Taking screenshots? How? What utility?

[CrazyAce 0]

Other threads were locked.

When I use the print screen button and paste it into Photoshop it comes up blank... :butbut:

Besides using screen shot programs (which I will not install any of), how can I get these screen shots to appear?

And why does it come up as blank?

[Shadow NX 1]

In Paint it works and i noticed in PS i needed to open a fresh empty pic myself and then i was able to paste my screen in.

[CrazyAce 0]

Thats the reason why I reinstalled CS3, I was getting the same results in MSPaint.

Xfire sucks as all hell, I press the screen shot button hot key that is linked to XFire and it doesn't even take the screen shot... This shouldn't be that difficult at all; I’m starting to get frustrated. Ya know I bet its that stupid protection system BI put in to its game.

Edited July 23, 2009 by CrazyAce

[calo_mir 10]

Long story short - my keyboard has no 'print screen' key. I've tried a couple of screenshot utilities with mappable hot keys and they appear to do precisely nothing when in-game.

What do you lot use to take screenshots?

[GLeek 10]

- fraps

- atitraytool from ray adams. rhe best if you have an ATI card. you can change jpeg quality too .

[calo_mir 10]

- atitraytool from ray adams. rhe best if you have an ATI card. you can change jpeg quality too .

I do. I'll try it, thanks.

[dragonbaron 10]

Fraps

with kind regards

DragonBaron

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Asus OSD

System Requirements:

Intel Pentium III or above

ASUS graphics cards (30-day trial period for non-ASUS cards)

[thales100 10]

Asus OSD is cool too

Edited August 18, 2009 by thales100

[Placebo 29]

Merged 4 of the existing 13.2 million threads on the subject together.

[Noraf 0]

x-fire, screen shots, video capture, live broadcasting from the game ( anyone remember it from the release ? ;) ) , and im as well

[MadCatChiken 10]

Print Screen doesn't work with Arma2..

[Alex72 1]

FRAPS does the trick for me. It takes screenshots in a bunch different file formats (JPG is compressed and make bad screens - at least for quality shots). Plus with FRAPS you can record video and sound. Again with different settings that suits your needs. And it has a FPS counter that can be toggled on/off. What more does one need? :)

Alex

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Print Screen doesn't work with Arma2..

Odd, it worked for me on Vista Ultimate 64 and it's working on this RC W7. But 1 ss at a time is useless unless it was for BigFoot. :p

[Alex72 1]

Agreed with BigBear. Works for me too. No problems at all.

[MadCatChiken 10]

Odd, it worked for me on Vista Ultimate 64 and it's working on this RC W7. But 1 ss at a time is useless unless it was for BigFoot. :p

I'm using 64bit W7 RC, when i do print screen, alt tab and paste in Paint i just get a screenshot of my desktop and not Arma, i just fraps anyway.

[jakerod 254]

I wasn't worrying about this before but since the thread is here:

I am using grabclipsave. I can take a picture of just about anything fine with it. However, when I go into ArmA II and use it all I get is black. Anyone know why?

[kozzy420 21]

Xfire works for 110 games of mine for taking screenshots, but not ARMA2, as it uses every key on my keyboard for controls LOL. So i just use the "PRTSCN" button and that works fine :D

Use to use FRAPS back in the day.