FEDS

I put off playing Zanzarah for some time, but here I am again. I had a two-day long break. Now, I had a worry, because of these unwanted crashes of the game during fights, which occur upon flying. I use left shift for flying. So I've decided to change my move controls, and I'll change them from WSAD to FEDS. That way I will be able to use A for flying, and this will keep me away from the thing which causes crashes.

Crashes take place by sudden closing of the game and appearance of a question box on Windows desktop, which asks if I want to turn permanent keys on.

I didn't know what is exactly the reason for crashes, and I thought it's capslock and that I press it accidentally, but the answer turned out to be more interesting.

"Jeżeli chcesz włączyć lub wyłączyć Klawisze trwałe jedyne co musisz zrobić to wcisnąć klawisz Shift pięć razy z rzędu. Spowoduje to wyświetlenie następującego okna." (quote from: pcworld.pl)

Of course since I use shift for flying, I have to press it many times quickly to have my fairy fly in a satisfactory way. Keeping the shift pressed in does not result in flying, because fairies fly thanks to jump energy, and therefore to have them fly, you've got to jump them up by short multiple presses of the button.

So now we know that shift is not good as any steering button.

And so I will switch my move controls to FEDS, and choose A as a fly key, and stick to Spacebar as an attack key.

I'm planning to continue my game pretty soon, and am very curious if my new button controls will pass the exam.
After writing all this, I have found out that there is however another option, and that's turning off this 5xShift shortcut in my system. And I have done that already too, so theoretically now the crashes shouldn't occur even if I remain using old key controls. But it maybe will be a bit better to change to new button layout, as it might be more comfortable. So I will try the new controls, and if they fail me, I will stick to using Left Shift and WSAD.