Keyboard, only 2 buttons simultaneously?

[Pelinox]

I just bought a Logitech keyboard for my laptop, and thought I would try it on my desktop aswell, as my current keyboard is like 5 years old.

It felt fine and all, then I went to play Battlefield 3 and immediatly noticed something. I can't press W, sprint and jump. That means this keyboard will only allow me to press 2 buttons simultaneously. Is this a "feature" of the keyboard, or is this something I can actually change?

It seems rather odd to me, how a brand new Logitech, that costed 82 pound only allow me to press 2, while my 5 year old keyboard, which came with a dull computer will allow 3 or more.

 

[Dutchman]

Read this to understand why -> Ghosting

 

[Efour]

Indeed always read the small print on these - Gaming keyboards usually allow 5ish keystrokes at once.

 

[Pelinox]

Read this to understand why -> Ghosting

Nice, thanks. Guess Logitech will have this one back on Monday
Even after reading it, im surprised how my old keyboard is capable of coping just fine with 3+ keystrokes.

Even this Logitech should, according to that link, work. Since I have W as W, Sprint on Shift and Jump on Space, there is no link between either of them.

 

[olivier renault]

Nice, thanks. Guess Logitech will have this one back on Monday
Even after reading it, im surprised how my old keyboard is capable of coping just fine with 3+ keystrokes.

Even this Logitech should, according to that link, work. Since I have W as W, Sprint on Shift and Jump on Space, there is no link between either of them.

It's the way the circuit board is setup. To reduce cost, they lay it out in some really obfuscated ways. Even more baffling, you have that problem on their newer revisions of premium keyboards too (Illuminated keyboard). Conspiracy theories would dictate that it is a cunning ploy to force you to buy their dedicated gaming keyboards.