haw can i take screenshots of my game?

**/Bean\** · 03-27-2009, 09:23

Has anyone mentioned Fraps? Free, printscreen service. Works very well with all games; you can even designate the screenshots to immediately appear in a screenshot folder wherever you wish that to be located.

**deviant927** · 03-27-2009, 12:06

bean can i edit fraps screenies? with like mspaint? :)

**delra** · 03-27-2009, 13:19

Yes, you can. They are normal jpg or bmp graphics files after all.

**Rilder** · 03-27-2009, 13:32

Originally Posted by _Bean_

Has anyone mentioned Fraps?.

FYI if you play RTW by using "Run as" fraps won't work.

Just pressing the "print-Screen" button saves images fine anyways, no need for a 3rd party program. (except to convert them into JPG)

**Tolg** · 03-27-2009, 16:35

Originally Posted by Rilder

FYI if you play RTW by using "Run as" fraps won't work.

Just pressing the "print-Screen" button saves images fine anyways, no need for a 3rd party program. (except to convert them into JPG)

Not for all of us.

If I take pictures using print-screen they turn out black and can't even be opened by most programs. And that's a quite common problem.

**/Bean\** · 03-27-2009, 19:27

Originally Posted by Tolg

Not for all of us.

If I take pictures using print-screen they turn out black and can't even be opened by most programs. And that's a quite common problem.

Certainly is. FRAPS also works fine with me and many other people.

I use PhotoBucket to upload any screenshots, and they also have a pretty decent editing selection for a free site. Check it out.

Does 'check it out' sound very American?

**bobbin** · 03-27-2009, 19:36

Originally Posted by Tolg

If I take pictures using print-screen they turn out black and can't even be opened by most programs. And that's a quite common problem.

You need to turn off AA in the graphics menu, for some reason it messes up screenshots.

**Tolg** · 03-27-2009, 19:49

Originally Posted by bobbin

You need to turn off AA in the graphics menu, for some reason it messes up screenshots.

I read that as well, but it doesn't work for me either.

**Pobs** · 03-28-2009, 13:56

Tolg,

if you have an nvidia card check with the setup screen on your desktop that your have got 'application controlled' ticked for the AA otherwise turning it off in the game wont actually do anything...

cheers,

Pobs

**vartan** · 03-28-2009, 18:10

Originally Posted by bobbin

You need to turn off AA in the graphics menu, for some reason it messes up screenshots.

AA?

**Tolg** · 03-28-2009, 18:34

Anti Aliasing.

I don't think I have an nvidia card btw. Radeon if I recall correctly.

**vartan** · 03-30-2009, 06:37

I could research AA as I don't know much about it, but in regards to EB specifically, what does it really do? This is off the topic I suppose. Quite curious though. Didn't know it hinders screenshots!