When on the main menu's I can use my mouse to navigate around and use menu's properly, but nothing works from my keyboard.

When I am on a server playing a game. Whether It be single player, Co-operative or competitive multiplayer. Even doing challenges, if I press F1, Esc, L or any other button that opens a menu accidentally or deliberate. There is no button to click with my mouse to close the menu's. Only to navigate backwards and forwards.

The problem being, when a meny is open, for some reason my keyboard stops working.
My keyboard has a wire and is PS2 not USB. (or whatever the little round connection with pins in it is called).
With the keyboard not working on menu's it is physicaly impossible to close the menu's after they have been opened.

The bigger problem being, between all my friends that have bought this game and want to play it with me, the only person capable of hosting a game is me, nobody can connect tot he rest of my friends, so every time I accidentally open a menu I am either forced to close my game and restart the server. Or sit with a menu on my screen unable to move. Can't jump, run, crouch, shoot, turn my camera ot anything because i'm "in a menu" and can't close it.

When I host a game for co-op, making it private, supposedly so nobody can find my game, I still get people connecting to me, which makes everybody except me lag really badly. I can't put a password onto my servers due to the menu errors, there is no way to exit the password box using the mouse and as stated before the keyboard won't work.

Now. My keyboard obviously works outside of the game, as I am typing this message, and it works to an extent where I can p lay, run around, jump up and down. But without being able to use the menu's it is hard to play. Only the menu's mess with my keyboard.

Every time I verify the game games files with steam it downloads exactly 664 bytes, Not Kb, Mb or Gb, but bytes. the smallest from of the 8 bit binary code.
I uninstalled my Anti-Virus to test that it wasn't the Anti-vuris quarantining anything. And I turned off my firewall and entered my PC into a DMZ through my router so my computer had absolutely no protection what-so-ever. But with this not fixing any of my issues I had to re-install and turn everything back on. You know, with the internet being the most un-safe place in the world for people trying to steal things from you and all.


So if anybody has any ideas or knows a solution to my problem, me and my friends would be very happy to hear from you.

Same Problem. If I enter the menu(game pause menu) the only way to close it to go to main title and start over... And I also noticed that the configuration keys some times cleanup them selves when i enter menu. So I must rebind them anew. Its a bit annoying because it takes some time. But after that there is no possible way to return to game. Using an USB keyboard Logitech G15v1. Through keyboard connects mouse.

Just clic on default under controls if you use default control ^_^

Pojop, that's an odd issue. I don't suppose you have access to a USB keyboard? Maybe borrow one? It may just be an odd issue with PS2 keyboards as they aren't all that common any more. The tiny download might just be a list of checksums to check file integrity,

Durgin, I have an USB keyboard. And I cant close the menu and return to game too.

Brink has downloaded some 15mb and i used Default button as Cortake have recommended. Now all works fine. For past 2 hours worked i mean. Then... then we will see.

What fixed this for me was from the start screen when you select your character, click the initial select button with the mouse but when the dialog with the three options appears use the keyboard cursor keys to move through the options and then press the enter key on "Select Character" instead of using the mouse to click it.

Once I had done this I was able to use the main menu options.

I have this problem if I bind my left control to something, I use it for crouch. Every time I press it everything unbinds until I let it go with the exception of the esc key which stops working completely. So I can't get out of menus anymore if I press it until I change the keys to default.

When I ran Brink the first time everything unbinded every time I pressed left ctrl so I had to reassign the keys in the menu, hasn't happened after though.

This is very annoying because I'm used to using ctrl as my crouch key, would be nice if this was fixed asap.

Wow thank you guys - Tried all the above things, the one that fixed it was changing my controls back to default.

Thank you all for your help.

(Sorry for the late response, i work Night shifts)