Tempestzzzz Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 When I capture a screen in Win7 on ANY Shockforce game I get a black screen-doesn't matter if I use Printscreen or any screencapture utility. I can capture screenshots but not in the Shockforce game. I could in my XP machine (that just died). All my games and modules are patched up to the latest. Specs. Win7 Service Pack 1 HP P6-2120t Intel R Pentium R CPU G630, 270GHZ 2.70GHZ 4 GB of RAM 64-bit Win7 home edition 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Fraps http://www.fraps.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempestzzzz Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 Thanks but I tried Fraps and Screenshot Captor and the paste function in PAINTNET. All they give me is a black screen. It's got me stumped. Fiddled withall the settings in the game. I don't have an after market video card yet-just an embedded NVIDEA chip. Been GOOGLING all afternoon-they say disable hardware acceleration but that's strange -I can take screen shots with the same computer of Silent Hunter 4. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Fraps definitely can and does work (I mean, it works for me ) Are you seeing the FPS display of Fraps in-game? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempestzzzz Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 Yes-I don't know what happened with my first install-didn't see a frame count. 2nd install worked. YUP Tried FRAPS again. It worked. Evidently this screencapture problem is WIN7 - from my research-is common with some games. FRAPS some how defeats this problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I don't know how many games it's common to, since CMBN/FI are the only games for which printscreen doesn't work on my Win7 machine. What with the new "everything has to be in My Documents" thing that FI has had to hew to, it seems like MS delights in making simple working things into a Pain-in-the-****. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempestzzzz Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 Baneman-try FRAPS as was suggested by GreenAsJade. It works-it defaults to the F10 key as the default. I'm using the demo right now and it works like a charm. Don't even get me started on the Win7 small issues that are BIG issues for me-like simple screen captures. Why it works and others don't-I don't know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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