Well, Oblivion was working really awesome, I got through the tutorial, looks sharp, love the combat. Anyways, I quit because I have to go make supper. When I load it up again, my character is trying to walk backwards. Always. Regardless of what I do. The other keys work, and I can fight, but it's unbelievably annoying to be constantly walking backwards. I think it's something either within my config or with my system, since I tried switching keyboards and the problem persists. I thought it was that godawful "StickeyKeys", but that's not enabled. Please guys, I've been fighting with it for about 4 hours. :(

Man, that bites. At this early stage, your best bet would be to try at the official forums.

Maybe autowalk is on? try hitting G. (I think thats the key)

Yeah sounds like a 'toggle' key.

Well, that's what I initially thought, but when I press AutoMove (Q key), it still does it when I turn it off. When it's on, I walk constantly forward, as I'm supposed to, but as soon as it's off, I keep walking backwards. I have pressed (literally) every single key on the keyboard, and that's not what it seems to be, although I suppose it could be a combination.

What happen if you try to move foward? Does it make you advance, or just stop you, the two commands canceling each others?

One thing you could try is unbind the walk backward key and see what it does, or at least bind it somewhere else.

When I press the forward key, the character moves forward too. As soon as I stop pressing the "W" key, it reverts to walking backwards.

I just tried it elsewhere, and it doesn't seem to fix the problem.

Hmm.. I have had something like this occur in more than one game. I sometimes think it starts when you save (or quicksave) when pressing one of the movement buttons. The game then saves you walking backwards, even if you don't press the key. Might that be it?

Hmm.. this might be your "StickeyKeys". If so, I haven't got a clue.

Unfortunately, it's also present in new games. I just tried a full reinstall (I didn't get very far in the game,) and the same problem pops up. So I'm thinking it must be linked to my computer itself. However, since I can't play Oblivion, I've been playing BG2 and have been having no problems.

Try pressing two keys at once. Computer make a beep? Then it's registering you hitting three keys at once, a feat many keyboards (PS/2 interface ones, anyway) aren't capable of. Thus, the computer says "what the heck is going on" and then beeps out an error.

Failing that, I'd still say you'd do well to pry off that "S" key and see what lies below. I figure it's a hardware issue.

ding! that told me enough. go to controls, and go back to defaults. That will fix it. (Then remap again). something went wrong..

If that doesnt do it, unplug and disable any items in your windows task manager--that deal with joysticks or other input devices. but I think remapping will fix it.

you wouldnt have a joy stick pluged into that computer.
a lot of the real old games sometimes would drift because
the joystick was off a little bit.

ding! that told me enough. go to controls, and go back to defaults. That will fix it. (Then remap again). something went wrong..

If that doesnt do it, unplug and disable any items in your windows task manager--that deal with joysticks or other input devices. but I think remapping will fix it. </font>[/QUOTE]I just tried that, unfortunately, same old same old. There are no auxiliary controllers hooked up to the computer, and there haven't been since I reformatted the two drives when I upgraded. The only things in my Windows taskbar are Norton AntiVirus, a printer (through the network), and that annoying Messenger thing. This is really bugging me. I don't think it's a keyboard thing since when I write a character's name, it types fine and as per normal.

Have you checked the official forums for this problem to see if it ain't just you. This way you know where to look.

[ 03-22-2006, 10:18 PM: Message edited by: SpiritWarrior ]

Well, it seems to be something to do with a joystick controller. There is a line in the .ini file which refers to this. bUseJoystick = 0 is what it should be. Now, I tried this, and indeed, the variable was set to 1. So I changed it, and then when I went into the game...same problem. So I unplugged the GamePad, WHICH I DID NOT REALISE WAS PLUGGED IN. Fixed it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

If you want an exercise in frustration, try going to the Elder Scrolls forums. Not only do topics get buried under people wondering why their video cards don't work well, but there are people there to complain about the fact that you need technical help. Also, there is no search function, which means you have to wade through pages of stuff just to see if anything's relevant.

Glad to hear it Moose. I'm jealous as all hell of each and every one of you, but I hate to see powerful computers and folks possessing Oblivion not get to enjoy it.

As for the forums. Yikes. There's really only one word for people who complain that you have problems (because they don't - everyone's should be working, right?). Trolls. You get to fight some in game at least :D

LOL, ya noob! ;)

Glad you got it fixed.

Yeh, no search function is lame.. But I bet they turned it off due to high volume of traffic--I too posted, and by the time I posted it, it was on page 4! wow...

I haven't had but one small fixable bug so far--screen goes black-- but alt-tab and go back fixes it...

Yeah, and there isn't even a real Tecnhical Support forum.