Surviving Mars - KVM switch of keyboard, mouse and audio causes crash

[Kalec01]

Description
KVM switch of keyboard, mouse and audio causes crash


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1007783

Do you have Space Race installed?
Yes

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
KVM switch, physical switch of devices between multiple PCs. My mouse, keyboard, microphone and audio all plug into a KVM switch. I press the button to switch these devices to another PC, then the game either crashes, or it locks input. What I mean is that the game does not hang, does not crash - it in fact runs perfectly, except it will no longer let me interact with it _after I switch back_, as if it does not recognise my mouse & keyboard anymore. No other program behaves like this, and I have to terminate the process.

Can you replicate the issue?
Every single time I use the switch.

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[Kalec01]

I realize this is a minor issue, most people don't have my settup. But even after the patch, the problem is there. Though I have more info.

Because the BB patch broke the game, I tracked down an old GOG version of the game. It had the tourism patch, but probably none of the hotfixes, can't say for sure. Dunno exactly what version it was. And I played that version of the game the entierty of last week.

When I used my KVM switch to go from my PC to my server, then back again, the game did not hang, it did not crash. But the audio glitched out. It had no idea how to find the new instance of the audio drivers or whatever. Seems the game remembers the audio output at game-boot time, and if you switch over it's lost forever.

But it didn't crash. So the game completely crashing at loosing keyboard and mouse is new for BB, or any of the TITO patches. But I'm rather confident in saying, it's probably none of the TITO hotfixes. Most likely introduced in BB

 

[MidnightTech]

It's the Audio. It is for me. I switch between bluetooth and wired audio and this bug will hard lock up the game. Keyboard except windows controls are ignored. Must rip the process out and restart the game.

ALWAYS reproducable when switching audio outputs (I use the volume icon in system tray, drop down default sound device). ALWAYS locks up Surviving Mars. Been this way a long time.