UI Bug - Escape Key and other functions stop working

Transorb

Since the 2 most recent patches - I have been experiencing user interface issues. The game client always initially works fine, however, after sometimes as little as 15 minutes - the escape key no long works to bring up the system menu. All other menus work fine: character screen, skills screen, inventory etc, - all other keybinds work fine except Escape.

When attempting to destroy items in my inventory - the items are greyed out and become locked. Items cannot be destroyed.

Skills cannot be added under the skills menu.


To repair the issue, because the system menu is inaccessible and therefore so is the quit option, I must alt tab out of the client and right click the start menu pin (or control alt delete and end the process). Restarting the client from there works - only temporarily. I also am not given the option to bind a 2nd key to the system menu, in case this happens perhaps a 2nd key could be used to rule out keyboard failure or conflicting keystrokes.

I should note that all of my addons have been rendered out of date by this patch, which I am currently in the process of updating them.

Has anybody else experienced this issue?


edit: Quick traveling also does not work.

SilverWF

Disable all Point_to_group_leader addons

Transorb

Is that the name of an addon? Or are you saying disable addons that would point to the group leader. As far as I am aware, I do not have any such addons. I do have ESOhead and ESOhead markers - which may point towards the group leader.

Swordguy

there is another thread on this already, but after hours of testing and recreating the problem, I've yet to find any responsible add-ons, or reason why the bug occurs. sometimes someone sends me a tell and it breaks key bindings, sometimes i drop something into the bank and it happens. I've gone through all the suspect add-ons that other people have that I have, and who've had the same issues with escape key, and the bug still occurs at random without those mods. Having said that, I've somehow avoided the bug for 6 hours of straight gameplay after getting rid of an achievement tracker add-on, but that is likely just a string of good luck and a false positive.

Transorb

I was thinking it began when I set my video options to windowed fullscreen. It seems as if it may be a result of tabbing between windows and displays frequently. This is just a guess as I have no evidence of this.

I have, in the past, had issues tabbing back into the ESO client. Perhaps the recent changes to how the client window interacts with windows has escalated this issue.

Either way, I have reported the bug and I am sure Zenimax is aware of this by now - I am usually slow to the game.

Swordguy

Transorb wrote: »

I was thinking it began when I set my video options to windowed fullscreen. It seems as if it may be a result of tabbing between windows and displays frequently. This is just a guess as I have no evidence of this.

I have, in the past, had issues tabbing back into the ESO client. Perhaps the recent changes to how the client window interacts with windows has escalated this issue.

Either way, I have reported the bug and I am sure Zenimax is aware of this by now - I am usually slow to the game.

I think you are correct. The first time I noticed the bug was after the patch for fullscreen mode.

*edit* oh, and I have dual monitors as well, with 2nd screen for web browsing etc.. just in case that has something to do with it.

SilverWF

Transorb wrote: »

Is that the name of an addon? Or are you saying disable addons that would point to the group leader. As far as I am aware, I do not have any such addons. I do have ESOhead and ESOhead markers - which may point towards the group leader.

Disable ESOhead too

PlagueSD

doing a /reloadui fixes the issue for me whenever it happens. Going to test an addon "reloaduiKeybind" that lets you keybind the reloadui command. We'll see how this works.

Transorb

That would be nice - reload UI is inaccessible because it is within the system menu, which you cannot get to. A keybind for this would be great! Tell me if it work, and if it does, how you did it! (please)

SilverWF

Transorb wrote: »

That would be nice - reload UI is inaccessible because it is within the system menu, which you cannot get to. A keybind for this would be great! Tell me if it work, and if it does, how you did it! (please)

have you ever tryed to type /reloadui in chat?
Have you disabled ESOhead?

peacenote

FWIW I experienced the ESC issue this weekend too. I sadly did not think to try /reloadui. It just didn't occur to me that it would be a UI issue. I alt-tabbed out of the game, right-clicked it to close it improperly, and it worked on next launch.

During the same play session and subsequent ones after, I also noticed an issue with looting. Some corpses won't loot after killing. My character tries to loot, stays kind of hunched over, but will not loot until I kill something else. Not sure if it is a related issue. I get the "there is an issue or your equipment is damaged" sound, but no error message.

I have many mods installed but not ESOhead.

Jeezye

Is there any solution yet? Also experienced this bug for a week now and it really get frustrating to alt-f4 every 15 minutes..

pinstripesc

When I have issue with unresponsive ESC key no amount of reloadui, logging, etc will fix it. However I found that running Photoshop in the background was what was blocking it, or whatever. Some other guy said Antivirus, so it might be something outside your game.

Madval

Disable Alchemy thing addon. It worked fine for me or just type reloadui.

ozgod22_eso

So the Alchemy addon is the culprit? It started happening to me after last patch too.

zgrssd

exterminatus Group Leader did indeed have such a bug, but it is fixed by now.
So Addons can disrupt the ESC key functionality. But we can also crash the client, so nothing unexpected there.

When noticing any problem, first disable all addons. Then /reloadui. If it still happens check background processes, especailly those that "could never have anything to do with it".

Myrddinman

The only time I've had an issue is after using the Alchemy table. I do have the Alchemy addon, but have not disabled it yet...will have to try that.

Myrddinman

Okay, so /reloadui worked for me. I disabled the Alchemist addon and engaged the Alchemy UI again and was able to ESC with no issue. I also reenabled the Alchemist addon and repeatedly engaged and exited the Alchemy UI with no issues.

So who knows At least /reloadui works

Elongate

Just to confirm. I have same issues, several controls going inresponsive, but typing /reloadui in chat helps. Just annyoing when you loose controls during a fight grr :>

spacewolfplays

libAddonKeybinds, force reinstall it. this should help. Make sure there are no other versions of it in your addons folders.

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

We have closed this topic as it was originally created in May 2014. In many cases, it's better to create a new thread on a topic that you want to discuss as opposed to bumping one that is rather old.

Thank you for your understanding.