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BiK - Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:21 pm
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Everytime i press both forward key, fire key and left key <--; My ship just stops from doing anything and floats until i release one of them, do i have to buy a new one? can i fix it in ANYWAY? is a new keyboard (new model that is) will certianlly not have this bug?

HELP ME!

Qndre - Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:40 pm
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On my SECOND computer (not on the one I usually use for playing) I've got nearly the same problem. That sucks if I want to have a lan party. The keyboard (not the keyboard-controller because that's the same in both PCs) only takes two keys at one time. So if I'm pressing "up"-arrow and "left"-arrow then I can't start fireing. If I'm pressing "up"-arrow and CTRL then I can't move left. That sucks because in online games it's necessary to do so.

numpf - Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:58 pm
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There are several background processes that did this to me... the first one that comes to mind is the old RC5 client. I doubt it's a problem with your keyboard unless you bought the cheapest POS available. PC keyboards are required to recognize any pair of keys (though they are, unfortunately, allowed to ignore the third of any triad of keys except a few specific ones involving ctrl shift and alt).

Have you tried a different keyboard? Have you tried remapping the movement buttons to different keys? Try both of those first. If they dont work, try eliminating background processes.

-numpf

Cyan~Fire - Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:08 pm
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My computer also has always had trouble with pressing the left key in a combination. I don't know if you can help it :-/

D1st0rt - Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:25 pm
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my right arrow key is dominant over the left one

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:08 pm
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Ever look at the circuitry of a keyboard? Its a matrix, and with that, you cannot press every combination. Another problem, even if the board circuitry allows it, the PS/2 port won't. USB fixes that.

BiK - Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:00 am
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So i need to buy a USB kb?

Qndre - Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:29 am
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

Ever look at the circuitry of a keyboard? Its a matrix, and with that, you cannot press every combination. Another problem, even if the board circuitry allows it, the PS/2 port won't. USB fixes that.

I've got a PS/2 keyboard. This only works on XP but I can press up to 5 keys together and the software gets them all.

SuSE - Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:55 am
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BiK wrote:

So i need to buy a USB kb?

you need to buy a keyboard that doesn't suck

go to a computer store

try out a bunch of keyboards - buy the one that sucks the least

BiK - Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:08 am
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Akai wrote:

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you need to buy a keyboard that doesn't suck

go to a computer store

try out a bunch of keyboards - buy the one that sucks the least

How do i rate suckiness?
and how does it realate to the movement error?

SuSE - Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:00 pm
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hold down forward, fire and left/right keys simultaneously and see if they all function

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:44 pm
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Qndre wrote:

I've got a PS/2 keyboard. This only works on XP but I can press up to 5 keys together and the software gets them all.

Which buttons? Crtl, Shift, and Alt are usually on their one little lines, so they can combined with everything else. Things like letters are not, since you shouldn't need to be hitting twenty letters at a time.

Smong - Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:12 am
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Akai wrote:

hold down forward, fire and left/right keys simultaneously and see if they all function

So you are supposed to walk into a computer store and install SS on all the machines? Someone should make a small program so you can test this without installing a whole game.

SuSE - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:00 pm
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there is probably a way of finding out particular keyboard specs of those that will and will not work