Escape key

[Valkhyon]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with my escape key in fallout 4.
My keyboard perfectly works on other games, but not in fallout 4, the escape key doesn't work.

I tried another keyboard and same issue.

In controls menu, escape key is used for the pause menu, so I changed for another key but problem : in craft menu, escape key is necessary to go backwards.

I had to connect a game pad only to go backwards and had to disconnect it to use again my keyboard.

If someone has an idea what to do to solve that !
Thank you !

[swanteson]

фоллыя норм????

[Xyzzy]

craft menu, is hit Enter to exit, most other menu go backs use Tab. Esc is for settings save and exit to main menu.

[Valkhyon]

No that doesn't work, my game asks escape key to exit from craft menu, tab and enter don't do anything.

[Xyzzy]

oh, well maybe try reset to default keys, or, i dunno.

[Mr Majestic]

About every 30 minutes if I hit the Esc or Tab key it drops to desktop and removes the ability to save the game from the Esc menu. When I exit the game if I click on any desktop icon it throws up the properties info, I can't open any file or folder and I have to reboot my computer. I tried disabling Steam overlay in case this was the problem, but nothing changed.

I changed my Pipboy to use the letter P instead of Tab, and I use the mouse to click on the words 'Tab) Exit' when it's displayed (which lowered the frequency of crashes) but you invariably have to use Esc or Tab on some game sub menus. Which, without fail, will drop to desktop and require a reboot.

About. Every. 30. Minutes.

Fun fun.



I don't know if this is related or not, but I make all my settlers wear hessian sacks on their heads and refer to me as the Divine Sage of Heaven.

[Xyzzy]

u have a wireless keyboard? have u got all drivers

[Mr Majestic]

No, a wired keyboard.

Graphics driver is up to date, I don't think there's any keyboard drivers... it just works. It's a Microsoft Custom Curve Keyboard 3000.



Note, that's the 3000 model.

As in, "Ahhh... you're still using the 2000 model? You should upgrade like I did to the MS CCK 3000. One thousand better than the old model. Just don't hit Esc or Tab when playing Fallout 4 or it will just crash absolutely everything."

[Xyzzy]

well i was thinking human interface devices, and keybd and mouse drivers. dll's.
yeah all devices need drivers, look in Device manager, its in control panel i think in W7 or rightclick Mycomputer icon click properties Other thing, dont play on keyb-mouse while gamepad plugged in, or pen input touch devices steering wheel etc. til you've eliminated them from your tests, might help.

[Slick]

OK, what is the answer? I now have this game and the ESC key does not work for anything. This post is a little old but there is no fix response. Does anyone have the fix? Currently the only way I can get out of the Map is if I fast travel and fast travel back because the ESC key does not work.

Thanks for any help!

[Seqhmet]

Originally posted by Mr Majestic:

About every 30 minutes if I hit the Esc or Tab key it drops to desktop and removes the ability to save the game from the Esc menu. When I exit the game if I click on any desktop icon it throws up the properties info, I can't open any file or folder and I have to reboot my computer. I tried disabling Steam overlay in case this was the problem, but nothing changed.

I changed my Pipboy to use the letter P instead of Tab, and I use the mouse to click on the words 'Tab) Exit' when it's displayed (which lowered the frequency of crashes) but you invariably have to use Esc or Tab on some game sub menus. Which, without fail, will drop to desktop and require a reboot.

About. Every. 30. Minutes.

Fun fun.



I don't know if this is related or not, but I make all my settlers wear hessian sacks on their heads and refer to me as the Divine Sage of Heaven.

There's your problem...it's 'Divine Saga...', not sage. I'm surprised you didn't fry your CPU. You got lucky.

[skinnybob]

Hey for anyone who is still having this issue: For whatever reason, when I restored the default keyboard settings it fixed this issue and now my escape key works. Hope this helps some one else

[LisaScarletLiveYT]

any fix after 4+ years ?? ...oof

[Zes]

there is a txt file in documents\my games\fallout 4\ named control.. something.. if you delete it your key settings should get reset. maybe it can fix your problem.

[Zes]

oh just realized the date of original post. nevermind you probably are dead from covid or something lol

[isomorphic_projection]

Originally posted by LisaScarlet:

any fix after 4+ years ?? ...oof

i had the exact same problem a while ago. My fix was easy, uncheck your controllers in settings.