simsim899 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 So I've got this problem, don't know when it started, but I didn't used to have this problem, probably only started a few months ago I think. Basically, when I'm in-game and I try and take a screenshot (by pressing the printscreen button), it fails about 80% of the time.. :confused: Instead, this is how my screenshots turn out: http://i.imgur.com/Es5EgoU.png http://i.imgur.com/lr5qIH5.png But it's not every time, as I said, about 20% of the time it works fine and I get a normal looking screenshot. :blink: Anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or what I could do to try and fix it? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytern Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Try taking a screenshot by pressing F12. When you do and next exit the game, or it crashes, a window will appear from Steam showing the new screenshots and you have a choice to upload them to Steam servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsim899 Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Try taking a screenshot by pressing F12. When you do and next exit the game, or it crashes, a window will appear from Steam showing the new screenshots and you have a choice to upload them to Steam servers.Tried F12 - didn't do anything. I have the steam overlay disabled for Skyrim though so I think that's why it doesn't work. Or, maybe I changed the default F12 key to printscreen? Because when I press printscreen it says in the corner: "ScreenShot: File 'ScreenShot235.bmp' created" and it gets saved to my skyrim folder. Just that most of them look like the examples I showed.. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytern Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Try taking a screenshot by pressing F12. When you do and next exit the game, or it crashes, a window will appear from Steam showing the new screenshots and you have a choice to upload them to Steam servers.Tried F12 - didn't do anything. I have the steam overlay disabled for Skyrim though so I think that's why it doesn't work. Or, maybe I changed the default F12 key to printscreen? Because when I press printscreen it says in the corner: "ScreenShot: File 'ScreenShot235.bmp' created" and it gets saved to my skyrim folder. Just that most of them look like the examples I showed.. :ermm: Why did you disable Steam's overlay? I don't think it impacts performance or anything. You'd need it enabled to take screenshots using the F12 key. I like using the F12 version of the screenshots because when I exit the game it shows a preview of all the screenshots, and allows me to upload them on to Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoSxorpio Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 @SIMSIM: Could be gfx going out; could also be something interrupting the write to disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsim899 Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 @SIMSIM: Could be gfx going out; could also be something interrupting the write to disc.Thanks moto! You were right, my graphics card was the culprit :P Luckily though it wasn't dying, I just must have had faulty driver installation or something, as when I updated my driver, problem solved! :) It wasn't like I was using a particularly old driver before though, it was only from Feb 2015, and the new driver didn't list any bug fixes in the change log... meh, weird >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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