Posting ScreenShots

**TMK** · June 30, 2010, 02:42 PM

When I do print screen and paste it onto paint all that is pasted is a black picture

. Why?

Any other good way of posting Screen shots?

**Kotex01** · June 30, 2010, 03:14 PM

This guide helped me alot.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=131593

**TMK** · June 30, 2010, 03:36 PM

Thanks, I will read it.
EDIT: I have read it but it only says how to make screenshots look better, not how to actually take them or answer my questions.

**Stolet** · June 30, 2010, 06:40 PM

You can download fraps, install it, run it, run the game, and when you press F10 a screenshot (in .bmp format for unregistered users I think) will appear in a folder on your hard drive. You can choose the save path and easily find it after you've played your game.

**Kotex01** · June 30, 2010, 07:14 PM

There was a link on how to take screenshots in that thread, but I just tried it and I guess that something to happened to it, but what Stolet said also works.

**TemplarX** · July 01, 2010, 01:44 AM

Screenshots are saved in a folder named tgas in your M2TW directory. Use a free program like Irfanview to open the .tga files and then save them as .jpg.
Either this or use Fraps.

**TMK** · July 01, 2010, 01:57 AM

Ok. So the easiest way is fraps.

I will download.

**Sassori** · July 01, 2010, 03:30 AM

That is good guide. I have a question for the tech gurus here; when taking screenshots: I press the print button and the whole screen pauses and all I see is a black screen with the image of the game resized in the upper left corner. Then it freezes for about 2\3 seconds. I'ts not a big problem, but a bit annoying.

This is what I see (edited with photoshop to recreate the issue):

What can it be? sorry, it is not my intention to hijack this thread, but I am curious to know why. I take screenies of several other games and never saw that before.