (SU9) My Camera Zoom was already manual.
Fustrated by this, I “bit the bullet”, and just reset all the Camera Options to DEFAULT.
That fixed it – back to normal where I can both zoom nd move about with the mouse.
(The move about and alter views was what really stopped working).
Now its FIXED, and “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it more” but now it Niggle me to wonder what changed – pretty sure it was not an intentional change by me.
well, updates are notorious for that. It becomes my own best practice that whenever there is a Sim Update being released, I go ahead and reset all settings to default and reconfigure things again. That’s how I usually avoid any problems before they happen.
Can you explain what you mean by all camera options? I already have the default mouse profile on and camera settings have been reset to default in the general options. Is there more somewhere?
No mouse software. Scroll works everywhere else. If I hold the + key on the keyboard and use the wheel it will zoom but once I let go of the + key it zooms back out. + key will not zoom by itself even though it is mapped default on the keyboard to zoom in. Cockpit view or external view.
Found the stupid issue. My throttle had a zoom functioned mapped to a slider and when the slider was at its neutral position it acted like it was actively zooming out. Erased and everything now works perfect. What a headache.