A bug in MSFS or is it just me? Please check.

[oneleg]

This can be checked quickly. 

Press and hold Left-Ctrl and Insert key (below the Pause button).  Let the heading bug go around a couple of times around the dial.
Result:  joystick will still work but the keyboard will freeze. 

I tried this on several default plane. It can be replicated. It's consistent. Is it because of SU14 or is it just me? I don't have too much in my community folder. Almost all are mods:  waterfixes, Bay Area bridges, mods my mamudesign (power lines, marinas, solar farms), etc. As part of my test, I removed all of them and upgraded to the latest nVidia driver but the problem would still be there. So is it just me?

[grimsel]

Hi oneleg,

I tried to reproduce you findings.

When I start pressing the keys, the heading bug starts to spin. When I keep pressing, the heading bug continues to spin and it still spins, when I stop pressing.

This means to me, that pressing the keys continuously, sends more keystrokes to the simulation than the simulation can handle. This might lead to a buffer overflow somewhere in the routines which handle key strokes. Overflows often have unpredictable consequences.

 

But after all - why should you want to do this?

[oneleg]

On 12/19/2023 at 3:06 AM, grimsel said:

Hi oneleg,

I tried to reproduce you findings.

When I start pressing the keys, the heading bug starts to spin. When I keep pressing, the heading bug continues to spin and it still spins, when I stop pressing.

This means to me, that pressing the keys continuously, sends more keystrokes to the simulation than the simulation can handle. This might lead to a buffer overflow somewhere in the routines which handle key strokes. Overflows often have unpredictable consequences.

 

But after all - why should you want to do this?

Sometimes I'm too quick on pressing buttons and overshoot the target. I stop, then quickly re-do what I wanted to do by continuously pressing the same button and... that's how I discovered the issue.