How to take a screenshot?(resolved)

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:04 pm

How does one go about taking a screenshot while playing BF2. I keep getting killed when I leave the keyboard to pick up my digital camera.

DaGrooved1 · Post by **DaGrooved1** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:12 pm

I believe it's Print Screen which saves a screenshot to your "My Documents\Battlefield 2\Screenshots" thing, also you can press Ctrl + Printscreen in windows to put a screenshot in the clipboard, then you can go to mspaint and paste it.

edit: w00t my post count is 1945!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:15 pm

Get fraps.

http://www2.fraps.com/FRAPS274.EXE

Winter_Lion · Post by **Winter_Lion** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:40 pm

Fraps is very good and I use it sometimes as well. But I gotta say, hitting your print screen button like Dag mentioned above produces a very decent screenshot.

I always take a couple in case you mess up the first one or need another editable copy.

There are console commands that will shut off your ingame dashboard and mini-map so you can get the whole scene in the shot. Much better results that way. There is a list of the ingame tilde button options somewhere in your BF2 help or admin files. They also feature the list over at Total BF2, it's under one of the folder tabs arrayed to your left when on their homepage.

Say Cheese.............Winter

Post by **madcow** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:24 pm

I would recommend Fraps over pressing Print Screen. My only experience with the old print screen button was the other day and I had my whole battlefield 2 lock up for 10 seconds after pressing it and it then continued to be 'jerky' for a good 10 seconds extra afterwards.

StarLord · Post by **StarLord** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:37 am

Print Screen never failed on me for the 9 years I used it! (At that time I was 8 years old, and I adrealy knew what Print Screen was for

)

I was playing Lego Island at that time, pretty funny game!

DaGrooved1 · Post by **DaGrooved1** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:27 am

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Post by **Ash2Dust** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:57 pm

Havent tried lately, but BF2 used to at one point put the screenshot in your My Documents folder in the BF2 folder. EA broke that and we had to use the printscreen to acquire, tab out, then paste it into MS Paint to save it. Might be fixed tho.

Winter_Lion · Post by **Winter_Lion** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:21 pm

Ash2Dust wrote:Havent tried lately, but BF2 used to at one point put the screenshot in your My Documents folder in the BF2 folder. EA broke that and we had to use the printscreen to acquire, tab out, then paste it into MS Paint to save it. Might be fixed tho.

It must be fixed because using printscreen does place your screenshot into your BF2 folder in My Documents. I must have missed that broken process altogether.

Winter

Post by **Goggles** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:54 pm

print-screen doesn't place an image in the screenshot directory if you're in the end-of-round screen (where it shows a list of player's scores, best squads, best kits, etc). That's where FRAPs comes in handy, if you can remember to turn it on, lol

StarLord · Post by **StarLord** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:01 pm

well, then just hit print screen and get paste the image on any image program you want.

Post by **Ash2Dust** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:04 pm

StarLord wrote:well, then just hit print screen and get paste the image on any image program you want.

Simply put. You can use MS Paint.
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