If i press and HOLD the KEYS DSG or ASX at the same time, nothing happens. In comparison: If i press and hold ASD I'll get something like asddddddddddddddddddddddddd in e.g. Open Office Word. And that is what should happen when i press and hold dsq but which does not. It's annoying when I play World of Warcraft. I can't trigger an ability that is keybinded to Q, if I'm already holding down S and D.
I've heard that it has nothing to do with the KEYBOARD itself. And I'm playing on a laptop so changing keyboard is not an option I guess.

My question is: Is there a way to fix this? If so, how do I fix it? Quote from: Kubrak on May 14, 2010, 10:55:09 AM

If i press and hold the keys DSG or ASX at the same time, nothing happens. In comparison: If i press and hold ASD I'll get something like asddddddddddddddddddddddddd in e.g. Open Office Word. And that is what should happen when i press and hold dsq but which does not. It's annoying when I play World of Warcraft. I can't trigger an ability that is keybinded to Q, if I'm already holding down S and D.
I've heard that it has nothing to do with the keyboard itself. And I'm playing on a laptop so changing keyboard is not an option I guess.

My question is: Is there a way to fix this? If so, how do I fix it?

Some low-quality keyboards suffer problems with rollover (that is, when multiple keys are pressed in quick succession); some types of keyboard circuitry will register a maximum number of keys at one time. This is undesirable for games (designed for multiple keypresses) and undesirable for extremely fast typing (hitting new keys before the fingers can release previous keys). A common side effect of this shortcoming is called "phantom key blocking": on some keyboards, pressing three keys simultaneously sometimes resulted in a 4th keypress being registered.

Modern keyboards prevent this from happening by blocking the 3rd key in certain key combinations, but while this PREVENTS phantom input, it also means that when two keys are depressed simultaneously, MANY of the other keys on the keyboard will not respond until one of the two depressed keys is lifted. With better keyboards designs, this seldom happens in office programs, but it remains a problem in games even on expensive keyboards, due to wildly different and/or configurable key/command layouts in different games.