nkorea Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) I recently asked a question regarding why my screenshots were low quality... and i found a way to increase the resolution to fix that... but now the screenshots are now all corrupt when I make new ones. ...that is, screenshots taken in the higher resolution always end up corrupt. Attempting to open these bmp files results in the viewer saying that it can't open the file. I have looked online for bmp repair software, and to test it I used a demo. It did indeed fix the image but the software is not free. That stuff is meant to repair recovered files... not game screenshots because the game can't seem to save them properly. Has anyone ever had this problem? I'd love to get into screenshotting... but if I can't quite save my work. EDIT: I tried to upload my corrupt screenshots to an online image converter site, and it showed strange distortions to the image. The image was indeed very recognizable but it was slanted to the right and highly desaturated. Edited October 13, 2015 by nkorea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M48A5 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I recently asked a question regarding why my screenshots were low quality... and i found a way to increase the resolution to fix that... but now the screenshots are now all corrupt when I make new ones. ...that is, screenshots taken in the higher resolution always end up corrupt. Attempting to open these bmp files results in the viewer saying that it can't open the file. I have looked online for bmp repair software, and to test it I used a demo. It did indeed fix the image but the software is not free. That stuff is meant to repair recovered files... not game screenshots because the game can't seem to save them properly. Has anyone ever had this problem? I'd love to get into screenshotting... but if I can't quite save my work. EDIT: I tried to upload my corrupt screenshots to an online image converter site, and it showed strange distortions to the image. The image was indeed very recognizable but it was slanted to the right and highly desaturated. You need an image editing program to change the image format from .bmp to .jpg as noted in the image upload section. You can only upload .jpg, .gif or .png files to the Image share section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkorea Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) My issue wasn't about uploading images to the Nexus. I never attempted that and don't plan on it anytime soon. I like to keep my screenshots on my computer, as my own 'collection'. My issue was that the .bmp files were corrupted. I could not view them at all. Any attempts at converting them to another format were in fact successful, but the images were distorted. The description of the distortion can be seen in my original post. EDIT: Also, I used FRAPS and the issue no longer persists because FRAPS' screenshotting doesn't seem to have the same issue. Edited October 13, 2015 by nkorea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebfield Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 i had this problem. The reason is some mod (or something) has changed your in game screen resolution. Go into your Fallout 3 folder and run Fallout Launcher as administrator, click on options and check the screen resolution. Change it to the highest resolution your monitor has and problem should be solved.. In my game a mod called Fakefullscreen (a performance mod) had changed the resolution to 800x400 (or something like that) crippling the screenshot function.. I uninstalled the mod, reset the screen resolution and everything's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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