One way around it is through ALT-TAB. Get the mouse cursor on the menu item you want to click, ALT-TAB out of the game, then back in and quickly click on the button you are hovering over. With enough luck and speed, one of the clicks will go through before the menu gets stuck in the "beep loop" again.
Once you are in the game, it works fine, it's just the main menu that suffers from this. Even if you manage to open the options or the load menu, it works fine. Just make sure that if you know you are about to die, load the game before you actually do. Dying irreversibly boots you to the main menu and you'll have to deal with the main menu bug again.
Polling rate has nothing to do with it. Even as low as 125 doesn't fix it.
Post edited June 05, 2023 by idbeholdME