Fallout New Vegas keys disabled

[pokkla]

I recently got back to playing Fallout New Vegas (last played Feb ’24). However, it appears that vorpX now disables the “E” and the “ESC” keys. No other keys seem to be affected. I can run the game without vorpX and all the keys work fine. I can also run other games with vorpX, like Skyrim SE and Fallout 4, and all the keys work fine. I use MO2, so I tried FONV native (no MO2 and no mods) and I got the same results as running with MO2. That is, the keys work fine without vorpX. But, those two keys are disable with vorpX running. I have done all the noob fixes too, like rebooting the computer, etc.

In FONV, I can remap the action key “E” to something else (like “P”) and the action key works as planned. However, I can’t remap the ESC (menu) key and it is critical to game play. vorpX works fine itself displaying great VR once up and running. It’s just that I can’t use the E or ESC keys.

I have had vorpX for many, many years and used it with many, many games, and this issue is a head scratcher. Is there a different hook/method I should try? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[pokkla]

Update: For what it’s worth, I was able to downgrade vorpX from v25.1.4 to v21.3.5. With that, the “ESC” and “E” keys worked fine. It took a bit of thinking to block the update calls so v21.3.5 wouldn’t get overwritten, but it does work. I’m working on a version swapping program so I can keep v25.1.4 from my other games.

If anyone has ideas on why E and ESC don’t work in v25, let me know.

[Ralf]

Super weird. Can’t replicate the ‘ESC’ key issue, but get the ‘E’ key problem in New Vegas too. No idea why yet, but will be looked into ASAP next week.

When swapping versions be aware that while great care is taken that vorpX stays backward compatible to older profiles, it is obviously impossible to guarantee forward compatibility. I.e. profiles/settings saved with 25.1 may not work correctly in older vorpX versions.

[Ralf]

Problem found, affects (probably not many) games that use DirectInput for evaluating keyboards in a certain way. Borked mapping from Windows key codes to DirectInput key codes on vorpX’s end.

Thanks for the heads-up, will be fixed in the next build.

Semi-related sidenote: the game works great with head tracking and native gamepad/motion controller input after running the DirectVR memory scan, so not much reason to use keyboard/mouse here.

[pokkla]

Thanks Ralf, I’ll unblock updates and look forward to the next version.

PS. And, yes, you are correct. With v21 I had to make significant updates to the profile to make it enjoyable. Going forward, I’ll probably just use your default v25.x.x FONV profile to move forward.

[pokkla]

Update #2 (for anyone finding this):
I tried other versions and v24.1.0 also does not disable the ESC and E keys. It works per normal… it works great.

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