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Offline lyric1

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Print screen option
« on: June 15, 2018, 12:54:29 AM »
Was trying to take a screen shot to post on the forums of my clipboard & Windows paint no longer seems to work in game.
Bug or by design.  :headscratch:
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Offline 100Coogn

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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2018, 01:45:03 AM »
The print/screen is kinda of funky with Paint.
I've good luck with the games' screen-shot.  (forget what the key bindings are though)  :frown:

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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2018, 02:52:40 AM »
Quote from: 100Coogn on June 15, 2018, 01:45:03 AM
The print/screen is kinda of funky with Paint.
I've good luck with the games' screen-shot.  (forget what the key bindings are though)  :frown:

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Always did work at some point a patch seems to have knocked that ability out.

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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2018, 08:04:28 AM »
I've always used a freeware program called MWSnap for taking screenshots from the desktop.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2018, 09:14:21 PM »
Still worked for me.   After I open paint, I hit cntrl+v  and it loads my last screenshot.

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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2018, 10:11:00 PM »
Quote from: 1ijac on June 15, 2018, 09:14:21 PM
Still worked for me.   After I open paint, I hit cntrl+v  and it loads my last screenshot.

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It works on AHIII now?
For me it works every place else except AHIII.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2018, 12:22:53 AM »
Quote from: lyric1 on June 15, 2018, 02:52:40 AM
Always did work at some point a patch seems to have knocked that ability out.

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Mine works intermittently.   Used to work 100% but a patch did indeed do something to it...
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2018, 12:56:53 AM »
It might help to use DDU to uninstall your video drivers and then reinstall with the latest version. Windows 10 is fickle that way.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2018, 01:32:05 AM »
could it be an "Windows" version thing? I am running a GTX1070 and screen shots work as always.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2018, 03:39:09 AM »
Quote from: 1stpar3 on June 16, 2018, 01:32:05 AM
could it be an "Windows" version thing? I am running a GTX1070 and screen shots work as always.

I have the same.
Could be Windows or a driver issue as mentioned by Chalenge?
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2018, 02:54:42 PM »
I prefer the in-game feature for screenshots, Alt+S, which allows for multiple screenshots minus the time it takes to save it. For the forum I usually preview the screenshots and use the Windows Snipping Tool for a nice small cropped image.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2018, 12:35:32 AM »
Quote from: Bizman on June 16, 2018, 02:54:42 PM
I prefer the in-game feature for screenshots, Alt+S, which allows for multiple screenshots minus the time it takes to save it. For the forum I usually preview the screenshots and use the Windows Snipping Tool for a nice small cropped image.

Alt S is okay for multiple shots in succession but it's slow.   When I want to take a shot then tab out for a quick look Prtscrn is much faster. 
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2018, 12:36:41 AM »
Quote from: Chalenge on June 16, 2018, 12:56:53 AM
It might help to use DDU to uninstall your video drivers and then reinstall with the latest version. Windows 10 is fickle that way.

It happened to me in 7 also.  Not sure why.  Yeah, Windows.   Ugh.  Always something. 
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2018, 11:37:10 AM »
Quote from: Vraciu on June 17, 2018, 12:35:32 AM
Alt S is okay for multiple shots in succession but it's slow.   When I want to take a shot then tab out for a quick look Prtscrn is much faster.
I agree it takes some time to save the image.

If the need is to take screenshots of things that happen fast like a flash, filming is one option. The film can then be stopped and the image saved with the tool of your choice.
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Re: Print screen option
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2018, 01:46:27 PM »
I prefer the in-game option, especially for multiple screen shots. (here's why)

1. In-game (Alt-S) only takes a snapshot of the monitor you're playing on. (good in case you have another monitor doing something else)   
2. We can take multiple screenies in-game (Alt-S).  Not so with Print-Screen.  Print-Screen will overwrite the previous image if you use it more than once.

Just create a shortcut for the AHIII Screen saves.  You can make a desk-top shortcut, pin it to start, or even pin it to quick access if you so desire.
It's really not so hard to just drag & drop the image into Paint, once you get things arranged how you like them.

I'll stick to Alt-S

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