Input problems

Post » Tue May 29, 2012 10:49 pm

Ever since I started with Skyrim do I have problems with its user interface. Seeing that the game is now at version 1.4 and nothing has improved am I beginning to wonder if this is only happening on my side. What am I talking about? Examples:

- When I press 'F' and want to toggle the view (1st person vs. zoom view) does it often not get accepted. When a dragon attacks and I want to use the bow and try to switch into 1st person view do I sometimes have to press 'F' many times, and sometimes it will not work and I have to use the scroll wheel to zoom all the way in before I can use the bow.

- I try to draw a weapon by clicking the mouse button, but it will draw the weapon sometimes only after 3-4 mouse clicks - far too late.

- When I am in the inventory and try to click on 'MISC' will it sometimes close the inventory. This happens in shops, at containers and the alchemy table. Similar 'miss' clicks happen in NPC dialogues, too. A shop keeper will then not open his inventory but talk about the past or something even when my mouse is right on the line that says "What do you have for sale?". A few times did I had to abort a dialogue, reload the game and try again, because I was not able to select the right dialogue with an NPC.

- Because of these mouse issues do I often now only use the keyboard, but the mouse somehow still gets the input focus. I am assuming that a small vibration triggers the mouse and wherever I scrolled to with up- and down-keys becomes invalid.

There are more of such things, which all seem to be caused what I can only describe as an input problem - input from mouse and keyboard fight over one another and seems to have a low priority in some situations. My mouse and keyboard are clean by the way and they work just fine and as expect in other applications (web browser, office, etc.).

Is this an issue only I have or is this game related, and can it be fixed or will it get fixed?
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Brιonα Renae
 
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 8:21 pm

Works fine on my end. Have you verified the files and checked to make sure nothing is interfering with the input signals?
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Amber Hubbard
 
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Post » Wed May 30, 2012 3:20 am

Works fine on my end. Have you verified the files and checked to make sure nothing is interfering with the input signals?
Like I said, it works just fine with other software.
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 7:17 pm

I sometimes have similar problems; in certain areas i can't shout, like the "z" button isn't recognized.. but i also get this weird issue that when using a bow, holding the mouse button and releasing it, the bow doesn't shoot for like 1 second, the arrow shooting off is delayed so i miss enemies.. sry for the crappy description it's hard to explain.. it's like the shot itself is a bit later than the moment when i release the mouse button it's very annoying :/
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 5:12 pm

Ever since I started with Skyrim do I have problems with its user interface. Seeing that the game is now at version 1.4 and nothing has improved am I beginning to wonder if this is only happening on my side.


If you had provided system information, we could have eliminated a lot of potential vectors for those problems, but you chose to omit all of that, so answering is potentially a great deal more difficult.
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Post » Wed May 30, 2012 3:55 am

If you had provided system information, we could have eliminated a lot of potential vectors for those problems, but you chose to omit all of that, so answering is potentially a great deal more difficult.
I am looking for people who may have similar issues with the game. I can look into system issues myself and rather not have hunches thrown at me.
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