Loss of keyboard function in 3.2.7

posted on October 22nd, 2012, 9:45 pm

As the title says, I appear to have extremely limited keyboard function with this latest version of Fleet Ops. I can put ships into a fleet, but if I push a number key to pull up the fleet nothing happens. I can also push the "enter" key to bring up the option to type in cheats, messages, etc., but nothing happens when I try to type anything.

posted on October 23rd, 2012, 8:51 pm

Sorry for the double-post, but I've rolled back to 3.2.6 and my keyboard still is not working in-game for the functions I listed above. Can someone please help me?

posted on October 23rd, 2012, 8:57 pm

You mean you select one or more vessels, press ctrl+1, after that you try to press 1 to select that group, but nothing happens, and all commands seems to be non-functional?

Press any number you haven't bound to a group yet, and everything should work again.

posted on October 23rd, 2012, 9:01 pm

You mean you select one or more vessels, press ctrl+1, after that you try to press 1 to select that group, but nothing happens, and all commands seems to be non-functional?

Correct.

Press any number you haven't bound to a group yet, and everything should work again.

That didn't work.

posted on October 24th, 2012, 12:04 pm

Well, the bug i described is known one, and my answer was the common solution for it.
You describe pretty much the same behavior, but maybe it's something completely different, for whatever reason.

Just to make sure: does keybaord input work in general before you group a fleet?
And if you group a fleet, does this bug occur every time?
You really did press a random number, let's say "0", and not from the numblock?

Otherwise i'm out of ideas...

posted on October 24th, 2012, 5:36 pm

Only certain keyboard input works. I can push the enter key and see my name, but when I try to type something nothing happens. I place ships into groups like normal, but I can't select them by pushing their number key (I don't use the number pad). I did try pushing a number that wasn't attached to a group, but no luck. This is happening every time I play the game; every time I uninstall and reinstall; every version I install. It is also happening on both my laptop and my desktop. I have absolutely no clue what is wrong - it just started doing this. The only change I made was installing 3.2.7; before I installed that everything was working normally, now I can't even get 3.2.6 to work properly.

posted on October 24th, 2012, 7:15 pm

That's weird, I was going to say that your keyboard was at fault, but with several machines is another things. But I think it can be a faulty download (checksum the exe) or a virus in your machine. that's my 5 cents, sorry.

posted on October 24th, 2012, 7:34 pm

It could possibly be due to a graphics card issue: have you made sure that your primary graphics card is running FO, rather than an integrated secondary one (if that is what your computer has)?

posted on October 24th, 2012, 8:54 pm

I doubt it's the keyboard considering that I can still type outside of the game normally. My graphics card is configured properly - I haven't changed any settings in months and this problem only started recently. My anti-virus has come up clean. In Bridge Commander and Elite Force you can pull up the console and track problems that way; is there a similar thing with Armada/Fleet Ops that I can pull up and post?

posted on October 28th, 2012, 4:11 pm

Alright, I've figured out what the problem is and I thought I'd update this post for the benefit of all.

I recently installed a program called Zemana Anti-Logger, available from download.com. It's a freeware program that prevents people from logging your keyboard. Unfortunately, this program also has the unfortunate side-effect of disabling keyboard functions in Armada/Fleet Ops. So, if anyone has this or any other anti-logger programs installed, it will be necessary to disable them before playing Fleet Ops. I don't know if this was a known-issue before, but it is now.

Anyways. That's it. Problem solved. Thanks for everyone's help who posted.

posted on October 28th, 2012, 4:39 pm

Glad to see you figured it out Added to the FAQs