Game auto pausing when pressing keys?

[Chaosolous]

Anytime I press any key on the keyboard the game pauses. There’s no way to unbind the pause button it seems. Anyone know what’s up?

Rtx 3060
Intel i5 11400f
32GB Ram
Linux Mint
Proton experimental

[SilverSet]

By autopausing you mean that your game just stops and there is a "pause" labeled at the center of your screen? Did you install the game out of the box without any changes to the configs and such?
In any case, that's an odd thing that shouldn't happen. Could you check your config.cfg file inside mm->cfg folder and see if there is anything weird binded.

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by SilverSet:

By autopausing you mean that your game just stops and there is a "pause" labeled at the center of your screen? Did you install the game out of the box without any changes to the configs and such?
In any case, that's an odd thing that shouldn't happen. Could you check your config.cfg file inside mm->cfg folder and see if there is anything weird binded.

Yeah. It’s just flashing pause on screen anytime a button is pressed. If I hold a button down it’ll do a “turbo” pause (like those old school 3rd party retro controllers used to). As in, if I hold W to run forward it’ll just flash pause on ands off making the game in like slow motion.

I did have to add a launch code to get the game to not lock up the PC though. I’ll paste it here when I get back to my PC.

[SilverSet]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Yeah. It’s just flashing pause on screen anytime a button is pressed. If I hold a button down it’ll do a “turbo” pause (like those old school 3rd party retro controllers used to). As in, if I hold W to run forward it’ll just flash pause on ands off making the game in like slow motion.

I have never encountered such thing, I feel like using Linux might be the issue here, but I'm not sure why the game behaves like that. Could you try opening your console in game and type "bind w" and see what is is binded to that key? Also, maybe disabling autosaves can help here. Or you can try using -autoconfig in your launch options, that should restore your controls to the default ones.

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by SilverSet:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Yeah. It’s just flashing pause on screen anytime a button is pressed. If I hold a button down it’ll do a “turbo” pause (like those old school 3rd party retro controllers used to). As in, if I hold W to run forward it’ll just flash pause on ands off making the game in like slow motion.

I have never encountered such thing, I feel like using Linux might be the issue here, but I'm not sure why the game behaves like that. Could you try opening your console in game and type "bind w" and see what is is binded to that key? Also, maybe disabling autosaves can help here. Or you can try using -autoconfig in your launch options, that should restore your controls to the default ones.

Yeah it seems like it’s Linux related tbh. I’ll give that a shot when I’m back at my gaming PC.

It’s very strange. The game also defaults to AZERTY instead of QWERTY for some reason. Not sure why, I’m not from a region that uses AZERTY. I ended up rebinding the controls too QWERTY but there’s no “pause” binding in the game.

[SilverSet]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

It’s very strange. The game also defaults to AZERTY instead of QWERTY for some reason. Not sure why, I’m not from a region that uses AZERTY. I ended up rebinding the controls too QWERTY but there’s no “pause” binding in the game.

It might be due to the game installing French keyboard when you first launch it. I'm not sure if the Mod Launcher works with Linux, but give it a try:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3378556750&searchtext=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC+%D0%BA+Dark+Messiah+of+Might+%26amp%3B+Magic+Single+Player

[Chaosolous]

An update to this, in case anyone else ever comes across this issue.

Find the "config.cfg" file that is located in the games installation files.

Open it with a text editor.

Find the: bind "PAUSE" "pause" line.

Change the "PAUSE" binding to a keyboard key. I chose p. It should now look like this:

bind "p" "pause"

That fixed the game from pausing on every key press. IDK why it configured itself that way, but it did.

Also, I have these Launch Options in my Steam Properties for the game:

PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 %command% -novid -w 2560 -h 1440

This has the game running mostly fine now. Audio crackles sometimes but otherwise game is fine. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

[SilverSet]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

This has the game running mostly fine now. Audio crackles sometimes but otherwise game is fine. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

That's great. Could you be more specific about audio cracking? When does it happen and what seems to be wrong exactly?

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by SilverSet:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

This has the game running mostly fine now. Audio crackles sometimes but otherwise game is fine. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

That's great. Could you be more specific about audio cracking? When does it happen and what seems to be wrong exactly?

I'm not sure what changed but the audio crackle has gone away. Game is working fine now.

[SilverSet]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

I'm not sure what changed but the audio crackle has gone away. Game is working fine now.

Oh, well, that's nice too.

[Ink]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

An update to this, in case anyone else ever comes across this issue.

Find the "config.cfg" file that is located in the games installation files.

Open it with a text editor.

Find the: bind "PAUSE" "pause" line.

Change the "PAUSE" binding to a keyboard key. I chose p. It should now look like this:

bind "p" "pause"

That fixed the game from pausing on every key press. IDK why it configured itself that way, but it did.

Also, I have these Launch Options in my Steam Properties for the game:

PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 %command% -novid -w 2560 -h 1440

This has the game running mostly fine now. Audio crackles sometimes but otherwise game is fine. Hope this helps anyone in the future.

Thank you, editing config file helped