Arcade mode: Cannot pause game or resume fights without inviting player 2.

[gungadin22000]

In arcade mode, whenever I hit either of the "Start" buttons for keyboard 1 or 2 configurations, I get the "A new warrior has entered the ring!" message, it stops the AI match I am in and enters a second player controllable from my PC. It does not matter which Start button I press, both invite a new player.

This bug also makes it impossible to continue after losing a fight, as pressing either start button seems to just invite a new player to the game. I can then continue my ongoing arcade game where I left off if I beat up the uncontrolled player character, but it's insufferable having to do that every time I want to continue.

Any fix for this bug? It makes the game nearly unplayable.

[r¡sê ºƒ çhaös]

You need to go into the controls. If your using a gamepad there's no need to be hitting anything on the keyboard. You need to go through the various controllers (you can configure 2 players on one keyboard I think) and change the controls or just stop hitting those buttons.

[gungadin22000]

Did that, not working. Pressing player 1's start button seems to make the game assume I also pressed player 2's start button.

I do not have a gamepad.

[Berseker]

Same problem here. I encountered many keyboard problems and it is one of them. I hope they will correct it someday...

[gungadin22000]

Hmm, maybe we can narrow it down. I'm playing it windowed on a laptop. Some websites seem to discuss a keyboard fix for SF4, but that seemed to be only for the keyboard completely failing to work instead of just getting player 1 and 2's keys mixed up.

What kind of PC you playing it on and how? Windowed? Tab out a lot?

[Squall Leonhart]

turn off the steam overlay, it seems to be the cause.

[J.N.]

I don't know about the Steam overlay, but this problem existed even before the transition to Steam.

It's most likely a coding issue with developers unfamiliar with how to assign controllers on the PC. Admittedly, it seems very difficult.

[Berseker]

I play it on a laptop, windowed, with steam overlay and I reassigned some keys in the options. Edit: tried deactivating Steam overlay, but it didn't change anything.
It seems to me like the game was just not correctly tested for the keyboard.

[gungadin22000]

Same thing here, did not appear to resolve the problem.