Trouble while gaming

I have a bit of a problem when I hit the caps lock it shows a little message in the lower right hand corner of the desktop telling me its on or off. So while gaming this cause the screen to flash Any fixes? Thanks!

 

44 views n no help cmon now. This is becoming a real pain any ideas?

 

Don't hit the caps lock.

 

LOL, that's one solution.

Open task manager, go to the processes tab and see if there's an osd.exe process. Make sure you've clicked "show processes from all users". If it osd.exe exists, you can try to kill it. Not sure what other repercussions doing so might have.

OSD.exe info can be found here.

 

LOL !!! that makes me laugh out loud wahaha....

Anyways, there is someone having this problem too... not only u.. i dont know how to fix because i dont have the problem... yet..

 

Try to disable as much background apps as possible.
Do you encounter any problem hitting the Caps Lock when not in games?

 

Sometimes when playing Lord of the Rings Online, when I hit caps lock, the whole client shifts into the top left quarter segment of my screen...it's really weird o.0

 

when i play crysis and press the caps lock the game goes into windowed mode

 

Your answer was already posted, disable the osd.exe process as that is what displays the "Caps Lock: ON" "Caps Lock: OFF" notification. It's Alienware's On Screen Display. Keep in mind this will also disable notifications of your volume control and wifi control when you use your control panel just above your numpad.

Aedaric

 

I was just looking at this and I'm not seeing that status message when depressing the CAPS LOCK key. Can anyone on Vista confirm they are seeing it as well? Odd. I haven't disabled any of the OSD components so that wouldn't be a reason for me not to see it. Hmmmm...

 

Your answer was already posted, disable the osd.exe process as that is what displays the "Caps Lock: ON" "Caps Lock: OFF" notification. It's Alienware's On Screen Display. Keep in mind this will also disable notifications of your volume control and wifi control when you use your control panel just above your numpad.

Aedaric

 

Yah I did that but it did nothing. Thanks though, just dont know . It did it when I first received the laptop then stopped n now its back N the caps lock is kinda important gaming.

 

Ok so found out what it was, its the BTTray in the processes. I ended the process and it stopped But what else does this do and how do I stop it n not have to end the process everytime I start the puter up. Thanks!

Ok got its the bluetooth software I just uninstalled it seeing how I dont use any bluetooth device, problem solved Sweet! N it only happened when I played COD4. Thanks for all the help!

 

Open up MSCONFIG or use CCleaner and disable it (BTTray.exe) from launching at startup. I have it disabled as I consider it unecessary for my situation. It is your BlueTooth Task Tray icon. If you want to access BT functions, just use the control panel.

Leave OSD alone. Its not necessary to disable it as you have found what is responsible - why I don't see that CAPS Lock message, since I have BTTray disabled on startup.