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[Mono124]

Having the keyboard input set on american style QWERTY

While most games guilty of such a crime are based in flash and other online type things, it is incredibly frustrating when it says: "Press z" and pressing the zed on my keyboard does nothing.

This. Even though I'm american, the last 4 years I have been using QWERTZ because of my German class (we did a LOT of typing) and I got used to using it.

[Neonivek]

You know I do honestly wonder how much faster you type if you use a keyboard actually made for typing faster.

Since QWERTY is made to make your typing slower.

[Mono124]

You know I do honestly wonder how much faster you type if you use a keyboard actually made for typing faster.

Since QWERTY is made to make your typing slower.

I'd be afraid of typing faster than I do. I already type a good 80 words per minute and I only use my pointer fingers, middle fingers, and my left pinky. It's really scary. I scared the crap out of my keyboarding teacher (and had to convince him to not fail me because he though I was cheating somehow).

[mastahcheese]

Oh, gosh, in middle school, they tried to teach us the "correct" way to type on a keyboard, that uses all of your fingers.
They had us type on a program that logged how many word per minute we were typing.
I literally had to wait until the teacher stopped looking, and type the way I normally do with only my index and middle fingers in order to get enough words per minute to pass.

[Neonivek]

Which honestly from what I understand about QWERTY makes sense because it was built for touch typing.

Also apperantly QWERTY is also terrible for RSI. I am reading articles on alternate keyboard layouts. Including one that actually says that many typing competitions outright ban set ups that aren't QWERTY because they are an unfair advantage. Which I find hilarious.

I'd be interesting with switching it (since I get wrist pains) but it is the same situation as the left handed mouse. SURE I could get used to it, but everything is made for a right handed mouse (plus the neutral mouse actually fits more comfortably in my hand I feel. I like lighter mouses and Left handed mouses are HUGE!). Dear goodness that mouse was trash, you actually had to download a program off the internet to make its bright lights turn off.

[miauw62]

AZERTY master race!

[Mrnocamera]

Oh, gosh, in middle school, they tried to teach us the "correct" way to type on a keyboard, that uses all of your fingers.
They had us type on a program that logged how many word per minute we were typing.
I literally had to wait until the teacher stopped looking, and type the way I normally do with only my index and middle fingers in order to get enough words per minute to pass.

I'm having to do that now, and we have a really annoying teacher who just sits at her desk and says "funny" comments, so if you are out of her line of sight, you can cheat all you want.

[mastahcheese]

Oh, gosh, in middle school, they tried to teach us the "correct" way to type on a keyboard, that uses all of your fingers.
They had us type on a program that logged how many word per minute we were typing.
I literally had to wait until the teacher stopped looking, and type the way I normally do with only my index and middle fingers in order to get enough words per minute to pass.

I'm having to do that now, and we have a really annoying teacher who just sits at her desk and says "funny" comments, so if you are out of her line of sight, you can cheat all you want.

You're lucky you got a funny one, mine would patrol the room with a stern look. 

[Lightningfalcon]

I can still remember my keyboarding teacher "A S D F, space.  J K L, semicolon, space.  A S D F, space.  J K L, semicolon, space.  A S D F, space.  J K L, semicolon, space." for an entire hour.
I had fun in that class because everyone else was struggling to type while I was sitting there bored getting 60 words a minute with perfect accuracy. 

[Mrnocamera]

My school is the kind where the keys are missing, so I had to do that with no semicolon, k or s.

[alexandertnt]

the most logical place to put data and files related to a game is in the same bloody place where the game is installed!

Immutable game data, yes.

but for configuration files/saves etc...

Games which save data to their install directory
Writing to "program files" typically requires admin priveliges, and a computer game should not need admin priveliges. It is really annoying having to launch a compuer game as an admin because the developers were to lazy to folow Microsoft's recomendations. developers just dump their data all over the hard drive.

To be fair, this is a larger complaint against games coded for NT-based OS's (2000, xp 7 etc), where the programs really should have properly written user data to the correct locations. Microsoft's own games were generally good at actually doing this correctly.



Games which outright refuse to launch based on a detected incompatability
"This game cannot run on NT". Which may have been true back when Microsoft segregated their OS's between regular folk os (95, 98 etc) and business/server os (NT) and NT wasnt geared towards multimedia. But the game probably can run on the modern incarnations of NT (Win7, 8 etc) and outright refusing to even try to run and self-terminating is really fustrating and seemingly pointless. Couldn't you have just warned me that it might not work and let me try anyway?

Some games also detect video memory, and nVidia Optimus seems to break this (returning some silly number like 17mb). So a 10 year old game refusing to run due to insufficient video memory on a video card with 3gb of vram is very fustrating.

[itisnotlogical]

I'm lucky. I only had to take a typing class for about three months sometime in elementary, and then they apparently dropped it when most of us were better at typing than the teachers were.

We figured out that if we typed a word while holding down every key as we pressed it, the software would type the word repeatedly. We ended up typing pages upon pages of naughty words into the software instead of doing the assignments most days.

[Sensei]

Some games also detect video memory, and nVidia Optimus seems to break this (returning some silly number like 17mb). So a 10 year old game refusing to run due to insufficient video memory on a video card with 3gb of vram is very fustrating.

Dear god this.

Me: I bet I can just crank all the graphics up on this old game!
Neverwinter Nights: No way dude! You need one of the new Voodoo cards to have water reflections! Yours isn't powerful enough.

[Azated]

Highschool I.T classes were horrible for me. I'd already spent most of my life gaming by that point, so my fingers naturally sat on WASD, space, and shift. I was almost failed because "I wasn't typing properly". Apparently speed and precision only mattered if you did it her way.

[Mrnocamera]

First test I took at highschool.  How it went:

Me:  *Finishing last fifteen words at one hundred WPM*

Teacher: Remember, take your time, none of you are likely to know all of the positions of the keys.

Me:  And... Finished!

Teacher: *Silence*

And after the test, I got a F.   A fucking F