My game just won't unpause! Please help!

[asa1997]

i read in the manual that i have to alt-tab out and in but this doesn't work, and i don't even know what newview is so i doubt im running it. any suggestions?

[Distiler]

Have you tried to hit the pause key? i can't recall alt-tabbing unpauses game.

[asa1997]

Have you tried to hit the pause key? i can't recall alt-tabbing unpauses game.

yeah, i tried pause, break, pause+break, it doesn't work

[Distiler]

Have you checked key assignements? maybe you changed it by mistake. If that is not the case, change it to another key and see if it works (maybe your pause key doesen't work).

[EtherealN]

yeah, i tried pause, break, pause+break, it doesn't work

 

Which keyboard do you have? Mine has pause and break on the same key and that works. It sounds like you have a keyboard where they are separate which is a bit odd, but... If you have another keyboard available (even temporarily) have you tried that?

[OJDee]

Couple of things to try, reassign keypress as mentioned above or, as was the case for me, check that the pause/break key isn't shared with scroll lock for example. I had to toggle the secondary function for my scroll lock un order for the pause/break to work.

 

Now I have just assigned scroll lock to pause instead !

 

Oli

[SSneg]

DCS:BS has a keyboard glitch: the keyboard simply stops working for short random periods of time, so this might be it. I blamed this behaviour on my radio keyboard at first, but it only appeared in DCS:BS and mostly with the pause function, yes.

[Hobnail]

Check the support forums, you'll see a few threads here and there about random kb dropout.

 

I get it, especially when I respawn in multiplayer. Usually (but not always) alt-tabbing "wakes" it up.

[asa1997]

Check the support forums, you'll see a few threads here and there about random kb dropout.

 

I get it, especially when I respawn in multiplayer. Usually (but not always) alt-tabbing "wakes" it up.

thanks for the help guys. btw im using a 2008 vista laptop

[sbk93036]

I have been using computers since the mid '80's and never realized there was a pause button-lol. It confused the hell out of me when I first fired up the game.

[Ramstein]

I have been using computers since the mid '80's and never realized there was a pause button-lol. It confused the hell out of me when I first fired up the game.

 

your drugs must be better than mine :lol:

[nemises]

heh...the pause button used to be used to halt scripts and batch files in DOS or any win16 shell.

 

doesn't get much use these days...

 

DCS..keeping obselete keystrokes alive since 2009!

[Tez]

asa1997 try reassigning pause key to pause function in the in-game options. The reason seems to be in a modified keycode returned by Pause key of your laptop's keyboard. Nowadays standards mean less or even nothing for some developers.

 

If one doesn't know what and when Pause/Break key does, it doesn't mean it's useless. It's an important key and won't be removed for a long time.

Edited April 21, 2009 by Tez

[Bazzab83]

I had the same problem with not being able to un-pause. To fix it i cleared keyboard profiles from both game and simulation mode and then reloaded them using the load profile option. Seemed to fix it for me. On my Laptop I have to use the "Fn" button to access pause. Maybe theis has something to do with it as well?

[EtherealN]

Another point, which holds true for DCS on the laptop I first ran DCS on: pressing only Pause doesn't work, since the pause key is hidden as a secondary key requiring that a special "fn" key (in my case found beside left alt) be pressed and held.

 

If pressed and held, it would work normally in DCS. (That laptop is an HP Pavilion dv9000.)

 

But as Tez said, standards don't mean anything to a lot of people making hardware out there, and the laptop industry is particularly hard hit by that. My Linux partition on that laptop forced me to go into some pretty arcane settings to force some reinterpretation of the keyboard signals because there was so much hardware stuff wired to special buttons that the Linux system didn't know what to make of - causing sound and all kinds of stuff to not work.

 

It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to manufacture your own laptops, just so there are SOME out there that conform to standards...

Edited April 22, 2009 by EtherealN
I used the g-word again... >.<

[nemises]

Same goes for any Microsoft "natural" series ergonomic keyboards ... the pause / break and scrllk key's are shared, and differentiated by using the "f-lock" key.

[USSR_Rik]

Anyway - user can reassign these 'problem' buttons, it works perfect.

Edited April 23, 2009 by USSR_Rik

[Erdogan]

Hi guys now I have the same problem. I can't unpause the game when it starts. I tried different buttons (pause-break) ( P ) and anothers without modifier. Only the ESC button response to me so I can't do anything. Any ideas for that ? Thanks....

[EtherealN]

Sounds like a keyboard software issue. Does your keyboard use special programming software (like the G15 and so on)?

[Erdogan]

I reinstalled the game now the keyboard is working ;) thanks...

[gostelow123]

Hi, everyone else seems to have fixed this issue but me. Game won't unpause when I start the sim. Have tried reinstall the game but that hasn't helped and when I try to reassign my keys I get the following error;

Error:

..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua:1095 attempt to index local 'layout' (a nil value)

Stack traceback;

 

->stack: ..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua in line 1905 in func:

collectReformers

->stack: ..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua in line 1887 in func:

collectAllReformers

->stack: ..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua in line 1842 in func:

validateLayout

->stack: ..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua in line 768 in func:

saveProfiles

->stack: ..\blackshark\modules\me_options.lua in line 1066 in func:

func

->stack: ..\luagui5\Widget.lua in line 266 in func:

->stack: .\BlackShark\BlackShark.lua in line 751 in func:

 

 

Have also added the comments line into the lua file but all to no avail.

 

This is proving very annoying as it's been running fine for ages.

Any help will be much appreciated.