Screenshot in DCS, how ?

[ex81]

Hi,

 

Windows snipping tool seems not to work for me.

So I searched for a way to do it in DCS and I found this under GENERAL category : SysRQ

 

Don`t know what this means. Anybody any help ?

[Eaglewings]

Screen shot function in dcs is bound to your SysRQ key in dcs control section.

Keyboard layout are different so it could be another button on your keyboard.

My is being bound to "prtscr" on my keyboard.

Edited August 11, 2019 by Eaglewings

[Rudel_chw]

Also, you can create an autoexec.cfg text file at /saved games/dcs/config

 

Inside put this sentence so that the screenshot is on jpg format rather than png:

 

options.graphics.ScreenshotExt = "jpg"

[ex81]

Screen shot function in dcs is bound to your SysRQ key in dcs control section.

Keyboard layout are different so it could be another button on your keyboard.

My is being bound to "prtscr" on my keyboard.

 

sorry, but I just don`t get it.

What does SysRQ mean and prtscr is a button ? Which one is it on your keyboard ?

 

@ Rudel_chw

A simple textfile or must it be a special app I create this file with ?

And how do I get this exe to work? I`m really not a expert.

 

 

Sorry for a lot of questions.

Edited August 11, 2019 by ex81

[Nealius]

Print Screen

 

Is the name of the actual key. I have never once seen a SysRQ key on any QWERTY keyboard.

[norbot]

I assume you're using a German keyboard. Just press the "Druck" key. The screenshot will be saved in your "C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS\ScreenShots" folder.

[razo+r]

Pressing the "Print Screen" button makes screenshots. This key is also labbeled as SysRQ: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1MSIM_enCH859CH859&ei=cExQXdLvEYy8gQbYyqCIBg&q=sysrq+key&oq=sys+rq&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i67j0i10i203j0i10l6j0i22i10i30j0i22i30.1417.2231..3313...0.0..0.80.154.2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j35i39j0i203._8gmr7GP91g

 

So they are the same buttons

[Rudel_chw]

@ Rudel_chw

A simple textfile or must it be a special app I create this file with ?

And how do I get this exe to work? I`m really not a expert.

 

 

A simple text file, but windows' Notepad is a really lousy text editor as it sometimes insert non-standard characters at the end of each line ... I use free Notepad++ ... you can get it here:

 

 

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

 

 

:)

[BitMaster]

oops, I guess times have changed, at least for the reason why you should never ever edit linux files with notepad, ala EOL,CR and LF commands.

 

Will give this a shot.

 

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/

[ex81]

Thank you for all the helpful advices and explanatios.

ALL CLEAR !