screenshot issues

[~Isabella of Castile~]

I know how to take them, and I have many times but when I take them and come out of the game and try to open the file my computer can't read the file, do I need a specific program to do this?

[Aradan]

You can use fraps.
You should be able to read your files just fine afterwards.

[RickFGS]

just press "print screen" key in game, come to windows, open paintbrush and press CTRL+V, then save the pictures as *.jpeg estension file to ocupy less size and be rdy for posting on websites.

If you dont like paintbrush you can always use Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, whatever...

There is also a program called Screenshot assistant that when you press the printscreen butoon it automatically save syour file in jpeg mode.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi ~Isabella of Castile~,
To view your existing files, although FRAPS can work on new ones, you need to download an image converter which can convert .tga files which are the files that R:TW stores screenshots in. I prefer to use this one, but a quick google search for Image Converters will find you many more if you don't like the look of that one. Hope this helps, cheers!

[paul_kiss]

Isabella, your choice is IrfanView. It reads 99.9% of existing grafic formats, converts everything (including batch converting), you may even edit your screenshots via cutting and pasting the fragment you need.

[Bijo]

(...) IrfanView. It reads 99.9% of existing grafic formats, (...)

Are you certain?

[~Isabella of Castile~]

thanks all, I'll try it out and post my results

[paul_kiss]

Are you certain?

Well, maybe 95.0%. And that's more than enough.

At least it reads TGA ok. And can convert 300 (sic!) TGAs into 300 JPGs. Resize/resample. Cut a fragment, paste, save as, upload, enjoy.

An RTW player don't need no more.