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I just spent a frustrating hour trying to disable f1 b/c whenever I pressed it on this laptop it would minimize my game and take me to a google page called "how to get help in windows 10." It took forever to solve that.

Then I spent way too much time trying to set up hotkeys for spells. I finally did it, but it required me to hold down the "fn" key before pressing f5. Then when I pressed f5, nothing happened. I have to hold down "fn" and then press f5 to switch to the spell, which defeats the purpose of the hotkey.

I thought for sure I wouldn't have to post about this. Someone would have posted earlier, certainly. Nope. Really, none of you had this problem?
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drew0987: I just spent a frustrating hour trying to disable f1 b/c whenever I pressed it on this laptop it would minimize my game and take me to a google page called "how to get help in windows 10." It took forever to solve that.

Then I spent way too much time trying to set up hotkeys for spells. I finally did it, but it required me to hold down the "fn" key before pressing f5. Then when I pressed f5, nothing happened. I have to hold down "fn" and then press f5 to switch to the spell, which defeats the purpose of the hotkey.

I thought for sure I wouldn't have to post about this. Someone would have posted earlier, certainly. Nope. Really, none of you had this problem?
That's how your laptop is setup, it's not actually sending the f-key signal. It dosent really have anything to do with the game, you should look at your laptop manual for how to flip the key default mode.

Alternatively you can use the latest test build of devilutionX as it allows you to reconfigure the hot keys to be any button you prefer.
On my laptop I had to change that in the UEFI settings. Not hard at all.
I think exactly in this case problem in game binding - how drew0987 bind that. His problem not only in his Fn key laptop settings.
As the others said, it's not a problem of the game, it's something your laptop does.
Does your laptop has a "Fn lock key"? Lenovo ThinkPads i.e. have the Fn lock key on Esc, if you press Fn and Esc the F-Keys and so on behave like on every other keyboard, and to trigger the special functions you'd have to press Fn with them.
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Gabelvampir: As the others said, it's not a problem of the game, it's something your laptop does.
Does your laptop has a "Fn lock key"? Lenovo ThinkPads i.e. have the Fn lock key on Esc, if you press Fn and Esc the F-Keys and so on behave like on every other keyboard, and to trigger the special functions you'd have to press Fn with them.
Actually that can be on some others keys\ways. ScrollLock button. Another unique button\switcher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_key

P.S. A lot of additional lock or switch keys
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