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G751 change shadowplay key functionality with escape request?

aligishere
Level 7
Hi guys and gals,

Lately I've had 2 annoyances with the keyboard layout of the g751, the shadowplay button fooling my brain to think it is the escape key, and steam opening big picture instead of regular steam.

So, for the steam problem, I followed this tutorial https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?53229-Steam-key-open-desktop-mode to remap the steam key to open with desktop mode instead of bigpicture by changing the hex code from HControl.exe, and that worked great.

But I also find myself missing the escape key a lot and I know I could probably get used to it, but I figure, since we can modify the steam key, why couldn't the shadowplay key be remap-able as well... into... acting as a second escape button?

I searched for a solution, but I didn't find anything, and I know I could probably disable the key, but, if I could make it work as escape, it would be absolutely perfect.

If you have any ideas, pointers or leads that I could follow, please tell me, I'd be more than happy to investigate.
Thanks, and have a nice day.
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xemax
Level 7
A dirty solution, i wrote a simple program wich will send an "ESC" keystroke on execution. Copy it to "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ATK Package\ATK Hotkey" and rename/overwrite the old file.
Please test wich time is better.

ESC key pressed for 500ms
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/8486818395614D499461149CCE3FE35DY

ESC key pressed for 200ms
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/0681A87916C84FADA45128A283713E77Y

ESC key pressed for 100ms
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/C70ED608E74A432895C845C43BD91D00Y

aligishere
Level 7
The difference is the time between the keystroke and the time it takes to send the actual ESC command? I tried the 100ms one and it works flawlesly, you have my thanks xemax, it does exactly what I wanted 😄

Thanks and have a nice day!

xemax
Level 7
The time is between ESC key pressed command and ESC key released command.

dapogz
Level 8
Thanks Xemax... this helps a lot...

Portugieser
Level 7
Perfect stuff, thanks a lot!

aligishere
Level 7
Small quirk is that it doesn't work in games, any ideas why that might be?