Ted Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 This is an interesting one. I want to take a screen shot. I hit ctrl-printscreen open paint paste and all I see (have captured) is what is behind the game i.e. this web page or my wall paper. Does not the ctrl-prtscn work in capturing a picture of the game? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardosy Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Do you use win7? Then forget it! Win7 ruin your screenshot abilities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 Yes it's Win7 64bit. So, no screen shots for me then? Nuts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statisoris Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 You need Fraps, screen capture program. I use the full paid version which has full functionality. The free version only takes Bitmap images. Before I got Fraps, nothing else worked for CMBN screenshots. I tried lots of free program but no dice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Yeah there's always been problems with taking screenshots of CMx2 with Vista/Win7. You need FRAPs which is a breeze to use. You can change the BMP to JPG by just renaming the extension, smaller size for easier upload times at little quality loss. Tip: it doesn't need to be running prior to launching CMBN. So when you get a nice pic lined up, just alt-tab out, start it, alt-tab back in and snap away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLargehuge Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I have Win7 64 bit and was able to take several screen shots using print screen. I just tested it now to verify. You don't need to hold Control, you can just hit Print Screen and it's finicky. The first time I usually get the main menu when I paste and if you are taking several shots, you will have to go back and forth a couple times as sometimes the new screen shot won't take and you paste the old one. So you have to switch back to the game, retake the shot then try to paste again. If you want to take a lot of shots or take shots often, you may want to download something more reliable. I take maybe two or three a week so I just deal with the extra 10 seconds it takes me to use the print screen button. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_All_Fight Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 +3 for FRAPS. I've never had any problems with it. As MeatEtr points out, though, it's best to change the file type from BMP to JPG if you're planning to use them as screen shots. Unlike McLargehuge, I've never had any success using printscreen, either with W7 64 or previously with Vista. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatmasta Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I have Win7 64 bit and was able to take several screen shots using print screen. I just tested it now to verify. You don't need to hold Control, you can just hit Print Screen and it's finicky. The first time I usually get the main menu when I paste and if you are taking several shots, you will have to go back and forth a couple times as sometimes the new screen shot won't take and you paste the old one. So you have to switch back to the game, retake the shot then try to paste again. If you want to take a lot of shots or take shots often, you may want to download something more reliable. I take maybe two or three a week so I just deal with the extra 10 seconds it takes me to use the print screen button. But why do you even bother when there's the Fraps available? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLargehuge Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 To be honest, just lazy I guess. It works well enough for me for the little I use it, so I just never bothered. I'm not saying that's the best way or even suggesting to do it my way. I was just saying it's possible in case TED was like me and found it satisfactory to their needs. Although apparently according to Lets All Fight I am just lucky 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_All_Fight Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well, if it works for you go for it. I wonder why it works for you? GPU? Something else? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well, if it works for you go for it. I wonder why it works for you? GPU? Something else? Windows 7 was his idea. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLargehuge Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Not sure. Running a GeForce GTX 580 with the 275.33 version drivers. Probably not the latest, but I usually only update if I'm having a problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well, if it works for you go for it. I wonder why it works for you? GPU? Something else? Actually just gave it a try on my freshly installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit and it did work. Though as mentioned, the first try is a image of the main menu, but it did work on the second attempt. Before on my Vista 32-bit install it never worked, was always just a black screen. P.S. Got the GTX 570 on the 280.26 drivers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_All_Fight Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Actually just gave it a try on my freshly installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit and it did work. Though as mentioned, the first try is a image of the main menu, but it did work on the second attempt. Before on my Vista 32-bit install it never worked, was always just a black screen. P.S. Got the GTX 570 on the 280.26 drivers. Cool. I wonder if something got changed in a Windows update. I'll give it a spin myself tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 not to beat it to death, but fraps really is your best friend here. All you do is hit F10 and keep going and you can hit it as often as you like. Then you go and sort through your shots later. If you are working on an AAR or trying to fool a scene sequence to post, it makes all the difference betwen a laborious process that risks an out of memory issue and a simple button click. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatmasta Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I started to take screenshots of my pbem games from the top view in each turn and will compose a "video" of the game progress when the game is finished. Fraps makes it a lot easier, though I have not yet finished any of them, but it will be interesting to see the results. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 I took your suggestions and downloaded the free FRAPS software and it seems you cannot change the screen capture from bmp to jpg without being a registered user (which costs $37). Or am I missing something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I took your suggestions and downloaded the free FRAPS software and it seems you cannot change the screen capture from bmp to jpg without being a registered user (which costs $37). Or am I missing something? You can easily convert the bmp's to jpg's afterwards. (Irfanview has a good batch facility). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I took your suggestions and downloaded the free FRAPS software and it seems you cannot change the screen capture from bmp to jpg without being a registered user (which costs $37). Or am I missing something? You are exactly correct, however considering you are going to want to crop the pic and clean it up to get the best from it for posting, that is simply a small step when you save it. I have been using Picassa for editing and have it set to save automatically as jpeg so I don't have to do anything additional. If you haven't I highly recommend going back to this thread on the whole posting process. The suggestions really help get the most out of it and they are easy to follow. http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=97288 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Yes, that's what I'll do. Thanks Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Just wanted to point out one of the bonuses I found in the FRAPS program. I have multiple monitors and when I did a print screen I would capture the screen on all the monitors and had to crop out what I didn't want. FRAPS just captures the CM screen. (I load it in to Paint or Photoshop and save as a jpg.) Works great, thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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