Player Freeze

(acQu) #1

Played the game today, then all of a sudden i freezed, could not use any of my keyboard (completely blocked, not even task manager shortcut was working, which is damn strange tbh, because that is close to windows hack or deep system integrity failure).

I see the game completely, other players see me also, i see kill messages, players can give me ammo packs, i can only use my mouse. But my whole keyboard is locked, which is similar like a freeze command.

No clue how was put in that state, but this is very strange to me. An app should never be able to cause such severe keyboard blackout. This never ever happened to me before.

(DB Genome editor) #2

I know it might sound silly, but any chance it’s a failure of your keyboard itself?

(acQu) #3

In case it was a failure, it is now working just as before.

I managed to get out of that freeze without restart in one of the following ways:

  1. i could press ESCAPE during warmup
  2. i could pull the plug and put it in and it was working again

Now for 2) I know it sounds like maybe there was the plug not in during that freeze and my replug caused it to work again, but this is wrong, because i have light keyboard, so when it is plugged in, there are lights on. And i had lights on during that freeze, so my keyboard had electricity. So stuff was in like it always was.

For 1) it is really strange that i could press something on my keyboard during warmup (for example escape and hit quit, but i wanted to wait and see if it is still there). When i was ingame again (after warmup), i was in freeze state again, which points to application code behaving not like one may expect.

(Seanza) #4

This has happened to me a couple of times. Then I realised I hit my chat key. Woops.

(acQu) #5

But i hit ESCAPE (should cancel chat, right?) or TaskManager-Shortcut (should interrupt app to go to windows process manager), but both did nothing …

My keyboard works very well at the moment :slight_smile: Just like it did before.

Pretty lul also: i reported a problem with passwords. Dude told me “basically” i am too stupid to remember my password, which i entered 3 years before almost every day :smiley: (it was a bug in their frontend mngmt.)

But okay, i had that situation also sometimes ^^ Weird stuff happens, sure maybe my windows is corrupted or something, will do a reinstall soon.