Tip: Taking TW3 screenshots with Reshade Framework

[Budong]

If you're already running Reshade Framework and don't want to install another capture utility, or if you just want a free screencap utility that works with Windows 8.1/10, then this tip is for you! :)

I'm currently using Reshade Framework v.1.0.0 from http://reshade.me . It's a post-processor that can be used to add extra visual effects to games, but it can also take screenshots now too. It's actually extremely easy to set-up, although info on how to get screencaps working in Reshade Framework is a pain to find... after searching for a bit, I *finally* got it to work... Here's how!

When you install Reshade Framework for The Witcher 3, you put three things into the same folder as your game's executable... a folder named "Reshade" (which contains shaders and config files), a config file called ReShade.fx, and a ReShade64.dll file (which you must rename so that your version of Windows "accidentally" loads it instead of the real DirectX .dll when you start the game.) There are plenty of tutorials for that on the web, and here on Nexus already so I won't repeat that.

Anyways, to enable screenshots, all we have to do is tell ReShade where to save our screenshots to, and what key we would like to use as the screenshot key. So, open ReShade.fx with Windows notepad, and add two extra lines as follows after the #include "ReShade\Common.cfg" line...

#pragma reshade screenshot_location "<path>"
#pragma reshade screenshot_key <keycode>

... where <path> is an existing folder path on your drive, and where <keycode> is a value that identifies the key you'd like to press for a screenshot (see the ReShade\PersonalFiles\KeyCodes.h file for a map/list of all the codes that ReShade Framework recognizes for keys and mouse buttons.)

So... When you're done, you should have added two lines that look something like this...

#pragma reshade screenshot_location "C:/Users/Owner/Desktop"
#pragma reshade screenshot_key 123

Those two lines make my machine capture a screenshot when I press the F12 key (as the decimal code for the F12 key is 123) and the images get saved to the desktop folder of my user profile ("Owner"). Note the use of forward slashes in the path which is very important - backslashes don't work.

Happy capping! ;D

[Juleiila]

What is with Windows 7 ? I'm using Visual Enhanced Project, and Turbo Lightning Mod...the Game looks AWESOME with it...but when I took Screenshots (Steam, F12) the Pictures dont look that good. I can see nothing of the Mods. Yep its because of the Reshade. I changed, the Lines, like you said...and nothing hapens :( I post them, maybe you can help me.

 

// Global Settings
#include "ReShade\PersonalFiles\KeyCodes.h"
#include "ReShade\Common.cfg"

#pragma reshade screenshot_location "C:\Users\Juju\Desktop\ScreensWitcher"
#pragma reshade screenshot_key 123

#if RFX_Screenshot_Format != 2
#pragma reshade screenshot_format bmp
#else
#pragma reshade screenshot_format png
#endif

#if RFX_ShowFPS == 1
#pragma reshade showfps
#endif
#if RFX_ShowClock == 1
#pragma reshade showclock
#endif
#if RFX_ShowStatistics == 1
#pragma reshade showstatistics
#endif

#if RFX_ShowToggleMessage == 1
#pragma reshade showtogglemessage
#endif
#pragma reshade screenshot_location "C:\Users\Juju\Desktop\ScreensWitcher"
#pragma reshade screenshot_key 123

[Loeffelmaster]

Ok, I manged to change the screenshot path and set the format to png.

Is there always a setting to define the format of the filename?

At the moment it is:

"%gamename% YYYY-MM-DD hh-mm-ss.png"

And I would like to change it to:

"YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.png"