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SiBullSki Aug 21, 2022 @ 6:18pm

I can't use keyboad and mouse.

When I try to change the controls I'm unable to select anything else except for keyboard only

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I'm proud of you, son Aug 23, 2022 @ 12:05am

Two things:
1) I strongly recommend you don't use the Steam version of the game (which is actually the GOG version of the game, the DOS original game bundled with DOSBox) and instead you should use the community-made Source Port of the game called DXX-Rebirth. Give it a quick google search and you should be able to find it. It's trivial to get running (as long as you own the game yourself, which you obviously do) and you won't have any problems like this ever again.

2) I'm not sure, it's been a long time since I've run the DOS version of Descent. I'm assuming it's because you (iirc) don't/can't use the Enter button to change radio/check buttons like that. From what I remember, you can use the Spacebar to make your choice. Should be pretty easy to enable mouse and/or joystick and then configure those.

Escape button is kind of like modern controller inputs, it works as the B button for going backwards in menus. Spacebar rather than Enter is what they used for the A button analog, and you can also press the keyboard button like M, to go to the menu line item that starts with an M.

It's pretty neat to look at old DOS menu controls and see how much something as simple as navigating menus has changed and become kind of standardized.

SiBullSki Aug 23, 2022 @ 12:59am

thanks I managed to fix the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling and I decided to download d2x xl maybe ill give rebirth a try sometime.

I'm proud of you, son Aug 23, 2022 @ 1:03am

D2X-XL is not guaranteed to work out of the box. The developer focuses more on adding features than he does on making it stable. Give it a whirl, but please don't let your experience with D2X-XL colour your opinion on Rebirth. Rebirth is, for the most part, very stable. I never got D2X-XL working myself, maybe one day I'll try again. A lot of the features are pretty cool.