Guild Wars 2

As of two days ago, my Escape key does absolutely nothing in this game (and only in this game, it functions as normal everywhere else). It doesn’t bring up the game menu, which is only a small hassle, but much more importantly it doesn’t close any other in-game menus, or dialogues, or the world map, or trade windows, etc. You never really realize how much you use this key for these things until it stops working.

“Disable closing windows with ESC” is not ticked; a topic from a while ago recommended enabling this option, relogging, and disabling it again, which I have tried. This did happen to me once before but it went away after about a day; no such luck this time. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Cavalcante.6789:

As of two days ago, my Escape key does absolutely nothing in this game (and only in this game, it functions as normal everywhere else). It doesn’t bring up the game menu, which is only a small hassle, but much more importantly it doesn’t close any other in-game menus, or dialogues, or the world map, or trade windows, etc. You never really realize how much you use this key for these things until it stops working.

“Disable closing windows with ESC” is not ticked; a topic from a while ago recommended enabling this option, relogging, and disabling it again, which I have tried. This did happen to me once before but it went away after about a day; no such luck this time. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Try deleting the local.dat file which can be found in your user documents under a directory named something along the lines of ‘Guild Wars 2’.

This file typically holds user settings and is known to cause all assortments of problems. I would try this and see what happens (this will reset some of your settings in game).

Thanks for the suggestion, but no dice :/

Cavalcante.6789:

Thanks for the suggestion, but no dice :/

Is there a keyboard setting for closing all windows in the controls settings? I would double check thakittens been a really long time since I have been in the controls settings.

I would also try to repair the client.

There is a setting in the options panel to have esc close windows in game or not. If that is disabled, esc will pull up the system options (option, report a bug, log out, etc).

If that doesnt fix it, test your esc key in another program, it coud be your keyboard or region setting or something.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Cavalcante.6789:

Thanks for the suggestion, but no dice :/

Is there a keyboard setting for closing all windows in the controls settings? I would double check thakittens been a really long time since I have been in the controls settings.

I would also try to repair the client.

There’s no setting for this in-game that I saw, BUT repairing the client seems to have worked. Thanks!