Screenies; how do I take them and share them?

[verity_blues]

Can anyone tell me how to take in-game screenies and once I take them how do I access them for posting on forums? Any help would be appreciated...

[skullman86]

One way to do it is hit print screen then go to MSpaint and at the top of the page go to edit (I believe) and hit paste, your image will show up then you can save it (you can only do one image at a time this way).You can also use Xfire and when it asks you to upload the images just hit cancel and you should be able to view them in your files tab on xfire, from there just open them and save them wherever you want.Those are the ways I do it anyway, there is a M2tw file that stores screenshots but you need to convert them to a different format and I don't know where to find the converter.


As for hosting images I use www.imageshack.us just find the proper file and host it then paste the direct link on the forum

[Socal_infidel]

Hit "Print Screen" to take 'em.

Then go to Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\tgas to retrieve them.

They're in .tga format so you're gonna have to use a program like irfanview or gimp to open them and save them as .jpeg.

Then use a website like photobucket to host the screens...

[Goatbuster3000]

Two main ways. One is microsoft paint. Just use the print screen button while playing, open microsoft paint and paste it in there. A better way is using the program FRAPS. It allows you to take pictures and record video of your games and such. I highly recommend this. Then, once saved, upload the pictures using an uploading site such as imageshack. I hope this helps!

EDIT: Beat me to it, skullman FRAPS is still good to use.

[Plutarch]

FRAPS is a great program, use it, can use the screenshot feature without registering it also. but only allows 30 sec of video recording

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

once you DL it, you can change your save files in the options so that your FRAPS screenies are saved wherever you want. makes it easier than print screen function imo. However, for stuff like taking pics of your desktop, you wont be able to use FRAPS for, and the shift / sys req button or prntscrn will need to work.

[verity_blues]

thank you all..........

[Douchebag]

FRAPS make you lag. I have 100 FPS when playing CS; when I turn on FRAPS it goes down 30.