OT: PC keyboard problem

I guess the KB came with driver software to handle those extra volume etc buttons. Try unistalling that driver and rebooting; Windows should then use a standard KB driver. This may solve your game problem, at the cost of losing a bit of "useful" functionality.

Some Logitech mouse drivers have a similar problem in games.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the keyboard is listed as a normal 101 key keyboard and uses the microsoft drivers. I don't know how the extra buttons are intercepted. A plain vanilla keyboard didn't solve the problem.

The only thing I have been able to do is reduce the repeat rate which was set to maximum. This doesn't completely solve the problem. On my other machine everything works fine with the repeat rate at max.

MBQ

This wouldn't be a USB keyboard would it...? ;)

Also, there could still be additional keyboard sotware installed, like my "multimedia" keyboard uses - which still shows up as using the "standard" Microsoft driver in device manager.

Lee

No.

Any ideas where to look for it or how to uninstall it?

MBQ

Assuming XP, I'd start by looking at the running processes in task manager, and do a Google on any that I didn't recognise or that had a name that looked like it might be keyboard related.

If one is running, then you will at least then know what it's called and can look in "add/remove programs" or run "msconfig" to temporarily stop it starting.

Lee