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royalmurder

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Print Screen
« on: 2011-11-26 12:21:40 »
So... this may seem dumb (and apologies if it's already in the faq section somewhere:- I couldn't find it...) but I tried to take a print screen of the game running, and all I got was a plain black screen when I pasted it back into Paint.

Anyone know what that's about?
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dkma841

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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #1 on: 2011-11-26 12:36:25 »
It wont work like that of you have Fraps there is a screesnhot tab select that and take the prntscrn
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #2 on: 2011-11-26 13:01:25 »
The bad thing about Fraps, if you don't pay for it you're stuck with a lorez screenshot.

Sometimes running the game in a window helps.
Prntscrn worked for me until I connected a second monitor.
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obesebear

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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #3 on: 2011-11-26 14:35:43 »
I think print screen doesn't work if the game is fullscreen.  You'll have to use windowed mode.


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ultima espio

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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #4 on: 2011-11-26 15:54:56 »
It's always worked for me...that's how I do my screenshots :-o
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #5 on: 2011-11-26 18:44:51 »
Yeah it works for me too.
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #6 on: 2011-11-26 20:32:46 »
Sometimes print screen doesn't work with video or games.  I dunno why that is...  It works with me for ff7 but a long time ago it wouldnt.  It would take black screens.

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royalmurder

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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #7 on: 2011-11-28 19:19:47 »
Cheers for moving to the right place.

And I figured it would work in windowed, but I prefer running it in full screen :(
what's this fraps thing?
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #8 on: 2011-11-28 19:34:54 »
Quote from: royalmurder on 2011-11-28 19:19:47
Cheers for moving to the right place.

And I figured it would work in windowed, but I prefer running it in full screen :(
what's this fraps thing?
sheesh use google for once lol:
http://www.fraps.com/
it basically records pc gameplays and also can take screenshots
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #9 on: 2011-11-30 00:23:16 »
if not fraps, you could also try SnagIt. It works well for games once you set it up, and its also great for capturing video/screenshots of your desktop. I use it daily at work to make instructions for software, and the staff use it to capture any error messages and simply e-mail the error box to me. Makes life soooo easy.
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #10 on: 2011-11-30 04:00:10 »
geek answer: print screen only works if the app does NOT use "overlay" to render the frame buffer contents
more geek version http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd390946%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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Re: Print Screen
« Reply #11 on: 2011-11-30 05:44:24 »
Yeah that's the one...
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