Action menu broken

[weld 26]

Date/Time: Various times

What happened: Could not use action menu

Where you were: Various places

What you were doing: Trying to use action menu (light a campfire, transfuse/bandage other, Take ALICE pack, etc.)

*Current installed version: 1.7.1.5

*Server(s) you were on: Various servers

*Your system specs: Pretty good system, runs the game great

*Timeline of events before/after error: No pattern detected, seems to be pretty random

Every so often my action menu completely stops working. I can do whatever the first action on the menu would be with middle-click, but scrolling or using [ ] does nothing, so I cannot perform any actions other than the top action.

Also for some reason when I am in this state my F key (which I have rebound to direct comms) reverts to "Weapon Toggle" even though in the options it still shows as direct comms only. I am also unable to vault with either the key I rebound it to (space) or the default (v).

So far the only workaround I've found is to exit to desktop and restart the game. Any ideas?

Could be related to this 3 year old Arma 2 bug:

https://dev-heaven.net/issues/3779

[weld 26]

Ok, I may have figured this out.

I've noticed that instead of restarting the game, opening and closing the Steam overlay seems to restore functionality.

This indicates that the issue is not with DayZ but has to do with the way I'm interacting with the Steam overlay. Wish I'd have found this out a couple days ago.

[moriak 35]

I'm having a similar issue now and then, scroll wheel menu stops showing after I get back into the game from steam overlay or alt+tab.. I found out that some modifier key (ctrl, alt, shift) gets stuck when alt+tabbing to windows or using steam overlay so the game thinks I am doing modifier key+scroll instead of plain scroll.. I have to tap every modifier key to get it unstuck and then the scrolling starts working again

[weld 26]

That would explain it; I will try this as well next time it happens.