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    Green Chinese at top left during games...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by FlickerEis, Nov 4, 2009.

  1. FlickerEis

    FlickerEis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not sure if this is an ASUS issue or Vista crap what, but it's really irritating.

    Occasionally when I'm playing games (Crysis & Call of Duty 4) my keyboard stops working normally. Instead of their usual functions, most keys I press turn into bright green chinese characters that appear in a bar at the top-left hand corner of my screen. I can ALT-TAB out and such, but the only way I know to turn it off is to exit the game entirely.

    I feel like it's some combination I hit that brings up a chinese language tool, but I have no idea how or why I'd have that. I thought it was Crysis only until it just happened in COD4.

    Needless to say, it's really irritating when you're in an intense firefight and all of a sudden you stop moving and get lines of asian characters instead. Blah!

    Any ideas?
     
    FlickerEis, Nov 4, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Go to Control Panel > Regional/Language options. Make sure that all shortcuts are disabled. I believe by default, Ctrl+Shift switches languages, or Alt+Shift, or something like that.
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 4, 2009
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  3. MidnightSun

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    The language toggle is by default Alt+Shift. If you have no use for the language tool, go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change Keyboards and just remove the foreign languages.

    If you are like me and do use Chinese IME, yet it always gets accidentally activated, go to the Advanced Key Settings tab and turn off or change your hotkeys.
     
    MidnightSun, Nov 4, 2009
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  4. Histidine

    Histidine Notebook Deity

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    Maybe the North Koreans from Crysis are hacking your computer :)
     
    Histidine, Nov 4, 2009
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  5. surfasb

    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    :laugh:

    It reminds me of C&C:Generals
     
    surfasb, Nov 5, 2009
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  6. Amnesiac

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    Ugh, if that's what the Koreans can do, then imagine what the aliens would do. Send you a virus that makes your computer explode?
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 5, 2009
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  7. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    No, they'd cause your system to "freeze".

    /punsplosion
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 5, 2009
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  8. Amnesiac

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    Lol, that actually really made me laugh.
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 9, 2009
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