Keyboard shortcuts change

Hi,

I haven't found a thread/post about this (which is good but makes me a tad uncomfortable :-] ), so here goes:
playing my first game, huge galaxy with abundant habitable planets & running the latest patch, I encountered the following problem:

I use the numpad to move my ships around (so Numlock off). This worked fine, until today: all of a sudden, using the keys in the numpad not only moves my ships around, but also changes the zoom on the main map. This goes on for a few minutes (a keystroke changes the zoom only in small increments), then in one keystroke I zoom out so far the entire galaxy becomes a small point in the middle. I cannot zoom in again, at least it seems like it - pressing the zoom-key (+) for one minute doesn't produce any change.

Now the first time I encountered this problem, I had been playing for a few hours (great game btw, cheers!) Loading the save did not solve the problem (the map would stay zoomed out). Exiting the game, restarting and loading the save does, even if I use a savegame with the map zoomed out. However, the problem will reappear after 5-15 minutes.
This is my first game, so I assume it has something to do with the progress of the game.

Any ideas/Suggestions?
Corwin
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Reply #1 Top
Nasty.. Please be patient, i amsure one of the tech crew will help you as soon as possible. However the guys only work Mon -Fri so wont be today im affraid..

DG
Reply #2 Top
No problem, I would be surprised otherwise!

After posting this I finally found the In-game bug thread. I posted again there along with my basic specs & the debug.err.

Sorry for the double post :-]
Reply #3 Top
What kind of Keyboard do you have? If its one of the fancy multimedia types where you can customise the extra buttons it could be the driver thats at fault. An updated driver (if available) my be worth a shot.
Reply #5 Top
My keyboard is a standard issue DELL-keyboard (AZERTY), nothing fancy there

Mouse scroll didn't work initially, but changing it in the setup (Logitech) to middle button allowed me to use it as such.

Corwin