• Garry´s mod kills the keyboard drivers
    3 replies, posted
I have a peculiar problem with Garry´s mod where after an intermediate amount of time (everything from twenty minutes to several hours) the keyboard driver crashes and make input impossible. The mouse and mic still works and the only solution (I play in fullscreen) is to do a hard reset via the power button. Now, this problem is not that annoying in and out of itself but I am kinda worried about windows being corrupted if I keep reseting the computerl ike that. The issue only appears when playing Garry´s mod. I have a laptop. Here is what I have tried: -Reinstalled the keyboard drivers -Updated the keyboard drivers Would it be worth trying pluging in an external keyboard? Should I lower the graphics setting? I have them on "recommended" at the moment. It doesn´t seem to be an overclocking issue from what I can tell... Grateful for any suggestions.
What keyboard are you using? Built-in laptop one? USB one? PS/2 one? Any adapters (PS/2=>USB or whatever)? Does it happen in any other game/application? Does re plugging it in works? Do other keyboards work properly? What makes you think its the drivers at fault? This issue definitely sounds extremely weird.
Thanks for responding. I am using the inbuilt laptop keyboard. It does not happen for any other application. The reason I think the driver crashes is because after the issue happened for the first time it did happen in other games for a short while afterwards. I troubleshooted the drivers and found them to be corrupted (sorry, I do not remember the exact error message). After reinstalling the latest version of the keyboard drivers the problem has stayed localized to Garry´s Mod.
I am sorry for bumping but I really need some help with this. I did some more research and an additional explanation for this issue may be the steam overlay (that is, the button input is "stuck" in the overlay interface instead of the game itself, making it appear as if the keyboard does not work). I don´t think it is in that case but worth a shot. Anyone encountered such an overlay issue and know how to solve it? I am going to try and reinstall Garrys mod and delete my addons. I will post back if I find out what the problem is. In the meanttime I am very grateful for any suggestions.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.