Pressing ESC ingame brings up the menu, wich I cannot escape into the game again from

(olinn) #1

Hi!

I’m trying out brink during the free weekend, but I’ve encountered a bug that is seriously hampering my planning of buying the game.

I have a Asus N53SV-X1 laptop with a Geforce 540M card, I updated to the latest nvidia driver before playing.

Once I join a game, I can play just fine, however if I press ESC to bring up the menu, I cannot return to the game? Pressing ESC again does nothing and I’m just stuck in the menu…

Please advise!

Intel i7 2.0ghz - 4gb ram, geforce 540m windows 7 home 64bit , latest nvidia mobile driver
Never had any issues with games so far.

(FireWorks) #2

Holy ****… never heard of that before…

ESC should brink up the same menu as L does. Try L to kill it again.

(olinn) #3

Tried it… to no avail :frowning:

L is default for spawn menu ? It wasnt bound when I started so I put it at M, but pressing it does nothing. Tried pressing ALL the buttons on the keyboard actually… still just menuing it up :frowning:

(FireWorks) #4

Did you try to reset the controls to default?

(FireWorks) #5

Put that in your autoexec. these are the default settings.


bind "w" "_forward" "" "default"
bind "s" "_back" "" "default"
bind "a" "_moveleft" "" "default"
bind "d" "_moveright" "" "default"
bind "SPACE" "_moveup" "" "default"
bind "c" "_movedown" "" "default"
bind "q" "_peekleft" "" "default"
bind "e" "_peekright" "" "default"
bind "SHIFT" "_sprint" "" "default"
bind "1" "_weapon0" "" "default"
bind "2" "_weapon1" "" "default"
bind "3" "_activateContext1" "" "default"
bind "4" "_activateContext2" "" "default"
bind "5" "_activateContext3" "" "default"
bind "g" "_useGrenade" "" "default"
bind "MOUSE1" "_attack" "" "default"
bind "MOUSE2" "_altattack" "" "default"
bind "MWHEELDOWN" "_weapprev" "" "default"
bind "MWHEELUP" "_weapnext" "" "default"
bind "r" "_reload" "" "default"
bind "f" "_activate" "" "default"
bind "x" "_selfInteract" "" "default"
bind "v" "_meleeAttack" "" "default"
bind "F1" "_limbomenushortcut" "" "default"
bind "MOUSE3" "_taskMenu" "" "default"
bind "l" "_limbomenu" "" "default"
bind "t" "clientMessageMode" "" "default"
bind "y" "clientMessageMode 1" "" "default"
bind "u" "clientMessageMode 2" "" "default"
bind "i" "_fireteamVoice" "" "default"
bind "o" "_voice" "" "default"
bind "F3" "_ready" "" "default"
bind "TAB" "_showScores" "" "default"
bind "F11" "screenshot" "" "default"
bind "ESCAPE" "_menuCancel" "" "menu"
bind "ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "menu"
bind "ENTER" "_menuNewline" "CTRL" "menu"
bind "ENTER" "_menuNewline" "RIGHTCTRL" "menu"
bind "KP_ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "menu"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "_menuNavForward" "" "menu"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "_menuEvent3" "SHIFT" "menu"
bind "UPARROW" "_menuNavCategoryUp" "" "menu"
bind "LEFTARROW" "_menuNavBackward" "" "menu"
bind "LEFTARROW" "_menuEvent4" "SHIFT" "menu"
bind "DOWNARROW" "_menuNavCategoryDown" "" "menu"
bind "CTRL" "_menuEvent1" "" "menu"
bind "TAB" "_menuEvent3" "" "menu"
bind "ESCAPE" "_menuCancel" "" "bindmenu"
bind "ESCAPE" "_menuCancel" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "ENTER" "_menuNewline" "CTRL" "menu_limbo"
bind "ENTER" "_menuNewline" "RIGHTCTRL" "menu_limbo"
bind "KP_ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "_menuNavForward" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "UPARROW" "_menuNavCategoryUp" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "LEFTARROW" "_menuNavBackward" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "DOWNARROW" "_menuNavCategoryDown" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "CTRL" "_menuEvent1" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "TAB" "_menuEvent3" "" "menu_limbo"
bind "TAB" "_menuEvent4" "SHIFT" "menu_limbo"
bind "ESCAPE" "_menuCancel" "" "radialmenu"
bind "ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "radialmenu"
bind "KP_ENTER" "_menuAccept" "" "radialmenu"
bind "SPACE" "_menuAccept" "" "radialmenu"
bind "MOUSE1" "_menuAccept" "" "radialmenu"
bind "MOUSE2" "_menuCancel" "" "radialmenu"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "_menuNavForward" "" "menu_incap"
bind "LEFTARROW" "_menuNavBackward" "" "menu_incap"

I assume you screwed your binds somehow so rebinding all above would be good. These here should be the responsible ones for your error:
bind “ESCAPE” “_menuCancel” “” “menu”
bind “ESCAPE” “_menuCancel” “” “bindmenu”
bind “ESCAPE” “_menuCancel” “” “menu_limbo”
bind “ESCAPE” “_menuCancel” “” “radialmenu”

How got create an autoexec?
Go to the brink settings directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\RANDOMNUMBERS\22350\local\base

Create a text file and write the commands in it. Rename the file autoexec.cfg, make sure you change the actual type of the file into .cfg.

(olinn) #6

Thanks a billion!
I actually never fiddled with any of the configs, the game just installed wrong or something, but I put that stuff in the autoexec and it works like a charm! (btw top stuff using C as crouch! :slight_smile: