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[hurleybird]

Just downloaded the game, I got all up to the point with the "welcome to the alpha of dwarf fortress" message pops up, and says "press escape to continue. I press escape. Nothing happens. If I mash every key on the keyboard I eventually get to the "moving records" screen, so it's not frozen. Weird.

[hurleybird]

And no, my escape key works fine. ALT-escape still work swimmingly for minimizing windows.

[Medicine Man]

Press enter. That works for me.

[hurleybird]

Negative. Enter will get me out of the "about DF" screen (although escape will not). Enter will not get me out of the "welcome to the alpha of DF" screen.

[Medicine Man]

That's really weird...

[hurleybird]

On screen keyboard also does not work.

[Jake]

It takes a while on some systems. Don't worry too much.

[hurleybird]

I have a Core I7 clocked at 3.8GHz. And escape isn't working to get out of the "about DF" page. And I've waited quite awhile.

EDIT: ...and it just started working after I closed everything else I had open. Very odd.

[ZhangC1459]

I have a Core I7 clocked at 3.8GHz. And escape isn't working to get out of the "about DF" page. And I've waited quite awhile.

EDIT: ...and it just started working after I closed everything else I had open. Very odd.

This is where someone who knows something about computers (not me) quotes the oft-repeated fact about DF being single-threaded or something.

[Virex]

An I7 is still a very awesome processor, even if you only use one of the 4.

[BrakArg]

Maybe the key config is different.

Try changing the interface.txt in the init folder of your game with the original df's one.


you started talking about cpus.

[Dral]

I have a Core I7 clocked at 3.8GHz. And escape isn't working to get out of the "about DF" page. And I've waited quite awhile.

EDIT: ...and it just started working after I closed everything else I had open. Very odd.

This is more of a guess than anything else but have you tried fiddling with your print mode? What you say you've experienced sounds like it could be the screen occasionally not updating correctly. If so, it could look like the game sometimes ignores your input.

[Ampersand]

My suspicion is that he has a non-US Keyboard.

[Ethicalfive]

The OP mentions "very odd" that it works now that he/she has closed off all the other programs that are running. If any of them are RAM intensive, then this could well explain what is happening, and while it feels like it isn't accepting your input, it probably did and is slowly loading(due to having all your other processes fighting for RAM). Maybe there should be a load bar or spinning load /,|,\ altinating thing so that some people arnt like "OMG, stupid game *bash face against hard surface*"