Tankstick...Shift or CTRL appears to get stuck

[swindmiller]

I have a tankstick and have been having a problem with the first 4 buttons. I am sure you already know the first four buttons are mapped to CTRL, ALT, Space and Shift. For most games it's not a problem but some PC games (driving games in particular) where I am holding a button in seem to cause the problem. I recenty moved the button which is mapped to Shift to a different location where it would not be held and now I have the problem with ctrl. I realized I had the problem because I hit a button that was assigned to Escape and the windows menu popped up I know I can switch to a different mode and re-assign the buttons but would have to set the mode EVERYTIME I rebooted the arcade.
Should I just replace the internal board with an I-Pac2?

Does anyone else have their keys mapped to CTRL, ALT, Space and Shift and does it cause a problem?

On a side note, just this weekend I am having a problem with the left and right mouse buttons. I press of left or right button and it triggers both buttons being pressed at the same time. This was verified with the Passmark keyboard utility.


Thanks,
Scott

[BadMouth]

google how to disable hotkeys in your version of windows.  That will help with a lot of the issues.

I remapped my tankstick to not use those buttons since some other emulators can't use them.
It's a bit of a pain with the tankstick, as you have to press the button on the back twice to load the alternate settings each time the computer is started up.

[swindmiller]

Thanks for the reply.

I don't have sticky or filter keys on but all I can find about disabling hotkeys has to do with the WIN key. Is there something else that pertains to the CTRL or SHIFT keys or is this what you meant? I am using Win7 64bit BTW.

I was using the 2nd mode on the tankstick before but my wife and kid kept forgetting to push the back button. I am using Hyperspin and am using AHK to remap those buttons for every emulator but just recently when playing PC games and holding in SHIFT or ALT sometimes causes a problem. The button still works in the game as remapped but even though ALT is remapped to T in the game I assume Windows still sees the button as being ALT and held down.
Did you have any of these issues before you re-programed the tankstick?

What I may do is temporarily re-program the tankstick and if I don't have any of these problems I may buy the I-PAC2 so the "mode" button on the back will not be an issue.

What I don't want to do is waste money on the ipac and have the same problems.