hanabi

I can conform this problem with Japanese keyboards and Japanese IME software in Windows 7. It drove me absolutely crazy until I determined what the hell was going on and how to give focus back to the Ren-X window. Nothing worse than being under pressure with enemy infiltrating your base and being completely helpless due to keyboard focus being stolen by the IME software. Was even flamed for "doing nothing while the base burned" when in fact I was unable to do anything via keyboard input other than change my direction So I spend some time on an empty server trying to find out which key combination caused the loss of focus and how to regain focus without exiting Ren-X. If I remember correctly, the combination (which I sometimes accidentally pressed in a "newbie panic") caused IME to steal focus. To return focus I think I had to press the combo (below the escape key, usually the tilde key on non-Japanese keyboards) one or more times. This usually fixed the problem, but not every time. In the end I removed Japanese IME and changed my keyboard selection in section of Win7 (I chose the standard US keyboard). Hope that helps other Japan-based Ren-X gamers.