diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/loadingscreen.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/loadingscreen.cpp
index e41f2eec97..170fc3bc5f 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/loadingscreen.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/loadingscreen.cpp
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ namespace MWGui
 
             // always update input before rendering something, otherwise mygui goes crazy when something was entered in the frame before
             // (e.g. when using "coc" console command, it would enter an infinite loop and crash due to overflow)
-            MWBase::Environment::get().getInputManager()->update(0, true);
+            //MWBase::Environment::get().getInputManager()->update(0, true);
 
             Ogre::CompositorChain* chain = Ogre::CompositorManager::getSingleton().getCompositorChain(mWindow->getViewport(0));