High resolution screenshots?

[TheLastPrivate]

I've just noticed that all my screenshots of M2TW were lacking in quality, even though I play at very high settings at 1440x900 resolution. Is there a console command or configuration that I could change so that my screenshots come out better?

Thanks in advance.

[TinCow]

That is a widescreen resolution. I run at 1680x1050, which is also widescreen. For some reason, when I take screenshots they come out appearing stretched, even though they look normal on my monitor. It could be my screenshot program, but the only way I have found to fix it is to change to a non-widescreen resolution, take the screenshots, and then switch back to widescreen.

Here is an example of what the screenshots look like for me:

Taken in 1680x1050:


Taken in 1024x768:

[TheLastPrivate]

I guess the screenshot auto-resizes the images to the standard resolution.
But I remember somebody talking about high-resolution screenshots... through console command although i may be mistaken with mtw or something.

[Ars Moriendi]

Screenshot dimension is set independently from battle/campaign resolution. When you press the prtscreen key the game takes a shot at your current resolution and then resizes it to 1024x768 (the default) thus making it look stretched, and not as high res as you'd like.

To deal with this you must set the tga_width and tga_aspect options in the [video] section of your CFG file. The lines are not in the file by default, unless you play with a mod and the creator has been kind enough to put them in. You most likely will have to add them.

In my CFG file, there's something like this :

[video]
...
tga_width = 1280
tga_aspect = 1.25
...

This tells the game that, in my case, screenshots will be taken 1280 pixels wide, 1280/1.25(=1024) pixels high.

For 1440x900 you should be using something like this :

[video]
...
tga_width = 1440
tga_aspect = 1.6
...

@TinCow : same thing, but replace 1440 with 1680

It might be possible to take screenshots at higher resolutions than what you use in game, but I haven't tested. If this is true, then it might be a good idea to use the highest possible setting for tga_width, even if your computer can't handle such high res during gameplay.

CAUTION : I stopped playing M2TW months ago, so my recollection of these things might be a little flawed. Please make a backup copy of any file you modify, just in case something gets messed up.