Merkaba48 on 13/12/2006 at 10:35
Hello! Wow, my forum account still exists :D
I recently had the pleasure of coming across System Shock 1 (I am a HUGE Thief fan and have wanted to play SS1 & 2 for a long time), and I have the game running with no problems EXCEPT:
Every once in a while, that is, every 10 minutes or so, one of my keys will 'stick' and I'll find myself turning around in circles, constantly running forward, etc. The only way I can fix it is by waiting and sometimes it randomly stops, or else quitting the game and starting it up again. This isn't a hardware problem - my keyboard is fine. It's purely SS or DOS or something.
I am running Win XP, and I have followed the sticky thread up top about getting it to run (which worked perfectly!).
Does anyone know if there is anything I can do? I really want to play this game, but I'm not prepared to put up with a posessed character for the duration.
Drat on 13/12/2006 at 10:45
Try hitting the relevant key. That should clear it in most cases.
Merkaba48 on 13/12/2006 at 10:49
I've tried that, many times and with a variety of frustrated faces :)
C0rtexReaver on 13/12/2006 at 15:31
Go into XP's accessibility control panel and make sure you don't have something turned on that you don't want. I think XP turns on some kind of annoying feature if you hold down shift for too long or some such. That "feature" can be disabled.
-CR
Nameless Voice on 13/12/2006 at 15:38
He's talking about keys sticking in the game, not that annoying StickyKeys feature.
If this happens, you can usually fix it by:
* Pressing the exacty keyboard combination that got stuck. For example, if you were crawl-walking forwards, you'd have to press crouch and walk and forwards together to unstick this action.
* Go to the console (shift+;) and then just hit esc or return (don't type anything in). This usually fixes it.
Bjossi on 13/12/2006 at 15:44
I experienced this quite a few times at first but then it went away all of a sudden. Which of course ain't a bad thing...:o
C0rtexReaver on 13/12/2006 at 15:54
Sounds to me like he just needs to sit further back when he's surfing pr0n.
-CR
D'Arcy on 13/12/2006 at 21:48
When that sort of thing happens to me, usually hitting the opposite key solves it.
