Hi all,
I'm having an odd problem in EQ which nobody I've asked is having.
I am unable to type a number of characters when within EQ. The =, ', and ~ key will not produce any text when I push that key. I thought this was normal until my friend used some of those keys.
I am using a regualr usb full size keyboard which works fine everywhere else. I have the font set to Arial presently. I thought it might have been configured to think I had a compact keyboard, but can find no option to check that. I have checked for conflicts of key assignments as well and have had nothing out of the ordinary there as well.
If anyone has any ideas or things I can try, please let me know, I'd really appreciate it.
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I have this problem on my laptop...I just assumed it was the way the keyboard was set up. Does the "~" key still select the nearest mob for you?
Yes, it works for that, just produces no text.
That's the way it is when I play on my laptop. Don't know where to go to change it though. If you find out please let me know.
Only time I ever had a similar problem, when I installed accessibility option in windows and it made some keys not work. Never figured out how to fix it, 'cause turning it off never put it back, and ended up re-installing windows from scratch to fix it.
I'd think the problem might be there or in the keyboard driver.
Maybe this might give some directions to look into.
Yther Ore.
I'd think the problem might be there or in the keyboard driver.
Maybe this might give some directions to look into.
Yther Ore.
It's a language issue; if your computer settings and your keyboard layout doesn't follow the US standard, you have to type what you want in, say, Word, copy the whole thing and paste it into a chat window (to paste from the clipboard inside EQ, use Ctrl+K, of course 8-)).
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It's a language issue; if your computer settings and your keyboard layout doesn't follow the US standard
Any places in particular you can point out on where to check? To my knowledge all of my settings should be standard English and my keyboard is a typical QWERTY usb keyboard.
No accessability option programs running as well.
I tried copying in text from notepad using the letters that don't normally work and that worked fine. I'm kind of at a loss on where to look atm :/
If I ever find out why, I'll definately post back and let you know what it was in my case.
Thank you for your replies :)
FIXED 
In Vista:
Start > Control Panel > Keyboard
Opens up a window: Keyboard Properties
Click on the Hardware tab.
In the Devices window there, I had a number of keyboards listed. The top few were Microsoft wireless keyboard and a couple of other Microsoft keyboards.
I am using a pretty standard Deck keyboard that only requires the standard "HID Keyboard Device" that regular usb keyboards use.
I did the following for *each* of the drivers listed that I did not need:
1. Highlight the name of the Driver in the "Devices:" window.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click Change Settings.
4. Click the Driver tab.
5. Click Uninstall.
Once I removed the three keyboard drivers that were not needed, I started EQ and they keys worked perfectly! :D
Big thanks to Rundle for his many suggestions and to everyone who replied here. Hopefully this will help the other people having the same problem. :)
In Vista:
Start > Control Panel > Keyboard
Opens up a window: Keyboard Properties
Click on the Hardware tab.
In the Devices window there, I had a number of keyboards listed. The top few were Microsoft wireless keyboard and a couple of other Microsoft keyboards.
I am using a pretty standard Deck keyboard that only requires the standard "HID Keyboard Device" that regular usb keyboards use.
I did the following for *each* of the drivers listed that I did not need:
1. Highlight the name of the Driver in the "Devices:" window.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click Change Settings.
4. Click the Driver tab.
5. Click Uninstall.
Once I removed the three keyboard drivers that were not needed, I started EQ and they keys worked perfectly! :D
Big thanks to Rundle for his many suggestions and to everyone who replied here. Hopefully this will help the other people having the same problem. :)
Glad I could help.
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Woot! Thanks for that. Now I can use my laptop right!
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