Strafing Left/Right is delayed or lagged about 50% of the time

[★BigShot★]

Never seen anything like this before. I'm not certain if this is supposed to be some sort of feature or if it's a bug.

Everyone is reporting mouse lag but I have no issue or lag with using my mouse...but I AM GETTING LAG or some weird sort of delay half the time I use my arrow keys for strafing left & right.

Anyone else notice a delay/lag when strafing side to side?

[a.wieczorrek]

Same problem here

[deggial27]

Yep, for a while kept thinking I was getting stuck on debri or AI but at times just happens in a hallway or something. Few threads on this now and found a few sites talking about it as well so hopefully enough to get something done about it.

[Mongoose]

Yep. Strafe left or right and I stop moving forward. Need to release up arrow and press it again, to move.

[The Thorne]

this, is my biggest annoyance in game

[Curunwe]

It happens to me almost all the time. The movement is fine with a pad, but unplayable with keyboard.

[Salva]

Same problem. Also when using keypad keys for running, sometimes it doen't react. It must be a bug I hope they fix it now

[Busa]

i have the same problem i wonder if it just the arrow keys? i seem to have helped it by setting the render resolution to 140%

[(jack)thecrow]

same here and i use Razor keyboard got lock need press two timers

[ClassOf 54]

Yep add me to the list of mugs that thought they would get it right this time. They have no respect for PC players any crap will do. Lets see how long it takes to fix. Back to BF1 till then.

[★BigShot★]

well yea...it's definitely not playable this way I agree. Clearly a game breaker until it's given a proper fix.

[-=BlueGlue=-]

same here :(

[XenoMight47]

check and make sure that you dont have multiple keys binded, for instance strafe left key could also have another key binded to it, your ship controls and your movement controls are different, but they may be crossbinded.

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Psycold:

I figured out a temporary work around if you guys are interested:

Look for a free program called SharpKeys, you can get it from CNET and a few other places. Run it and click add, it will give you a list of keys to change, select each arrow key and rebind it to the corresponding WASD key. After that you just save it registry, reboot and you can play without the movement lag issues. Sucks having to fix our own games but at least you can play the game without getting killed now.

Originally posted by Psycold:

Once it's installed, go to "Add" on the bottom left, it will open a window. On the left side under "Map this key (From key):" you should see the arrow keys near the top of the list. Select the first one which I think was left arrow, then go to the list on the right where it says, "To this key (To Key):" and find "Key: A". Then click Okay. Do this for all 4, so up arrow would be the W key, down arrow the S key, left arrow the A key and right arrow the D key. Once you have all 4, back at the main menu where you first clicked "Add", to the right it says "Write to Registry". Click that and then reboot, once you reboot you can test to make sure it worked by opening Notepad and pressing your arrow keys...they should type the W,A,S and D keys when you press them. Now just go into the game and make sure the movement keys are set to WASD and you should be good to go. To make your arrow keys back to normal, just go back into SharpKeys and click "Delete All", then Write To Registry again and reboot.

From another thread. You can get it from https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

It works great.

[One death guy]

I wanted to necro this thread becasue I just started playing this game recently for the first time and I use arrow keys... and this "non-reaction" thing happened to me so I started to look at threads about this

of course I see this fix that Mongoose posted right above my post - but I was wondering if anyone ever found some other - less complicated fix for this maybe? What is more - did the matter was ever discovered as to why it happens? Did Activision $hit-pport ever addressed this issue officialy?