UP and LEFT keys sporadically not working

[w00ks]

Hello, I’m having some trouble getting my UP and LEFT keys to reliably work in the game. Sometimes they just have no feedback when I press them, and sometimes they work as expected. It almost seems like sometimes they get “cached” and then execute quickly all at once. I dunno. My numpad keys do work however, and this would be fine, except some menus only navigate with the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT keys. It also doesn’t seem to produce any error messages.

If anyone has any Ideas I’m up for trying them. I have already tried getting a new copy of the game, new world, new char, cleaning my keys, making sure they work in other programs.

build:
Win 10 Home x64
Intel i7-4510
8gb RAM

Thanks,

[Rose]

Just in case, are you sure it’s not your keyboard itself that’s malfunctioning?

[w00ks]

I’m pretty sure, it doesn’t seem to happen anywhere except in Cata.

[TheMurderUnicorn]

Do you possibly have a gamepad connected to your computer? When I plug in my xbox controller my mouse and several keys stop working for no obvious reason.

[w00ks]

Its a touch screen laptop, so I suppose you could consider that an alternative input. But I never have trouble with it, my trackpad, or my wireless mouse with any other program.

[TheMurderUnicorn]

Yeah, it’s probably not that, then. I specifically asked thinking it might be a USB related issue (because mine is). That wouldn’t be the case with a laptop, I’d think.

[Vormithrax]

Most issues like this are resolved by running the game in borderless window mode instead of fullscreen. The fullscreen choice has various odd issues with menu’s and key-presses not working properly. Try switching to borderless window mode for the full screen choice in the options menu.