Guild Wars 2

It’s not a new bug, I’ve experienced this since day 1 and I’m surprised it’s still here. In the past I didn’t give it too much importance because it was happening rarely. In the last few months though it is happening much more frequently, like 2-3 times in each pvp game.

When I press Alt + some key to use a skill and then release the Alt key, the game ignores the fact that I released the Alt key. In the past this was much harder to notice because Alt wasn’t causing the Player name to show up. Now it’s easier to see when it happens because the Player name shows up and doesn’t go away until I press Alt again to fix the problem.

Have you checked to see if your stick keys are enabled? I’ve never seen or heard of this and this kind of bug is more related to your OS then the game, since the game is not whats seeing what keys are being pressed, your I/O in the main OS is simply sending that to the game.

That and you may need to clean your keyboard, check to see if you have macros if you have a programmable keyboard/mouse and also try using a different USB port, I know mine has an issue with 1 of my ports that causes something weird when its used for my mouse, sometimes they simply go bad.

Sticky keys is disabled, the keyboard is clean. I don’t use macros but it made me think that I use Autohotkey to disable Alt-Tab since I was hitting it accidentally sometimes. I’ll try to close Autohotkey and see if the problem persists, even though I remember having this problem even before I started using Autohotkey.

Another thing came to mind: sometimes when I press ‘W and D’ or ‘W and A’ to move diagonally (A and D are strafe for me, not turning) and then release the keys my character still moves to the left or to the right until I press the corresponding key again.

By the way I do play other games but I only have this problems with GW2. I play GW2 a lot more than the other games though.

Thanks for your help.

Did you check if you have “trigger sticky keys after pressing shift five times”? You might be accidentally enabling the ‘feature’ and disabling — that would explain why it’s intermittent, why it only affects the game you play the most, and why it was disabled when you last checked.

It’s also possible that AutoHotKey is also doing something that would trigger it, so temporarily disabling it is a good troubleshooting idea. Although, since you don’t always have the issue, it might take a while to rule it out.

For what it’s worth: I don’t know of anyone else who has reported an issue with a sticky alt key nor have I seen it reported here or on Reddit.

Good luck and please let us know what you find out.