Suddenly unable to use keyboard commands

[psouthan 3]

Hello ,

 

I'm suddenly unable to use any of my keyboard commands , pause, view in and out, any of the commands set up up B = brakes etc. It just happened and for the life of me I can't get them to work. Any help greatly appreciated please.

 

Paul

[Twenty6 693]

Not enough information.

Simulator? What happened leading up to this?

Restore the "standard.xml" from your backup files.

[psouthan 3]

Hello,

 

Thank you for your reply. I'm using prepar3d 4.5 Windows 10 64bit. When I load the sim I am unable to use any keyboard input. For example I am usually able to press  the key P for park Ctrl shift to navigate between full screen mode and standard mode and use other predefined keyboard keys for a host of functions. F1 F2 etc but now , suddenly I can't use any of them, nothing happens when I press the keys on my keyboard (within Prepar3d).

 

I mucked about with DPI settings in the Nvidia control panel and I think this has messed things up! Now I am stuffed because being the jerk I am I can't recall what I did exactly . I did try reinstalling the driver but looks like looney here has really fooked it up this time.

Paul

Edited December 6, 2019 by psouthan

[FreeBird(Josh) 314]

Try plugging in a different keyboard.  I had this happen before for whatever reason I never figured it out. worth a try.

 

[psouthan 3]

Thanks I tried that, didn't work. Thank you for your reply.

 

Paul

[overspeed3 410]

Can you use the key board for anything else like a word processor?  If not, sometimes the USB receptacle  goes "bad", or is not recognized - try another USB port...

[micstatic 4,319]

every now and then this happens to me.  I simply restart the sim and it's back to normal

[psouthan 3]

Thank you all for your replies. I am able to use the keyboard for everything except the mapped key commands in Prepar3d. I have tried different ports but to no avail. I have also tried restarting a zillion times. It is sending me nuts (was probably there already).

 

Paul

[Orjan 0]

Just a shot in the dark, but it happened to me not long ago...

Could it be that your "keyboard input method" somehow has changed?

Like to a different input language? That seriously messed up my key mappings until I understood what happened..

Edited December 6, 2019 by Orjan

[simbol 5,819]

56 minutes ago, psouthan said:

Thank you all for your replies. I am able to use the keyboard for everything except the mapped key commands in Prepar3d. I have tried different ports but to no avail. I have also tried restarting a zillion times. It is sending me nuts (was probably there already).

 

Paul

Something has overridden the default keys..

Open the main menu of P3D, click controls, there is a button there that says, restore defaults..

Regards,
Simbol

[1st fltsimguy 466]

This may seem silly but I most often leave my c puter on all the time but then it goes to sleep, I wake it up and go about business.

However, every once in a while I have some issue or other, and sometimes keyboard....I just do a cold reboot and everytime things are fixed.

So, how about a cold reboot? I'm using Win7 Professional so don't know if that compares to Win10.

[psouthan 3]

Thank you again for all your replies. I resolved it! I had a corrupt Prepar3d.cfg. I deleted it and it is now fine again.

 

Thank you

 

Paul

Edited December 6, 2019 by psouthan