Menus, map, etc. do not stay open/closed

First of all, this is the first time I’ve had this issue. My friend says it occurs to him often, and he solves it by restarting the game, which I tried and that didn’t fix my issue.

When I try to open a menu like Inventory or map it would open for a second then close immediately.

I hold down the button like ‘i’ for inventory I can open it, but then when I tap ‘i’ I cannot close it. It would close, then immediately reopen the inventory.

I presume the bug reads the key press twice. So if the inventory is closed currently, tapping ‘i’ would open then close, If the inventory was open, tapping ‘i’ would close then open. All because it registered the input twice… This is just a guess for now.

Again, my friend says it’s normally fine again when he restarts the game, but it hasn’t worked for me yet. I will try to start the game again after I do this event coming up soon… which I hope works.

Edit: My 2nd game restart fixed the issue. Since this issue has occurred multiple times for my friend, it is still likely to occur again in the future and the root cause of the issue still needs to be fixed.

It’s been a while. Here to report that the issue occurred again.

  • I tried using “switch character” which did not work
  • I logged back into the character select screen and log into the character, that didn’t work
  • I restarted the game 2 times and that finally worked. The first restart did not work, but the 2nd did.

This would be less annoying if the game did not take several minutes to reach the server selection screen. Whoever is in charge of optimizing the game should look into the long game launch time.

Heya @Wynn86. I’m sorry we missed your report the first time. I would like to clarify, this is happening on your alts as well? Could I have your username and server? :slightly_smiling_face:

Its been happening to me as well on and off since launch, Karta server Solycer character but happens on my whole account.

Hit i to open inventory and it auto closes, hit m for map and it auto closes

Thank you for your response. I will forward this issue to the Development team for review! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello i have the same issues with the inventory, map, daylie quests, skills that charges (i Cant use any Skills that requiers Holding the key. The skill geht canceld or fails) etc. but it is not everytime. Sometimes everything is just fine. Mostly it is Not Fine :unamused: First i thought it was my Laptop, But it happens too when i am using an extern keyboard.
It is really frustrating.

Also in the last week it has gotten worse, most of the time restarting the game fixes it for the time being but just now i closed the game closed steam and restarted 3 times in a row and have the issue each time its really frustrating.

may or may not be related but it happened the 3 times with steam overlay turned off, i then turned it back on and it was fine. No idea if that had anything to do with it or just random.

This happens to any character. I just revisited this thread right now because it happened again.

I hit m for map or i for inventory, it would open than close.

I swap to any character, and the issue persists.

  1. I start the game.
  2. I swap to something else in the meantime because it takes a few years for AGS version of Lost Ark to load.
  3. I select server.
  4. I log into my character (Main or alt).
  5. I try to open inventory or map. It would open and immediately close.
  6. I try swapping to other characters. Issue still persists.
  7. I try going back to server selection screen, going back into server and character. Issue still persists.
  8. I decided to close the game and reopen. Most of the time the issue is resolved. Sometimes the issue persists.

We thank you a ton for updating us with this information.

Are all you running yolomouse? I think that’s the culprit. I updated it this morning after a long while and the game starting doing this.

I do use Yolomouse. However, my cousin does not, and he has the same issues.

To be more specific I have it installed, but I am not actively using it. Used for other games in the past.

For me at least it’s 100% yolomouse’s new version. I’m going to have to revert it. Alt-TAB out and close yolomouse in the status bar and the behavior goes away. Tab out again and start yolomouse the behavior returns.

Interesting @othermark - Thanks for chiming in and helping us nail down the issue.

@Wynn86 I know you stated that you used it, but your cousin does not - can you think of anything that happened prior to this issue happening??

Reverting to 1.5.1 of yolomouse works great, you can find it here:

https://dragonrisegames.com/bin/YoloMouse-1.5.1.msi

@o-o Well, the issue just occurred right now.

After turning on my computer, I loaded Firefox, Google Chrome, Discord, and then the Lost Ark game.

@othermark Thanks for the input. For now I have just removed the program from my computer because I am not currently actively using it. However, I will keep your input in mind for when I decide to use the program again. Thanks.

Issue occurred again today.

I noticed my menu screen would close immediately after opening. I decided to continue trying out the new guardian today, and my skills that are combo or charge do not work as intended when this issue occurs.

After restarting the game (that still takes too long too load btw) the issue was resolved.