Weird Keyboard Unresponsiveness

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So I got a new computer the other day and installed icewind dale 2 and went to play it. (It's a laptop running vista, a dual core processor, not sure what else off the top of my head).

The touchpad works completely, but my keyboard seems to be selectively unresponsive. The esc key works every time I press it, but every other key has to be mashed repeatedly and only responds randomly. I can't find any information about this happening anywhere, and the keyboard works fine with everything else on the computer- any ideas?

 

I had a slower computer that tried to run IWD2. Hitting space to pause was a nightmare. The only thing I could really do was clear out some background jobs. Not sure if that'll help much.

 

My laptop keyboard didnt work great either. My laptop was a Dell Latitude D620. I even had an external keyboard connected via USB - a logitech - and it barely worked. Couldnt play the game. The keyboard worked fine in BG2.

Its a known problem with the game, some forums suggested that you disable your touchpad when a mouse was present, didnt help for me.

Sucks, because I could handle typing slower for a characters name. But for combat, no spacebar? not playable.

Now I have my desktop, it should work fine.

 

The game should be playable without spacebar in combat. You can use autopause or click with the mouse onto the spinning globe in order to pause the game.

 

I've been looking all over for a solution to this, I've seen tons of posts with people that have this issue but no easy solutions anywhere, must be some incompatibility hidden deep down. Like all the other posts, I'm on a laptop, specifically a Dell 600m laptop. Dell laptops especially seem to be plagued with this issue, although I've seen Viao complaints too.

Sucks, since sure the game is playable when you have to mash every key 10 times to register, but who wants to do that the whole game? That means every time you want to go to inventory, go to spellbook unpause after an autopause etc.

I did notice a post back in 05 where someone seemed to have success after completely rebuilding their laptop and installing a different antivirus software and not installing some mouse drivers. Anyone have this issue and have success with anything OTHER than a complete reinstall of their os?

edit: I just noticed that if you hold down a key when typing in a name etc, it will respond eventually (aaaaaaaaaaaa) but when the letter is scrolling across the name entry it will do so in spurts, almost as if hitting a key is slowing down the game tremendously. I don't notice any slowdown whatsoever ingame though. Specs: 1.5 ghz, 1gb ram, radeon 9000 mobile vcard

 

I had exactly the same problem on a dell latitude d430. I tried updating and reinstalling a bunch of drivers. The keyboard worked after reinstalling several drivers using the files from the dell support website. I can;t be sure which one it was but I am guessing it was reinstalling the touchpad driver that did the trick.

Keyboard works just fine now!

 

Just installed IWD2 on my six-month-old Lenovo ThinkPad R61 running XP SP2. I've got this problem and man is it irritating; the game may be playable, but barely. Never encountered it on either of my old desktops (c. 2002-03, WinXP). This is the fourth forum I've visited regarding this issue and the problem seems endemic to laptops. Odd.

I've tried all the easy and obvious stuff. Well, guess I'll try to install some (new) drivers. Joy.

 

My IBM and home PC have a slight delay after cutscreens, which is annoying. It won't register if I press immediately after dialogue, but one second later it's OK. The codes don't seem to run quite as smoothly as BG2.
But I haven't experienced any of the more serious problems mentioned. Try to shut off any running programs, especially internet stuff like download managers. And check the Taskmanager to see how much your memory and processor are being taxed.

 

I'm glad somebody posted this, I was going to put IWD2 on my laptop today! Don't think I'll bother now

 

You should at least give it a try - maybe you won't encounter these problems...

 

I'm inherently lazy

 

I'm floored--installing new drivers for my ThinkPad has actually resolved this problem. No more keyboard mashing necessary! Not sure which driver(s) did the trick, as I downloaded some 20+ drivers and system files (totalling ~500 MB). Perhaps the navpad was the culprit after all. All I know is, after installing those, every keyboard command works perfectly now.

Next up: figuring out what's up with DLTCEP and the missing .ids and .tlk files. Blech.