K100 - FN key blocks other keys

[Deathmar]

Hi guys, I recently bought K100 opt keyboard (second one, first one got malfunctioned extra keys) and found that pressing FN key completely disables all other keys. If I hold FN key down, no other keys are recognized. I found it when I remapped FN key to Shift key, but no key combinations were working (Shift + K etc...). After some investigation I found FN key is correctly remapped to Shift key (keyboard tested, both Shift and FN key presses were recognized as Shift), but problem was that when I held down FN key, no other keys were working. I tried to completely uninstall and re-install iCUE, but without success, issue remained.

 

Is this intended behavior? Because if it is, then this key is completely useless and a fu*king joke... Thanks in advance!

[Deathmar]

Anyone guys please? I don't know if I should RMA or not...

[Corsair Haurjie]

Hi Deathmar,

 

Some other users have reported the FN key to have made certain other keys stuck, but not all. Your issue seems to be the first I've seen so far, let me escalate this back to my team and see if we can implement a fix. Thank you!

[Deathmar]

Thanks a lot, because this button is literally dead now:(

[Deathmar]

Any update please? I still don't know if RMA my keyboard as this key was one of the reasons I bought it...

[Corsair Notepad]

What you described happening in your original post is correct as the FN (Function) key on the K100 is just like any other FN key on like a laptop for instance. If you hold the FN Key down the only buttons you will be able to press and actuate an action/keystroke while it is being held down are the buttons you have Macros set to. and ONLY that macro itself will go.

 

For instance if you for some reason wanted to remap your 1! key to Media Play/Pause but also turned Retain Original Input on when you press the button 1! it will not only type a 1 but also Play/Pause any media you have playing. Now if you press FN+1 only the Play/Pause remap will work.

[Deathmar]

Oh, thanks for perfect answer! Although I am bit disappointed that I can not remap this Fn key to whatever I want and change its behavior. I believe it won't be that hard to let users decide which behavior they want - through your iCUE software and it would improve the versatility a lot (for example remapping shift to Fn key and pressing it with thumb while playing on UJKH or keeping original behavior which u described if anyone needs it). Because I think now it is just dead key for most people which is very sad taking into account how great this keyboard overall is...

[Deathmar]

I can't believe no one else is interested in what I asked - have a chance to decide how the FN key will behave, including the behavior of older keyboards - remap it to just another regular key without any connection to macros or key blocking. By upgrading to K100 we lost one key for no real reason - nice decision you did for us Corsair! Like it isn't enough to have much worse media keys comparing to your older keyboards - on K100 if you accidentally press any media key in top part, they don't react at all - this never happened with your older keyboards - why to change something what worked perfectly? Did a designer of K100 had to fulfill some crazy requirement from management to change number of things so it looks like there is some improvement? Sadly there isn't... new optical switches are enough for most people to buy this keyboard, while the other changes held me back for a while (and not only me). On the end I bought it, but besides the new switches, everything else is worse than before:(

 

Please at least let us remap and change behavior of this stupid FN key!!!

[cbns]

I second this mention. Super annoying.

I miss my old K95 where I could Win+L to lock my PC or Win+Arrow key to change windows with just my right hand. Now all of that is a 2-handed endeavor.

I don't use the key at all as it stands and it is a waste. A real remap would be great.