Character Auto-Run Bug

[drosselli]

Hi,

I'm currently playing Space Age, but this issue started before I installed the DLC.

Increasingly often, while running around my base, my character will suddenly continue moving in one direction as if a movement key is stuck. I completely lose control and can't get my character to stop. The only way I've found to recover is to mash the movement keys (W, A, S, and D) repeatedly until it eventually stops.

At first I thought it was a hardware issue with my keyboard, but I've tested with a different keyboard and experienced the exact same behavior. The problem has become more frequent over time, and the periods where I regain control are getting shorter. At this point it's becoming almost game-breaking, as I'm constantly fighting this "auto-run" behavior.

Has anyone else experienced this, or is there a known fix? I'm happy to provide additional information, including my mod list, save file, or system details if that would help troubleshoot the issue.

Thanks!

[robot256]

Normally when I hear something like this, it has to do with holding the movement keys when opening a GUI panel for something, or alt-tabbing to another program. I've never heard of it latching the movement keys while you are doing nothing but watch your character move.

Is this in single player mode? Have you checked what your FPS/UPS stats are when it happens?

[drosselli]

Thank you. Ill check these scenarios a bit more and report back.

[ferrybig]

I noticed this rarely happens if my laptop gets really hot and triggers a reset for the keyboard controller.

The system never sees a key release event, so it keeps saying to applications a key is being held. Putting my laptop in sleep mode then back out fixes it.

Factorio is the only game that puts a lot of pressure on the CPU memory bus, causing heating in the wrong place

[drosselli]

Thank you for that. Maybe that's it, but I can't imagine that e're the only ones exeriencing this. I gave up one ay because it got worse and worse to the point that it became umplayable. I deleted the app and reinstalled and that seemd to help if for a bit, but it's starting to deo it again. I dont even have to be touching the keyboard and it just suddently goes. Would love to know if the dev team has found anything.

[drosselli]

Normally when I hear something like this, it has to do with holding the movement keys when opening a GUI panel for something, or alt-tabbing to another program. I've never heard of it latching the movement keys while you are doing nothing but watch your character move.

Is this in single player mode? Have you checked what your FPS/UPS stats are when it happens?

It seems random and can happen without even interacting with the game. I sit back and I think about layouts while I sater at it, then suddently it starts going and I have to start mashing keys to make it stop... ugh. I don't think the FPS changes. Yes, single player.

[robot256]

Grasping at straws here, but there was a recent report about numpads having a problem because the USB controller on the motherboard was resetting. A problem with the computer itself might explain why it happens with multiple keyboards. Can you try with a different kind of keyboard, like Bluetooth instead of USB? Or start the game with no keyboard attached and just watch it for a while?

[drosselli]

Hi-

So far I jave tried multiple bluetooth keyboards - and then other times I just use the macbook keyboard with no external. I can try and let it go and watcvh for a while and see if it triggers the affect. I was going to upload a video but wasn't able to in the past.