Toggling "Night Vision Goggles" implicitely activates "Detach Camera" (solved)

[White-Gandalf]

My girlfriend today stumbled over a very strange behavior of her game: When she wears the "Night Vision Goggles" and tries to switch them on, her game reacts as if it were in Debug-Mode (which it is not - confirmed by me via steam watching her) and as if she had simultaneously clicked Hotkey "P" ("Detach Camera").

 

Thus, when i set a game on my side into debug mode and then (and ONLY then) press simultaneously "F" and "P", i get the exact same behavior as her.

 

With the exception of nigher her game being in debug mode nor her pressing multiple keys at ones.

 

My hypothesis is that something in the games configuration has locked itself in a wrong state on her side.

 

She gets this behavior on every game, be it a freshly started one or an old one (confirmed by me via steam watching her going into creative mode, taking a night vision goggles and putting it on, then activating it via hotkey).

 

She can still use a normal helmet light the normal way.

 

She HAS over the months experimented with key reassignments, so it could well be the case that she had reassigned the key bindings multiple times and that these settings were carried over from previous alphas.

 

Is there anything she can do to reset her configuration (for example deleting a certain file or registry entry)? Nothing that we tried so far has helped.

Edited August 15, 2021 by White-Gandalf (see edit history)

[Beelzybub]

8 hours ago, White-Gandalf said:

Is there anything she can do to reset her configuration

 

From the Launcher select "Tools" and then "Clean Game Data"

From that screen check the box "game settings" and then press "clean".

[White-Gandalf]

Thanks! That helped instantly. Topic can be closed.