Game stops accepting keyboard input and mouse clicks on language switch sometimes

[Nick12]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD 101.103.24904.0 (#155976) 19949711
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• Less than 25% of the time / matches I play (RARELY)
  (Note however I can consistently reproduce it whenever I want)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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1. Have at least two input keyboard languages (Japanese might be needed, I’ve heard it happens with chinese too)
2. While ingame, press windows+space to switch language. It doesnt always work, and I think it might be needed to do shift+windows+space or alt+windows+space, or maybe windows+space, hold space (So the selector stays on screen) and then click on the game while holding space, then release.

EXPECTED RESULT

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Game should not hard lock

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GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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• rec.aoe2record (1.4 MB)

[Nick12]

For anyone else with this issue:

You can somewhat mitigate it using microsoft powertools (Microsoft PowerToys - Windows Utilities for Power Users | Microsoft Learn ), specifically keyboard manager with this configuration to disable the hotkey for aoe2:

[Nick12]

This is still happening