Jennifur68 Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 (edited) I'm not sure what's going on but when I press F12 to do a screen shot it opens my SkyUI magic menu for all magic items, pressing F12 again causes the menu to close and my character to go into sneak mode...if I keep pressing F12 it just cycles between the menu and sneak. Pressing the PrntScn button on my keyboard flashes a message in the upper left of the screen "screenshot01.bmp created" but I can't paste it into Photoshop and it doesn't show up seaching though my start menu and on exiting Skryim it doesn't launch the Steam Screenshot Manager. I haven't changed any key assignments ever, everything was running perfectly normal just a few days ago. The only changes I've made since my last succesful screenshot and now were a few texture replacements I made to green up the Whiterun area and add some flowers to make it look more like spring and I wanted a few screenshots of that. The textures are just simply placed in Skyrim/Data/Textures/Plants and Skyrim/Data/Textures/Landscape/Grass...I made no .esp in the creation kit for them since it was a simple texture override, I didn't see the point of an .esp for that. I just updated to the latest version of SKSE today after I noticed the problem with screenshots hoping an update might clear it up but its still happening. http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z215/Jennifur68/JennInstalledModsLoadOrder.jpg Edited November 19, 2012 by Jennifur68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymmnos Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 I don't know the solution to your problem (someone else probably does), but you could make a temporary work-around by going to Steam-> Settings -> In-Game and changing the screenshot key.The steam tab is where "file" usually is in windows programs. http://i.imgur.com/RavBg.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit1251 Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 I use "Print Screen" and the image is saved to my Skyrim directory. Rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifur68 Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 (edited) Thanks Hymmnos you helped me diagnose my issue...it turns out that it was my Microsoft keyboard. I tried to change my screenshot to F11 in Steam...it came up as S when I pressed F11, so I tried resetting it to F12, that set it as P. For some reason the keyboard has suddenly decided to start using its bound keys...F12 was bound to P which is bound to Print...so when I pressing F12 it was like pressing P, and apparently in Skyrim pressing P toggles between the magic menu and sneak. I did try to change the Microsoft keyboard binding but I was only able to either change it or disable the key...and disabling it really made the key non-functional. Using my old reliable HP Keyboard that I've had forever fixed the issue...sometimes all the new fancy bells and whistles on a keyboard just get in the way. Rabbit I looked everyplace I could think of for the screenshots that were taken using Print Screen and I still haven't found them, In case anyones interested here's what I was trying to get shots of. ^^ http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z215/Jennifur68/th_MammothinthePoppies.jpg http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z215/Jennifur68/th_WhiterunSpring.jpg Edited November 20, 2012 by Jennifur68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliera Caine Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Jennifur68: When I press printscreen, the screenshots end up in my steamapps/skyrim folder right beside the Data folder and skse. If you don't see them there, your UAC might be blocking them. That happened to me in Oblivion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifur68 Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Jennifur68: When I press printscreen, the screenshots end up in my steamapps/skyrim folder right beside the Data folder and skse. If you don't see them there, your UAC might be blocking them. That happened to me in Oblivion. Actually I learned with Vista that one of the first things I want to do after installing Vista or Windows 7 is turn off UAC. ;) I just found them in the main Skyrim folder...they weren't showing up in a search in my start menu and I overlooked them the first time because I was looking for a screenshot folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliera Caine Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Jennifur68: When I press printscreen, the screenshots end up in my steamapps/skyrim folder right beside the Data folder and skse. If you don't see them there, your UAC might be blocking them. That happened to me in Oblivion. Actually I learned with Vista that one of the first things I want to do after installing Vista or Windows 7 is turn off UAC. ;) I just found them in the main Skyrim folder...they weren't showing up in a search in my start menu and I overlooked them the first time because I was looking for a screenshot folder. Yay for that! If only all Skyrim issues could be solved so quickly. Loved the color in your shots, btw. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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