Character stuck walking backwards

[Skynet]

Hi everybody,
since today i am dealing with a weird bug. I loaded a quicksave (Seul mission) and my character stuck walking backwards. It's like if the S key on the keyboard is pressed all the time, I can walk forward but as soon I release the W key, again Sam walks backwards. I can't get rid of it, even deleting and reinstalling the game, deleting all preferences in C:\ProgramData or starting a new campaign fixed the issue.
Did anybody else experience this weird bug? Thanks.

[BeND4R1N0]

Nope, I didn't have this bug on my playthroughs. Must be a driver related problem. Did you check your control settings? But the issue is there. Also, has anyone apart from you go on your computer? Maybe they messed the game up by changing the settings or playing with your drivers.

[trevconkey]

Did you ever find a fix for this? I am just experiencing this exact same thing and it's annoying.

[Skynet]

On my side I haven't found a solution and gave up.
I think only a fresh windows installation might fix the issue. I think there are some setting files or registry entries left somewhere, so even uninstalling and reinstalling the game, it does not fix the issue. So yeah, just a fresh windows installation is the only solution i figure out.

[Ghidrah1]

On the off chance did you test a different keyboard and or try a game pad, Xbox Sony, etc?

[Skynet]

Nope never tried that. But i dont think there are issues with keyboard drivers since so many people have this problem. I think there is a bug in the game, for some reason the backwalking stay triggered even when the game is closed, it's just a bug in the keyboard manager of the game, nothing driver or keyboard-related

[Ghidrah1]

Oh crap I didn't catch the part about many people having the issue.

Odd though even though many have the issue just as many don't, me for one. I don't suppose people maybe accidentally somehow randomly activate sticky keys? I read it seems to be an issue with some win 7 8 and 10 users, I don't know if it flakes on its own or a new program messes with it. or corrupted files.

It makes me think if I had access to another keyboard or game pad I'd try them just to prove to myself it is or isn't my primary board. I know when playing my late 2001 Xbox I had to rotate the towers during start up and before playing otherwise the avatar would move in circles.

14 plus yrs ago I had a microsoft win xp keyboard that developed a dead key.

[Skynet]

I dont know, sometimes things like that happen when you push a key and the game loose the focus, for instance due to a windows notification or something, which brings the focus back to the desktop or another application. When you go back to the game, the key is still triggered.

Sometimes it happens to me when I push shift+tab to bring Steam overlay hud on top, and if my character is running, it keeps doing even though no key is pushed. So i think something like that happened with Splinter Cell. It's weird btw that there is no way to fix it. Usually restarting the game, or pressing the triggered key back, it is a fix.

[trevconkey]

I figured it out on my end. I had a joystick plugged in and something was leaning on it pushing it forward. I unplugged the joystick and the issue stopped.

[𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖎]

I know how to fix it. Right click on the game in your library and press properties, go to "local files" and click "Verify integrity of game files...". On ubisoft it works for me very time it's happening

[Χάρης]

This probably won't help since we are talking about PC version, but I thought of sharing a lil' story that I haven't told anyone.

I had this issue with one of my original xbox controllers but the movement direction was right. As soon as I started playing a game (doesn't matter which game) the character or vehicle would turn to the right. What I had to do was move the thumbstick to that same direction for a couple of times and it would stop. But without pressing any other key, just the thumbstick ( so in this case just press S, without shift ).

[𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖎]

Originally posted by Χάρης:

This probably won't help since we are talking about PC version, but I thought of sharing a lil' story that I haven't told anyone.

I had this issue with one of my original xbox controllers but the movement direction was right. As soon as I started playing a game (doesn't matter which game) the character or vehicle would turn to the right. What I had to do was move the thumbstick to that same direction for a couple of times and it would stop. But without pressing any other key, just the thumbstick ( so in this case just press S, without shift ).

but i did talk about pc version