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[Slinkyfest]

Alright, well, when I start up DF my mouse and keyboard work fine, however, less than a minute in, it locks up. Now, I recently removed weather and temperature to reduce lag in the game and am wondering if this could have impacted my game. Previous to that my mouse and keyboard worked perfectly fine, I had not had any trouble with the controls so I suspect editing the init file is to blame. When I enter the game, I have time to unpause the game and look at a few stockpiles and then it ceases functioning. I searched the forum, couldnt find anything similiar (I am sorry if this is a repost)and I would appreciate any help. (perhaps resetting the init file with a clean copy?)

EDIT :: Well, I reset the init file, however now it wont start at all. Kind of irritating, actually. I recently installed a new fan and added new ram to my comp. I cant imagine the fan affecting game play, but maybe the ram? Sigh... All I want to do is throw kittens into magma... Maybe make bread with their bones, but thats it!

[ April 16, 2008: Message edited by: Slinkyfest ]

[Silveron]

Is it the whole keyboard? Most of the top menu items wont work with capslock on. Aside from that, Ive no clue as to why the mouse wouldnt respond.

[FunnyMan]

I've been having an issue lately where the game completely ignores me after Alt+Tab.  It doesn't happen all the time, it seems to be purely random, and getting it to come back also seems to be random.

Not sure if it's related to this or not.  I run under Linux+Wine (currently 0.9.59), so it may just be that.

[FunnyMan]

Just to confirm, my issue was on Wine's end.  Apparently if you run it without a virtual desktop, it doesn't always recapture focus correctly.

[sq2]

i can say i have a different problem, with a similar end
that i know is _NOT_ caused by dwarffort but the solution
could be of use... maybe not because i use xp not wine...

my problem:
a dodgy program somewhere is stealing focus from dwarffort
but not minimising it or killing the display
dwarffort looses forcus so the mouse and keyboard don't work.

solution:
because alt-tab doesn't work (workaround for another bug?) i have to
use ctl-alt-del to "minimize" it and use "switch task" to get back
in... not sure why but just reselecting the window doesn't work...
and i can't get back in at all with any other windows open...

just my two cents and i hope this helps