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I was promised cake has DOOM Eternal

Mar 20, 2020 @ 1:28pm

Tab key not responding?

Anyone else having an issue where the tab key becomes entirely unresponsive while Doom is open?

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Nodiskus

Mar 20, 2020 @ 2:23pm

Same here, was frustrated I couldn't tab out of tutorial prompts literally because Tab does not work ingame. I've tried binding tab to other keys, doesn't recognize it.

Until theres a fix, will have to restart from checkpoints and probably not have access to my abilities? No clue.

Edit: Its only ingame, I can Shift+Tab for overlay and on my desktop, just doesn't exist ingame. I also reset all keybinds and noticed shortly after that Tab was functioning again.

Last edited by Nodiskus; Mar 20, 2020 @ 2:31pm

I was promised cake has DOOM Eternal

Mar 20, 2020 @ 9:46pm

It seems to have something to do with windowed borderless. When I swap it over to fullscreen it reacts just fine. I've also managed to work around it by alt+tab-ing to a different program like steam, then alt+tab-ing my way back into DOOM. No idea what's up though. I'd also recommend doing a secondary binding of the dossier to the tilde '~' key. It's right above tab and I don't think anything else is bound to it so if it messed up again, then you have an emergency backup.

Nodiskus

Mar 20, 2020 @ 10:39pm

Played fullscreen the entire time and nothing changes it. Did change keybinds and that is at least a fix. Such a strange bug.

e33et

Nov 11, 2020 @ 5:04am

I've also having issue with tab, can't check map or mod weapons and suite, please Id software how hope u fix it with hot fix or patch if u have solved this issue.

i'm on part 3 and i need to be more powerful, but as other said it doesn't do anything only few times e.g when maps are updated.

Kind regards
e33et

salmiakki_pills has DOOM Eternal

Mar 27, 2021 @ 5:03am

Same here, It seems "tab" key works again if I do alt-enter twice

★ Chawmander has DOOM Eternal

Feb 28 @ 12:29pm

Good to see after all this time it wasn't fixed. Alt-enter did work for me though so thanks to that guy.

Provolonious Apr 13 @ 7:51am

Originally posted by salmiakki_pills:
Same here, It seems "tab" key works again if I do alt-enter twice

This is the only thing that's worked for me aside from changing keybind off of tab. I have to press alt-enter and then the tab key for the game to recognize I've pressed the tab key.

Last edited by Provolonious; Apr 13 @ 7:51am