Gaming Keyboard and Windows 7 for MMs

I just upgraded Vista (yick) to Windows 7 RC1 (Yee-haw!! SO nice) but now I'm having some serious MasterMind problems. It seems that Windows 7 is taking my Z-Board's numpad keystrokes and turning them into regular qwerty number keystrokes. In other words, I have the 1 key bound to the first tray slot like normal, and the NUMPAD1 key bound to tell my pets to stand down. Under Windows 7 when I hit the NUMPAD1 key, however, the power in tray slot 1 goes off.

I've used this board for a couple years now under both XP and Vista and this has never happened before. I have all the latest drivers (the game board drivers are the same for XP and Vista). The company used to be Ideazon and now it's SteelSeries which no longer has a forum so I couldn't ask there. I did post to the Windows 7 boards but gotten no reply yet.

Here're my questions: Has anyone seen this problem? If so, could you help a fellow MM out and pass any fixes/thoughts/advice on? Also, for any of you who might be using Windows 7 with a good game board (one that has both a numpad and a game pad) that works, which one are you using? I like W7 so much I'd rather buy a new board than switch back to Vista (yick again).

Thanks.

Robin

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Well, I've been playing CoX on Windows 7 for about a month now... No problems here. Although, I'm using a simple Logitech Keyboard. The keybinds I've been using for my mastermind on the numeric keypad have been working fine.

So, I can pretty much confirm it's not a Windows 7 problem (at least not a universal one). Not sure about the gamepad though, but that's where I would look first (not very familiar with gamepads).

P.S. Don't go back to Vista

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I sure hope I don't have to. Oddly enough, under W7 CoX is playing much smoother and my FPS in Villains is now what it was in Heroes (noticeably faster). They certainly got it right in W7.

And no, I don't think it's a W7 problem per se. I think there's just something really goofy between W7 and the ZBoard.

The ZBoard has kind of a goofy numpad that doubles for the Home/End/Delete/etc. keys when Numlock is off. I expect that has something to do with it. I certainly wouldn't mind giving that up, since having no delete key while my numlock is on is very annoying. The 34 button, integrated game pad, however, is something I do not want to give up. I've gotten so used to being able to do two hands worth of controls with one hand and not having to even move the hand to hit all the keys... I've looked online, though, and it seems that only the Zboard has this good a gamepad. Oh well, I might just have to adapt. Or wait for W7 to come out in retail and hope SteelSeries puts out some W7 drivers that work.

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--If we can have huge sig images, why can we have only five lines of text?
--...faceplanting like a Defender pulling an AV (Nalrok_AthZim)

Which kind of ZBoard do you have? You might want to try updating it (ZBoard does some weird stuff when its not updated sometimes).

On my ZBoard I just bound the commands I used most (like attack target, bodyguard mode, goto, follow, etc) to the buttons closest to WASD (you can bind multiple things to one key with shift, alt and ctrl).

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It's the Merc, and the drivers are the newest they have, as is the control app.

I actually found a work-around, though. By switching back to the board default and changing some of my keybinds, I was able to route around the numpad. It's not quite as smooth, but it'll do until W7 is out in retail and SteelSeries gets real drivers done.

I was loathe to give up W7. It's the first Windows OS I've really liked since 3.11. XP was nice once they got a couple SPs out for it, but this is truely sharp.

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--If we can have huge sig images, why can we have only five lines of text?
--...faceplanting like a Defender pulling an AV (Nalrok_AthZim)