Issue with keyboard

[drsgfire]

Guys I'm having an issue where the last few keys on the right side of my keyboard are slid over. I know this will be hard to understand but for example in game when I press the "[" key it shows as "AT" in the configuration screen.

 

Other keys are as follows:

 

"]" shows as "["

"\" shows as "]"

"'" shows as ";"

 

The reason I found this was when I tried to rearm my aircraft and the lalt+' does nothing. I know this combination work because I tried binding it to my center command on trackir and it recognizes the command as Alt+'

 

This was tested in the A-10C and the F-15. Single player and multiplayer.

 

Also my lalt key does work with other keys. Pretty much the whole keyboard except for those mentioned. I just saw the post about Alt+C not working and I just confirmed that my Alt+C is working.

 

I did have to re-install windows this past weekend due to a failed HDD and this started happening after I copied and pasted all my DCS profile data to my new drive. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with that as this is not an issue in any other game or during regular windows usage. Is there an easy fix or am I going to have to wipe it all out and start over?

 

Thanks

Edited June 14, 2014 by drsgfire

[Flagrum]

what type of keyboard do you use, i.e. what country layout? US? UK? FR? etc.?

[drsgfire]

US. It's actually really really old :)

It a Microsoft wireless desktop keyboard from like 2001 or 2002. It's been a good one. I've tried to find where to specify what nationality the keyboard uses but like I said before, it only does this in dcs.

[Flagrum]

That is strange. DCS uses internally the US layout - which can be sort of confusing for users of other layouts. But it should fit perfectly for a US style layout...

 

The keys directly beneath the number keys (right hand side) should give

... I O P [ ]

and the next line

... J K L ; '

 

But for you this is only the case in other windows programs and in DCS it is different?

[drsgfire]

Yea. Windows and all other programs function normally. DCS is the only issue.

[drsgfire]

Alright so I deleted the entire saved games DCS folder so the game would recreate it and it is still doing the same thing. Anyone have any thoughts? Is there another generic layout file in the main program files?

[drsgfire]

I just re-installed the entire game into a new directory from the websites installer and cleared my old dcs folder from my saved games folder. Still not working. So, now I'm thinking that it must be something on my side with the keyboard. I'm going to try uninstalling my keyboard drivers completely and re-installing them. Hopefully that will yield positive results.

[drsgfire]

Hey all. Found the problem. When I re-installed windows my Logitech mouse installed a PS2 driver on top of my Microsoft PS2 driver and was causing the problems. I uninstalled all my keyboard drivers and just plugged my keyboard back in and it only installed the MS driver. I am happy again. It was just weird that it was only doing it in DCS though.

 

Cheers :)

[cichlidfan]

Glad you fixed the problem but that has to be one of the more unusual problems I have heard of.