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Spacebar not working in game chat.

• FireGuy1944 25 Posts

  Wed, Sep 24 2014 9:44 PM

  I have a brand new keyboard and as you can see by reading this my spacebar works fine, but in game chat it will not work, I have to use dashes.  It used to work at first but then stopped for some reason. What can I do to fix that?

   

  Thanks.

• 2,840 Posts

  Wed, Sep 24 2014 11:29 PM

  FireGuy1944:

  I have a brand new keyboard and as you can see by reading this my spacebar works fine, but in game chat it will not work, I have to use dashes.  It used to work at first but then stopped for some reason. What can I do to fix that?

   

  Thanks.

  I would try a different browser.  I believe it is chrome that this issue pops up with.  Something to do with their pepperflash.

   

  - WGTdbloshoe

   

• DodgyPutter 4,690 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 12:23 AM

  FireGuy1944:

  I have a brand new keyboard and as you can see by reading this my spacebar works fine, but in game chat it will not work, I have to use dashes.  It used to work at first but then stopped for some reason. What can I do to fix that?

  I had that, I'm on chrome and it was the pepperflash.  I think I found out how to fix it from one of the many excellent tips/explanations from Scotthope, but I can't find it.

  Roughly, go into chrome and type chrome:plugins into your search box. Click on it and check your shockwave flash, I had two and needed to disable the pepperflash for this game to run smoothly. I need to switch back for other sites though as they seem to want the pepperflash.

  I'd wait a wee while though maybe Scott will see this thread and put up a link to his much better explanation.  

• ScottHope 10,626 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 1:21 AM

  Cheers Dodgy. If you are using Chrome FireGuy I would suggest updating your flashplayer and as Dodgy suggested, check that you only have one active flashplayer in Chrome, Pepperflash works for some and Adobe works for others, doesn't matter which one you go with as long as you have only one of them enabled. Click HERE for instructions.

  If you are using Internet Explorer then probably the best remedy is to change to another browser, lots to choose from.

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 3:28 AM

  FireGuy1944:

  I have a brand new keyboard and as you can see by reading this my spacebar works fine, but in game chat it will not work, I have to use dashes.  It used to work at first but then stopped for some reason. What can I do to fix that?

  Thanks.

  Try Comodo Dragon. with that browser you do not need to fix anything concerning flash and meter behaves nice & smooth for the most.

  .....and no more problems with the space bar ;-)

  Eric

• ScottHope 10,626 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 10:52 AM

  Doesn't Comodo Dragon use Pepperflash too?  It's very similar to Chrome.

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 11:54 AM

  ScottHope:

  Doesn't Comodo Dragon use Pepperflash too?  It's very similar to Chrome.

  It does but you do not need to activate or deactivate anything.

  Eric

• FireGuy1944 25 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 5:14 PM

  Im using IE on Windows 8.1 pro.

  Everything else works fine but that bloody spacebar.  Is FireFox a better option? 

• 2,840 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 10:43 PM

  FireGuy1944:

  Im using IE on Windows 8.1 pro.

  Everything else works fine but that bloody spacebar.  Is FireFox a better option? 

  Yes it would be, you can also try updating your IE browser.  I believe they are up to 11.0 now.

   

  - WGTdbloshoe

• alosso 21,092 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 11:03 PM

  ScottHope:

  If you are using Internet Explorer then probably the best remedy is to change to another browser, lots to choose from.

  Do it, FireGuy!

  Maxthon 3 is another frequent proposal, and Firefox is working quite o.k. for me.