What happened to the tilde key?

[Currawong]

When I played this game on my old Windows XP, I could press the tilde key and enter console commands. But now I'm on Windows 8 the tilde key doesn't respond!

It only happens in FNV, though. Has Steam done something to stop the use of console commands? Or is it somehow the fault of Windows 8?

(Edit:) It's happening in Oblivion as well!

[Joel]

My console commands still work fine but I'm still running W7 so I can only assume it's a W8 problem.

[Currawong]

Thanks for the info, Joel. It must be a glitch in Windows 8. I;ve hear bad reports about Windows 8.

[AcNem]

Running Win8 64bit. My console commands working fine.
Console commands working fine too for Skyrim.

[welltodorat]

Why do you even want to use Commands?

[Currawong]

Originally posted by xsnakeingrassx900:

Why do you even want to use Commands?

"Resurrect 1" when somebody dies who shouldn't die, "moveto player" when somebody gets stuck in a wall or falls into the ground, or the commands to fix a broken quest, and so on and so on. About a dozen or so essential commands to fix something when it goes wrong.

[Currawong]

Originally posted by AcNem:

Running Win8 64bit. My console commands working fine.
Console commands working fine too for Skyrim.

Interestingly enough, the console is opening for commands and working well in Skyrim even though it's not opening up in FNV or Oblivion! 8-0

[nacmacfeagal]

Had the same problem in FNV, if using a game pad, disconnect it and the tilde key will work fine, reconnect when finished typing. This should solve your problem, worked for me, but i'm still on windows 7

[Currawong]

Originally posted by nacmacfeagal:

Had the same problem in FNV, if using a game pad, disconnect it and the tilde key will work fine, reconnect when finished typing. This should solve your problem, worked for me, but i'm still on windows 7

Thanks for the advice, but I dom't have a game pad. It must be caused by something else.

All the best
Currawong

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For me on windows 7 my console would not come up found out it to be the Microsoft consumer ir device causing the problem. Here is how to fix the problem.

1) Disable automatic driver downloads:
- Start menu -> Right click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings (top left) -> Hardware -> Windows Update Drivers Settings -> Select "Never check for drivers when I connect a device." -> OK -> Apply -> OK

2) Disabling Hardware:
- Open Device Manager -> Click View -> Devices by connection -> Click + next to Consumer IR Devices -> Click + next to Microsoft e-home infared tranceiver -> Right-Click and disable 'HID-compilant consumer control device' , all 'HID-compilant device's' and 'HID-compilant mouse'

3) Restarting:
- Just restart your computer.

4) Uninstalling e-home Infared Tranceiver:
- Open Device Manager -> Click the plus next to Human Interface Devices -> Right-click e-home Infared Tranceiver -> Click Uninstall.

5) Restart in safe mode:
- Restart your computer but do it in safe mode (to do this you may have to google it because it is different on all computers)

6) Disabling Consumer IR device:
- Open Device manager in safe mode -> Click System Devices -> Right-Click Consumer IR Devices and DISABLE it.

7) Restarting in normal mode:
- Restart your computer as you would normally, and if you did everything correctly e-home Infared Tranceiver SHOULDNT install automatically.

If that doesnt work try this.

1) Editing ini's:
- Go to Documents -> My Games -> Fallout NV -> Open the 'Fallout' and 'FalloutPrefs' config files then press 'CTRL+F' and search 'console' you should get a code saying bAllowConsole make sure it = 1. Then save and try that.


If that still doesnt work

1) Editing Registry ONLY DO THIS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO EDIT YOUR REGISTRY EDITING THE WRONG THING CAN MAKE WINDOWS MALFUCTION YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK SO PLEASE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I'M NOT LIABLE IF YOU MESS UP YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION AND HAVE TO REINSTALL WINDOWS AND YOUR GAMES. MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR REGISTRY.:
- Go Start -> Run -> type 'regedit' go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SYSTEM-CurrentControlSet-Services-i8042prt-Parameters. There should be 'OverrideKeyboardSubtype' with a type of REG_DWORD and a value of 2. Set the value to 0 by right-clicking and clicking 'Modify' then change the value data. If 'OverrideKeyboardSubtype' doesnt appear on your list then create it by Right-click empty space -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value -> Rename it 'OverrideKeyboardSubtype' no 's then reboot.

These instructions should work on windows 8 also. After disabling the microsoft consumer ir device my console now works hope this helps you.