What to do if you're locked out of keyboard mode
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:21 pm
A few people have reported an occasional problem, when they play their custom adventures. The game's Options say "Mouse/Keyboard", but keyboard doesn't actually work, and you can't change the option.
It used to be that people have to reinstall the Editor to fix this, but I've worked out two much simpler methods that should fix the problem:
1) If your Editor is currently good (no problem with Mouse/Keyboard), you can create a backup copy of the file global.wdf. This file is inside the "User Data" folder. Then when the problem occurs for you in the future, you can just restore global.wdf from your backup, and things should be back to normal again. You may need to adjust your Options (eg. which player profile to use, music/sound volume, etc.) after restoring the backup, if they were changed between the time you make the backup and the time your problem occurs.
2) If your Editor got the problem now and you have no backup copy of global.wdf, don't worry! Just delete global.wdf. Yes, delete. When you do that and run the game again, it will ask you to select a player profile, and then the game will apparently re-create the global.wdf file. Things should be back to normal now (again, you may want to look at the Options and re-adjust them if needed).
It used to be that people have to reinstall the Editor to fix this, but I've worked out two much simpler methods that should fix the problem:
1) If your Editor is currently good (no problem with Mouse/Keyboard), you can create a backup copy of the file global.wdf. This file is inside the "User Data" folder. Then when the problem occurs for you in the future, you can just restore global.wdf from your backup, and things should be back to normal again. You may need to adjust your Options (eg. which player profile to use, music/sound volume, etc.) after restoring the backup, if they were changed between the time you make the backup and the time your problem occurs.
2) If your Editor got the problem now and you have no backup copy of global.wdf, don't worry! Just delete global.wdf. Yes, delete. When you do that and run the game again, it will ask you to select a player profile, and then the game will apparently re-create the global.wdf file. Things should be back to normal now (again, you may want to look at the Options and re-adjust them if needed).