Vista and BZ2 problems

[Dataanti]

i cant even rotate buildings

[Dataanti]

its not the key board i tried a normal key board and it was the same, i think it is 64 bit OS that is the problem

[Commando]

Yeah, my brother's computer has the same issue.  He has the 32 bit version of Vista, but he has a tv receiver in his comp that allows him to watch television on his comp.  I believe it is that capability that bz2 doesn't like.  No matter what keyboard you plug in, bz2 will not recognize the ~ key.

[Dataanti]

the F10 key works in patches 1.2 and down

~ key doesnt work i any and i tried putting it a Z and it did nothing, i also cant rotate buildings, and split groups

it is not the keyboard layout cause i tried a ton and it doesnt do any thing, a new keyboard wont do anything, i installed MS keyboard layout maker and made my own and that didnt work either

I think it has to do with 64 bit OS's, is there any other thinks that might help

[Dataanti]

Yeah, my brother's computer has the same issue.  He has the 32 bit version of Vista, but he has a tv receiver in his comp that allows him to watch television on his comp.  I believe it is that capability that bz2 doesn't like.  No matter what keyboard you plug in, bz2 will not recognize the ~ key.

I tried my old PC keyboard and it did nothing, I don't a TV receiver on my laptop but it can hook up to the TV if u want to play on a bigger screen. I think it might have to do with vista and hot keys that laptops have because they take away buttons on keyboards to make it fit. I can't find the hot keys options tho, and that wouldn't make seance for the F10 key problem cause it works in all versions except for 1.3 versions so the F10 key problem is a change in the 1.3 patches.

[AHadley]

Lol, I'm so glad my TV has a VGA port on it 

[Commando]

My brother's PC is not a laptop and it has the same issue.  I doubt the keyboard has anything to do with the ~ key not working in bz2.

[Zero Angel]

Confirmed.

Have set my locale to English (US), keyboard layout to US, and am using a generic external keyboard. The problems still persist.

As I mentioned before, i'm running a laptop with Vista 64-bit.

[GSH]

One point: although the UI shows ~, that's wrong. BZ2 looks for the ` (grave, == backtick) keystroke. ~ is more obvious as to what key it is, for a standard US-English-104key keyboard. But, on said keyboard, to type a ~, you need to hit shift-grave. BZ2 doesn't require the shift action, which would be needed if it actually was ~. It's not. It's `.

-- GSH

[Nielk1]

Somehow I knew SOMEONE was gan'na point that out...

[jack_soundcraft]

we are having some of the same type of problems using mac computers  f1 to f10 . not finished yet . going to try other things.

[Dataanti]

I think BZ2 needs a keyboard up-date to the newer keyboards, or a DL fix if you have the problem u DL and extract.

[GSH]

BZ2 patches are released when I want, with the contents that I want. There's no guarantees that any future patches to BZ2 will ever be delivered. I'd say that there are plenty of other bugs that are more important than this, and that you should be complaining to MS, because this is a compatability issue caused by updates on their end.. Just like nVidia should be whined to because their latest cards break DX6.

Also, while I was given a free copy of Vista Ultimate (32-bit) a year ago by MS, I've never bothered to install it. That should tell you what I think of that OS.

-- GSH

[Dataanti]

that solves the ` key problem but still not the F10 key problem, F10 key problem only happens in the 1.3 patches so i know its not update related, its 1.3 patch related

[Zero Angel]

Anyone else having problems with the "teamchat" hotkey? AKA the single/double quotation key?