Tilde key in Windows Vista
By
Obitus,
Posted on: 2010-10-08 14:56 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
By
Obitus,
Posted on: 2010-10-08 14:56 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Thought I'd just drop a note here, because I've seen people complain about not being able to use the tilde key in CoH, and as far as I know, no solution is posted on the CoH forums.
If you use Vista and you can't get the tilde key to work in-game, then uninstall the ITECIR Infrared Driver. You can find it under "Human Interface Devices" in the Device Manager.
If you want the Infrared Driver, then I also found this solution posted elsewhere. Can't vouch for how well it works, though:
If you use the Microsoft eHome remote/receiver (official media centre remote and USB receiver) you'll notice under your device manager you have a new device named Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard; this is the cause of the tilde key not working. It also affects your plus, minus, parenthesis, hash, @, and slash keys remapping them to different functions. (some are even weird Kanji characters)
Solution is as follows and will not affect the functionality of your Media Centre remote:
1. Go into Device Manager -> Keyboards.
2. Right-click "Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard", choose "Update Driver" ("Update Driver Software" on Vista).
3. Choose "Browse my computer for software" (XP users tell it not to install automatically and say you'll specify the location, then when it asks you where you would like it to search for drivers choose the option to choose from a list) then "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
4. Make sure "show compatible hardware" is checked, then select "HID-compliant device" and click next. Click any remaining "OK" or "Finish" buttons after Windows has installed the driver.