ESC key not recognised by games

Programming
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I have an Atreus, with the Esc key mapped using Chrysalis exactly as it was when it came out of the box. I’m on a Windows machine using a UK Keyboard layout.

The Esc key seems to work fine in Windows, but isn’t recognised at all in games (I have several that do the same thing - GTA V, Epistory, Fortnite). I have no idea what could be different, since I didn’t think that Esc was a key that was different between regional layouts or anything! The key just does nothing at all - as though it weren’t bound to anything.

I haven’t found any other keys that have this problem, and in most games I’m able to use P to pause and bring up the menu, but for a few of them I’m having to plug in another keyboard just to be able to press Esc!

Any ideas?

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Have you tried to add some Esc key elsewhere on the keyboard ? (Dumb idea, but who knows ?)

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(Not a dumb idea at all, grateful for any ideas!)

Yeah, I actually started with it mapped on a different layer, and ended up moving it back to the original layer to try and rule that out. :slightly_frowning_face: