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  • April 3, 2008 at 7:01 am #2230194

    Having problems with PrtScn

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    by stasisaz · about 16 years ago

    I’ve been having a problem getting the PrtScn to function when using an older program (Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds.) I was writing an article on it and need some screen shots. But the images I got back were color distorted, mostly black and unrecognisable. All three of the computers I have did the same thing. I’m running Win XP on all systems, each has a different MB/processor, and video card. I know the program can be screen captured because I’d done it years ago, plus there are screen shots when I Google image search. Anyone have any ideas?

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    • April 3, 2008 at 7:01 am #2556318

      Clarifications

      by stasisaz · about 16 years ago

      In reply to Having problems with PrtScn

      Clarifications

    • April 3, 2008 at 7:12 am #2556311

      Games don’t display the way they used to….

      by thumbsup2 · about 16 years ago

      In reply to Having problems with PrtScn

      Todays games have layered pictures and don’t capture the way they used to. Most people use an external 3rd party application to “grab” a screen shot. There are many available, some even free. GIMP is one of the free ones that is capable of grabbing a screen shot and saving it as a JPG, even giving you the capability of cropping the image to just the portion you want to see and resizing the picture to something you can use on the web.

    • April 3, 2008 at 5:00 pm #2552382

      You need a grabber designed for games, so try ‘Fraps’…

      by older mycroft · about 16 years ago

      In reply to Having problems with PrtScn

      Fraps is designed to be invoked before you launch your game program.

      Its primary function is to display a real-time Frames Per Second counter for benchmarking purposes.

      It can also grab a screen whenever you want by pressing a customizable key combination, set up by the user.

      Download it from here:

      http://www.download.com/Fraps/3000-2121_4-10316793.html

      I’ll be very surprised if this doesn’t work. 🙂

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