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| 1107650 | 2010-06-07 07:58:00 | I am trying to take a screen shot in a PC game. I am trying to use the Prt Scn key. I know all about pasting into a program like Paint or similar to save it but Nothing appears. I have accessed the clipboard to view what I am supposed to be pasting but nothing appears. I can't find any help online other that haw to use the Print Screen Key to paste as I have benn trying to do. Some say use alt-Prt scr others say shift - prt scr. I have tried all combinations. I have even tried using Gadwin Printscreen to do this but no luck at all. I am using XP professional with SP 3. Any ideas. |
hogsnort (7858) | ||
| 1107651 | 2010-06-07 08:02:00 | Well it should be shift+printscreen together then open paint and ctrl+V. Does everything else on your keyboard work? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1107652 | 2010-06-07 08:11:00 | Or just the printscreen key then ctrl-v | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1107653 | 2010-06-07 09:14:00 | For a 3D game you may be SOL. Windows may recognise the PrtScr key by default, but it doesn't necessarily know what the screen contents are in the same way it does for 2D windows on the desktop. The screen image is generated by the GPU in the video card and unless the game developer puts in some code to perform the equivalent operation (check the game manual; there's probably some way of doing it, but not necessarily via PrtScr). Bear in mind that games traditionally take over the keyboard at quite a low level & there's no guarantee that Windows ever gets to see the key data - the game recognises the ones it wants to & throws away the rest. |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 1107654 | 2010-06-07 10:01:00 | as noted above their may be a specific screen capture procedure. Or search online for any "game save" or "walk throughs" with screenshot files/images for your game. Or maybe a screen capture tool; I use screen grab (for firefox). Some free screen captures (www.snapfiles.com) at snapfiles |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1107655 | 2010-06-07 21:28:00 | What game are you trying to screen shot? I know I play a lot of World of Warcraft and even when I pressed PrntScrn it didn't copy to the clipboard instead it got saved to my ScreenShot folder located inside the game folder. So maybe have a check around there or do what everyone else suggests and check your keybinds, there's usually one for "Screen Captures" Hope this helps. |
GreacherTech (15784) | ||
| 1107656 | 2010-06-08 20:16:00 | If you're able to Alt-Tab out of the game (to give Windows the 'focus' on the keys instead of the game hogging the keystrokes), and able to size the game screen to less than fullscreen mode (ie run in a Windowed mode) then you'll be better able to get your Printscreen to work - albeit at a lower resolution, and with part of your Desktop in the image. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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