TF2 - e and f keys spamming

Captain Ashton

Captain Ashton

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EDIT: well with christmas upon us I have recieved a new computer with a brand new keyboard which of course resolved the problem. Thanks to everyone who posted.

For some reason when I've been playing recently, whenever I press any key, the computer thinks i've pressed the e or f key as well. For example when I press W to move forward to move, my character suddenly spams medic constantly. The spam of e's and f's seem to be triggered by nearly every key on my keyboard. This hasn't happened anywhere else on my computer so its definatly TF2 related. Its really getting annoying as I cannot type any console commands without having loads of e's or f's chucked between each letter. Has anyone got any idea what might be wrong? Its making it impossible for me to admin on the servers properly.

So far I've tried the following:
- Recconected to the servers
- Restarted the game
- Bashed the e and f keys a bit

Nothing I've tried so far has done anything. Help would be really apprechiated.
 
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Thanks Diamond, so far it seems to have worked. If i post here again then its gone wrong again. If I don't make another post then its fixed.
 
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Mine did this once. The problem was water in the keyboard. I'm not joking. I had just cleaned it and a couple drops got down into the printed circuit traces and were wreaking havoc. After I took the keyboard apart to have a look (I thought something was physically broken) the problem was obvious. A couple soft wipes with a paper towel and all was good again.
 
Ok, Diamonds idea didn't work. I'm going to try cleaning my keyboard but I don't think that will help. The e and f key spam only happens whilst i'm in TF2. Nowhere else. If anyone else has any ideas they'd be much apprechiated.
 
Its a Logitech keyboard. I can't give more info than that. I don't know much about technical computer things.
 
Only happens in game? Weird. If you know anything about configs you could dig through yours and check for erroneous keybinds. Otherwise you could try that "Restore defaults" button.
 
Captain Ashton said:
For some reason when I've been playing recently, whenever I press any key, the computer thinks i've pressed the e or f key as well. For example when I press W to move forward to move, my character suddenly spams medic constantly. The spam of e's and f's seem to be triggered by nearly every key on my keyboard. This hasn't happened anywhere else on my computer so its definatly TF2 related. Its really getting annoying as I cannot type any console commands without having loads of e's or f's chucked between each letter. Has anyone got any idea what might be wrong? Its making it impossible for me to admin on the servers properly.

So far I've tried the following:
- Recconected to the servers
- Restarted the game
- Bashed the e and f keys a bit

Nothing I've tried so far has done anything. Help would be really apprechiated.
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Do you or have you ever downloaded any "skin's/mods etc" for TF2 the most likely culprit is that you downloaded something that is TF2 related and it had a config file in it that is messing with your config file (maliciously) people do this because they think its funny. I'v also connected to a couple of servers that allowed the admins to change key binds (in CSS though don't know bout TF2) but that has happend.

Try opening the game going to the keyboard button layout and hitting "reset to default" that should help. Although if you use the arrow keys or some other configuration then the WASD standard you'll have to rebind them, all of them....including admin quick keys.
 
A re-install is always an option now that you mention it is only in game.
 
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