Hello everyone!
I’ve got an issue that doesn’t affect only WoW, so I’m posting it here in the hope for some help.
Basically, using the FN button for media controls (for example to skip a track in Spotify) sometimes locks out other shortcuts such as ALT+Tab - but not everytime. This then lasts for a few minutes, and I can’t figure out what causes it or how to resolve it. The keys themselves still work, so in WoW I can still use Tab to select a new target or use Alt+1 and the like to cast abilites, I just can’t Alt+Tab into Windows.
This started happening a few weeks back and I first thought it was a result of my old keyboard slowly dying (a few other buttons slowly became less responsive), but after replacing the membrane Thermaltake one with a mechanical Logitech keyboard the same still happens. Both keyboards used different F-keys for the media control, on the Thermaltake it was FN+F1 to F5, on the Logitech G413 now it’s FN+F7 to F12.
I don’t have any software for the keyboard installed, I do have the Razer stuff for my mouse though. Turning that off hasn’t made a difference though. The only updates I’ve made in the past few months were for my chipset, BIOS and the usual Windows updates.
Would anyone know what could cause this or how to fix it? Any help is appreciated, as my google-fu doesn’t seem to be strong enough. Please let me know if further info is needed!
Thanks!