Keyboard not working/responding in X3-AP through Steam. (System Restore to get back)

[Veskandar]

The game is not accepting keyboard commands at all, not even ESC to skip the intro.
It's working perfectly with X3-TC, just not with X3-AP
It worked normally earlyer today but after installing XRM and than removing it stopped so I'm guessing it's a reg key or a setup file I can't find

I deleted the addon folder and than verify integrity, did not work
I deleted the entire X3 folder and verifyed, did not work
Drivers are up to date or else it would not work in TC

PS it's not a wireless keyboard

[Veskandar]

Full uninstall and reinstall

X3-TC works
X3-AP does not

[CBJ]

Try going to your "Documents\Egosoft\X3AP\profiles" folder and deleting any ".xpf" files that you find there.

[Veskandar]

C:\Users\name\Documents\Egosoft\X3AP

is already empty

[Alan Phipps]

You are not the first to find an issue with Steam X3AP patches and mods interacting and affecting the keyboard. A system restore to before the messing about with the mods or the update fixed this one.

[Veskandar]

I'd rather not do a system restore, as that would not shine a light on the real issue

[CBJ]

Well the problem here is that we have no control over, nor really even any way of knowing, what the mod does that triggers the problem. Clearly it's something the game itself doesn't set up, otherwise uninstalling and reinstalling should have fixed it. You may have to contact the mod's author(s) to try and find out.

One other question: when you uninstalled and reinstalled did you just let the installer remove the files or did you manually delete the game folder? The reason I ask is that if you let the installer do it then any files it didn't know about, i.e. ones put there by the mod, would quite probably still be there after the reinstall.

[Veskandar]

I copy/pasted the entire X folder to a diferent location than applied the mod to that
also had the no-steam exe on that
that folder is gone now

[Veskandar]

Uninstalled both TC and AP, manually removed all reg keys cuz the uninstaller does not.
downloading now.

[Veskandar]

Nothing worked so had to do the last option, system restore 2 days back

Fixed now, but could not find out what the real problem was

[Alan Phipps]

I would guess it was messing with the mod and game files coinciding with the recent Steam 2.1 update to X3AP that caused things to go badly wrong.