Harold Paulson
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I have a MBP running 10.8.3, and Minecraft 1.5.1.
This just started to affect me. I have been playing Minecraft for 71 hours a day since the early betas, and have not previously seen this problem. The game is now totally unplayable. A few seconds of movement, and the keyboard becomes unresponsive.
That is not entirely true. control still works to display players in multi-player games. Shift still works to sneak. Space bar still works, but it is delayed for a second or two.
Check this out. If I join a game and immediately open chat and start typing, I can type away forever. Until I hold down the 'w' key and release it. Then it locks up there too.
[WORKROUND] If I remap my keys, say, use the arrow keys for movement, and the keypad-0 for jump, r-control for sneak, etc, then I do not get this problem! I haven't seen anyone else mention this workaround.
Update! Yeah, so switching keys around helps a bit, but it still has issues. After a while the arrow keys start acting like the space bar did - they take a second or two to register. Not really a fix.
However, I found a better workaround, that hopefully sheds some light on the problem. My computer is a MacBook, but I have a keyboard, monitor, mouse, etc plugged into it. If I unplug the keyboard and use the built-in keyboard, it totally fixes it. I only have this issue with a USB keyboard plugged in.