vallidor Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 I don't have any other games to test with, but whenever I get into New Vegas my keyboard layout gets ignored it seems to revert to US English (qwerty). I've verified I have no Qwerty layout set anywhere in control panel, and I have a suspicion it's a DirectX thing. Has anybody experience with this? Just to clarify, when (either as a hotkey or typing text) i press the letter 'o', the letter 's' is read by the game. Apostrophe comes through as a 'q' keypress, and so on. My google-fu found a couple similar issues with no conclusion besides 'just use qwerty for games', which i have been doing for months at least with new vegas so far, but hey it doesn't hurt to ask. Thanks guys.
Nimboss Posted November 17, 2011 Posted November 17, 2011 Hi, Yes I think it is a DirectX thingy. Since almost all "normal" people use a keyboard that have most keys in QWERTY layout regardless of country, using a DVORAK might be confusing. Most people nowadays don't even know there is a much faster key layout like DVORAK and still uses the stone age QWERTY layout. Actually pretty amusing to read up on why letter keys are put where they are and not by statistical usage as priority instead :confused: The DirectX is more concentrated on key placement on the physical layout than what is printed on the key so if you grab a IBM QWERTY layout scheme for a keyboard I think you can remap with the use of DVORAK placement instead. There might even be more odd key placements since, well DVORAK is a kind of l33t layout and the manufacturer of your keyboard might made unique drivers that create even another layer of key swapping before the OS get the key presses. I hope you can sort it out :thumbsup:
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