Steam overlay think shift key is being held!

[SuperJ]

So far it only seems to be a problem when playing Skyrim, and ONLY in the chat box, never the browser. Essentially if I shift-tab to bring up the overlay, it will randomly start pretending I am holding my shift key, changing the case of letters and numbers into there cooresponding symbols on the keyboard.

For example:

Normal: "Just playing Skyrim... for about 7 hours today :P "

Otherwise: "jUST PLAYING SkYRIM>>> FOR ABOUT & hoURs toDAY ;p '

That is seriously how it will be typed out if I don't do... something... so far I have found that going wild on the keyboard will clear the error, but only until the next time I type into the chatbox. Even then it isn't entirely consistent, but seems to be a problem 80% of the time.

For what it's worth I am using a 360 controller to play the game and yes my game is heavily modded.... but would that really screw with the steam chatbox though?

[Mr. Monday]

I kind of doubt that mods would affect the overlay, but I could be wrong. Try it without the controller and see if it changes anything.

[sim 35th]

I'm on phone now so can not provide you with screenshots... see your keyboard settings, it has to be somewhere about how you cancel CAPs - with CAPs key again... or with Shift...

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

there's always been something screwy with using capslock while in skyrim then going to the overlay, my guess is that's what's causing the problem. I have a similar thing happening to me, but it's not at all random and I just have to toggle things to fix the weird shifting/caps