Keyboard gets 'stuck' after 5 seconds while playing games...

hellblazer1995

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And since a lot of games use AWSD for movement, this is a problem.

Basically - for example - playing Watch Dogs, when running forward (w) if you hold the w key down for 5 seconds, it'll 'stick' - and you can let go of the keyboard, and you will continue moving forward until you hit w again. This also happened in several other games (BF3, AC, Star Wars the Old Republic; Bioshock Infinite and Borderlands 2 (I think - I'm not sure it happened there... But regardless).
Also Shift+w/s/a/d also comes up with the same issue. The problem doesn't come up in Word.

I've tried turning off all the sticky keys - filter keys - all that stuff; I can't find any way of stopping this so far. Is it maybe a defective keyboard? Or just a 'flaw' in the design?

P.S My keyboard is Microsoft wired 200 and is new.
Thanks.
 
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Hi, i've done some digging around and it seems like this is a recurring problem with Microsoft keyboards, especially Surface Pro 2. Microsoft have stated in their forums that they are investigating the problem currently. There is a temporary fix, which I haven't tried since I can't recreate the problem on my laptop. Go to your control panel, search for keyboard and open it. Change your repeat delay to long and repeat rate to slow. This is only a temporary fix. Try it and please update the forum. I had this problem when i first got my laptop, turning of filter keys worked but you've stated you have already done that :/ I'll dig around some more and see what else I can find, if i find anything else i'll post it here.

Kiddterralv

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Hi, i've done some digging around and it seems like this is a recurring problem with Microsoft keyboards, especially Surface Pro 2. Microsoft have stated in their forums that they are investigating the problem currently. There is a temporary fix, which I haven't tried since I can't recreate the problem on my laptop. Go to your control panel, search for keyboard and open it. Change your repeat delay to long and repeat rate to slow. This is only a temporary fix. Try it and please update the forum. I had this problem when i first got my laptop, turning of filter keys worked but you've stated you have already done that :/ I'll dig around some more and see what else I can find, if i find anything else i'll post it here.
 
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