All my screenshots come out all black...

Hi when I try to take a screenshot of the game, it comes out all black when I try to copy it into Paint.

Please help.

I have Vista.

Check your City of Heroes folder (normally under C:\Program Files\City of Heroes). There should be a folder in there called Screenshots. Look in that folder and open up your picture, are they still coming out black?

I am trying to screenshot the character list, not actual ingame stuff.
My ingame stuff comes out normal just without the UI.

Am I doing something wrong to take a normal screenshot of the character list? I am hitting PrntScn like I would any other time.

I apparently type slower than "TheGameBug".

So, do you have a different image editor, Photoshop or somesuch, to try?

No just paint >.<

Is there any free thing out there? I have no clue
I'll go look

Not really necessary, just trying to narrow down where the problem lies.

Can you paste a screenshot taken in-game into paint normally, showing the UI and such? i.e. it's JUST the "choose character" screen that doesn't paste?

Drat, time to go to work.

normal ingame screens to paint come out all black too >.>

But, when I copy and paste to paint from just the normal interweb they come out normal >.>
Wth is this problem

I just download and install program called GIMP. It actually looks like an awesome picture editor. Cept my stupid pictures from the game are still coming out all black.

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

PP, this a known issue with Vista, the screen shots just come out black sometimes. Vista has a tool called the snipping tool, you might want to give that a try instead of the games screen shot ability.

The screenshot is failing when it's being copied with Printscreen. It doesnt matter what editor you paste the image into. It's still going to come out black. Yes, GIMP is a great image editor, but we need to get your picture into the clipboard correctly first.

Try this: Vista Clipboard Alternative: Snipping Tool

Ha, beat you by a minute Mateo!

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Originally Posted by Eislor Ha, beat you by a minute Mateo!

I don't use Vista, I had to go find the name of the utility first. haha

I am not seeing snipping tool under my list of accessories
Im going to look at the microsoft site and see if i can dl it from there

ok ty.
doin it now.

Has anyone been able to work around this on Windows 7? Since upgrading to Win7 I can't find a way to get working screenshots of things like my enhancement screen or costume editor screen, because the game screenshot key doesn't work there.

I've tried the Snipping Tool, as well as suggestions like this, to no avail. I get a black screenshot every time.

You could try FRAPs, it has a screenshot mode (don't recall how it operates in the free version). It's possible it's related to a driver issue, so upgrading your video card's driver might help.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

It doesn't seem likely to be a driver issue. I'm on the latest WHQL driver, and have been through a couple of releases, and it doesn't change anything. I'm using a modern NVidia card, so it's not like it's a non-mainstream configuration, especially for CoH.

I guess I'll have to look into FRAPS. What a PITA for something that used to be so simple.