Screenshots?

**KingofPoland** · July 20, 2011, 04:31 PM

How do you take screenshots in RTW? Where do they get saved once you've taken them?

**Ungotter** · July 20, 2011, 05:01 PM

As far as I know RTW doesn't have a build in screen-shot sort of thing.
You can use FRAPS which takes screenshots and can record video, pressing F10 or whatever you bind it to takes a screenshot and saves it in the folder you designate.
That is, of course, if print screen isn't working :V

**Finch** · July 20, 2011, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ungotter

As far as I know RTW doesn't have a build in screen-shot sort of thing.
You can use FRAPS which takes screenshots and can record video, pressing F10 or whatever you bind it to takes a screenshot and saves it in the folder you designate.
That is, of course, if print screen isn't working :V

yes it has and when you press prnt scrn during a game it will be saved automatically inside tga/screenshots folder in your rome total war directory.

**Ungotter** · July 21, 2011, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by Finch

yes it has and when you press prnt scrn during a game it will be saved automatically inside tga/screenshots folder in your rome total war directory.

Oh really? I'll have to check that out. Thanks for correcting me.

**MortenJessen** · July 23, 2011, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by Finch

yes it has and when you press prnt scrn during a game it will be saved automatically inside tga/screenshots folder in your rome total war directory.

How do you make that work. God knows, I have tried everything more times than even He can count, and there are never a single sreenie in the folder when I look......

**KingofPoland** · July 20, 2011, 05:35 PM

Thanks. +rep

**KingofPoland** · July 20, 2011, 09:56 PM

Where exactly is that file?

**_Elysium_** · July 21, 2011, 04:16 AM

Your game program files, wherever you installed the game.

**Aymer de Valence** · July 22, 2011, 08:02 AM

The easiest way to do it would be with steamcloud. Play the game through steam (if you didn't buy it on steam, add it to the games library on there). When you are playing, just press F12 and it will take a screenshot. At the end of your session you can upload it to the steam website. Go to your profile on there, then screenshots and copy and paste the link onto here

**Brusilov** · July 23, 2011, 07:08 PM

If you use WIndows Vista or 7 and have installed the game to c:\program files (x86) then this folder is 'protected' by Windows. Any updates you make (saves, rpelays and screen captures) will end up in the 'virtual store' or 'appdata' area. To get the start of this jsut run %appdata% and then follow the appropriate path.

The screen saves will be hald as file type tga.

One thing you could do is to use some free software like Fraps (www.fraps.com) or Howies' Screen Capture (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...-Capture.shtml). I thhink people also use Xfire.

**eXistenZ** · July 24, 2011, 06:52 AM

like mercenary crossbowman says, its the easiest with steam. Fraps has a free version, but its very limited, and it always saves in bmp-format, giving you screens of 3.5MB