Dumb Question: How to take screenshots?

[Doc. Caliban]

I hit the SysRq key, the screen pauses briefly, nothing shows up in the screenshots folder.

 

Thoughts?

 

-Doc

[nemises]

hrm...should do..

are you running XP, Vista or Win7?

If Vista or Win7, you may have permisions issues (especially if you have installed into the program files path)

[Doc. Caliban]

Vista, and I was thinking just that. How portable is the install? Can I just move it, or are there registry entries as well?

 

Or, what if I run the game as Administrator? As in, use the 'Run as administrator' option.

[Dethmagnetic]

Vista, and I was thinking just that. How portable is the install? Can I just move it, or are there registry entries as well?

 

Or, what if I run the game as Administrator? As in, use the 'Run as administrator' option.

 

This has worked for me in other games (FreeFalcon won't take screenshots unless I run it as an administrator).

[Doc. Caliban]

I just gave it a shot by going to DCS.exe and checking the option 'run this as administrator'

 

However, not it won't launch a mission. It tires to, and then just goes to the after action screen. If I uncheck the box and try again, it starts working again.

 

I'll do the same to launcher.exe and see if that helps.

[Haukka81]

I think its right shift + sys reg key.

[Doc. Caliban]

Setting both the launcher and the DCS.exe to run as admin cracked it. SysReq now takes screenshots.

 

Want to hear a good Vista story?

 

Before I made the changes, the Screenshot folder appeared as being empty, even though I had tried to take screenshots in the past.

 

After making the changes and taking a few screenshots, the folder now shows those images.

 

When I double-click on one of them to open it with ACDsee, one of the 'missing' screenshots comes up. When I scroll through all the images with ACDsee, it shows all of the screenshots EXCEPT the new ones. When I close ACDsee, the folder still only shows the three new shots.

 

Oooooo.... spooky!

 

If I right-click one of the new ones and open it with a different app, it opens that image and shows ONLY the three new images.

 

Yay, Vista! Amazing magic tricks that make you go "OOOOOOO!" and then kick your monitor in with a boot.

[Lava]

Try using FRAPS instead.

[Boulund]

It's also possible to install the game to another directory outside of C:\Program Files\ to never be bothered by this. At least that's what I did and it works very good.