I can't ride my pals or use their weapons/attacks (F Button related issue)

[Nasti]

I have several bugs but none of them really prevent me from playing the game except this one bug:
When I spawn one of my pals I'm carrying with me, I can't ride them/make the monkey use its rifle/etc etc really anything thats related to pressing the F button. It will only "shake" and be buggy and maybe if I press it a hundred times I can mount my wolf, but then it takes me another two minutes to get off of it.
I also have issues with other functions that require using the F button like watering my plantation etc but it's just laggy, it still works.
Does anyone know a solution to this? I already repaired the installation files two times and restarted the games over the span of several days.
If i deinstall and then reinstall the game, will my single player server still exist?
Thanks in advance!

[ExplorerNMS]

I don't advise Un-installing as a solution.

the "F" key is used for so much it seems overburdened to me.

if there is an object or something else that you can interact with using the F key while you are trying to use the F key for something else, like mounting, dismounting, etc. the F key will chose one over the other. This happens a lot. an awful lot.

You have to Press & Hold the F key to perform certain actions, and there is a tendency to Tap the F key, (at least I have a tendency to tap it) which of course results in the F key not working, and me having to press it over and over again until I remember that I need to Press & Hold.

The F key is overburdened IMHO

[Nypyren]

For mounting, you have to keep holding F until your character mounts/dismounts. The pal has to get close enough to you first (holding F makes them approach you), and you have to keep holding F the entire time until you're actually on their back. If they're stuck on something and can't get to you, resummon them in a better spot and try again.

If you're already holding the key and it's not working, there may be something wrong with your keyboard or drivers. For example when I had the Japanese IME active, certain games detected some kind of special modifier key being pressed all of the time and it interfered with all other input, so I had to disable the IME completely for those games.

There are occasional bugs with mounting getting stuck if you were near an item that you could pick up. Look around for a [F] Pick Up prompt somewhere on your screen and go pick that item up and hopefully it'll fix your mount.

[Stelar Seven]

Have you tried a word document and seeing how well your F key works? You may just need a new keyboard.

[Sacred Myths]

the F button thing happened to me before i just put it in palbox and took it out and it worked. As to the can't get off the flying thing i just used a teleport thing and boom i was off

[Nasti]

Thanks for your suggestions! After trying them out, I realized my keyboard is indeed broken (even though I can type just fine). A friend gave me his keyboard and all of the "bugs" I had where gone, so I'll buy a new keyboard.