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Messes keyboard up a little...


I've been having a problem since installing the Deimos client on Win7 Prof, 64 bit:

Some special characters / keys don't work anymore, or work weird...

If I type a pipe (|) I'll get |´
I can't enter backquotes anymore.
I can't enter accents anymore, like é

It seems to me that Deimos should sniff the keyboard input and then ALWAYS pass it on, WITHOUT interfering with it... This is a serious problem.

Has anyone else experienced these problems, and maybe fixed them?

The problem is known with a few people. It's a really strange bug because I am only sniffing the keyboard status. DirectX for a reason really messes up the keystrokes.

You can do 2 things:
- Delete dinput8.dll and close deimos-dsktop.exe, this fixes it for a few people
- Completely shutdown deimos-dsktop.exe and miss keyboard/mouse statistics until a new version is released

Maybe you could remove the DX dependency from future versions? :)

0.8.24 is out, without any DirectX :)

I've installed the new version, on top of the old version, and my keyboard is still ad messed up as before; |´|´|´|´|´|´:(

Could you try uninstalling and reinstalling Deimos? Perhaps not all files were overwritten

Tried uninstalling. Only two files were removed: A start menu link and one other not important file. (Two deimos processes were still running after "uninstall").

So i manually removed everything Deimos and rebooted.

That went fine.

Then I installed Deimos 0.8.24 again... And it's still |´|´|´|´|´|´|´|´|´:(