Keyboard issues
By
Back_Blast,
Posted on: 2010-05-06 13:42 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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It's a distinct possibility. Try a fresh game install and see if that doesn't help.
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Originally Posted by Diggis
edit: I just had a thought, I copied the game files across from another machine with a US keyboard, is that likely to have had an effect?
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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
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Problem there is a fresh game install will involve substantial new downloads, something I don't want to do on a capped account.|
Originally Posted by Back_Blast
It's a distinct possibility. Try a fresh game install and see if that doesn't help.
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Anyone know what files HAVE to be copied over?
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Um, all of them? I don't think the installer exactly gives you any choices as to what to download or not anyways. I suppose if you have an install disc of any sort you could install from there and then have the updater update you the rest of the way. But I'm a bit doubtful as to whether that would save you much, if anything. Beyond that, plead with Support and see if they can mail you an up to date 'i17 install disc' of some sort? Find a friend with less restrictive bandwidth you can 'borrow'?
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Originally Posted by Diggis
Problem there is a fresh game install will involve substantial new downloads, something I don't want to do on a capped account.
Anyone know what files HAVE to be copied over? |
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Yeah, thats kinda what i figured. The install discs are GvE and I think someone said thats current up to I6 or 7 
maybe if i just copy them over without overwriting any existing ones from the install the updater will sort the rest... worth a try.
Thanks for your advice.
Well the point of a fresh install is to remove all the old stuff and replace with new. What a partial overwrite would do, I've no idea. Something else you could try that I thought of is see if there are any ini files and if such files have a keyboard entry you can change. I'm not at my machine so I can't look to see if any exist, but that's the only 'easy' way I can think of to fix it.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Well, That didn't work. I'll have to try a fresh install at some other time. I'm also going to try snag a normal keyboard from work and check if that works. More of a pain that anything and once I learn what the keys do I can work around it for now I guess.
I have just bought a new machine and everything runs beautifully. However I have run into an error with my keyboard.
I noticed this when some of my binds didn't work as expected. When I went into keymapping I found some of the special character keys weren't being recognised and others weren't returning the right character.
Specifically when trying to enter [ as a keybind I get nothing
When trying to enter ] in I get [ and # gives me ]
\ also doesn't work and I didn't find a key that will give me it or #
I'm on a HP Pavillion Elite with Win 7 set to UK english with a UK english keyboard. When I use the game chat all the keys react as expected, it's only with relation to binding they seem borked.
The keyboard is an HP wireless one that came with the machine.
edit: I just had a thought, I copied the game files across from another machine with a US keyboard, is that likely to have had an effect?