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I've had this happening for quite some time. For some weird reason, Vista and Win 7 seem to not be able to copy the game output to the clipboard.|
Originally Posted by Grease Monkah
When I go to take a screenshot ingame I hit Prtsc and as of lately when i go to paste it on Paint it shows the picture as a black box, nothing else, any advice?
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The game itself actually has a mechanism by which when you hit that Prtsc key, it saves a screenshot of the game under the City of Heroes application folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes) in a subdirectory named screenshots. If you've been hitting the Prtsc key, look in there and you'll find them.
If you want screenshots with the UI included (e.g. chat windows, nav window, status window, heal/damage numbers, "Level Up!" messages...), you'll have to use a special slash command, /screenshot_ui.
For more details, see the Screenshots article on the Paragon Wiki. It's got some great advice on creating great screenshots.
Also, as a side note, the in-game screenshot functionality doesn't work for some cases, such as on the Enhancement Management screen, the loading screens, etc. If you want to get screenshots of those things, you'll probably need a third-party utility, such as Fraps (which probably most well known for video captures, but which can also take screenshots).
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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Originally Posted by Grease Monkah
When I go to take a screenshot ingame I hit Prtsc and as of lately when i go to paste it on Paint it shows the picture as a black box, nothing else, any advice?
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Originally Posted by TonyV
I've had this happening for quite some time. For some weird reason, Vista and Win 7 seem to not be able to copy the game output to the clipboard.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
Vista has the very usable 'Snip it' tool under accessories. I put it on my taskbar and use it whenever I want to nap a screenie.
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I've tried that tool (win7), but the result is the same as print scren, a big black rectangle - only thing that worked for me was switching to windowed mode, for some reason that's the only way I can get print screen or the snip tool to work.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Vista has the very usable 'Snip it' tool under accessories. I put it on my taskbar and use it whenever I want to nap a screenie.
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Originally Posted by Grease Monkah
When I go to take a screenshot ingame I hit Prtsc and as of lately when i go to paste it on Paint it shows the picture as a black box, nothing else, any advice?
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Fraps.com i use that for everything as it runs outside of the game and stores the screen shots in it's directory.
You can even do video with it too.
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I had this problem too on both my Nvidia cards. The only way I can get rid of it is to put CoH in windowed mode. |
Originally Posted by Grease Monkah
When I go to take a screenshot ingame I hit Prtsc and as of lately when i go to paste it on Paint it shows the picture as a black box, nothing else, any advice?
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Options->Graphics and Audio->Screen/UI = Windowed
The ATI cards dont appear to have this problem.
Hope this works.
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I have an ATI card and have the same problem.
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Originally Posted by crayhal
The ATI cards dont appear to have this problem.
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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
only thing that worked for me was switching to windowed mode,
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Originally Posted by crayhal
The only way I can get rid of it is to put CoH in windowed mode.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
You say "as of late," has anything changed? Drivers get updated? (And when IS the last time the drivers update?) Of course, Microsoft updates monthly - but I'd expect it to bite everyone, or everyone with some certain portion of a configuration, the same way.
Win7 64 bit, two systems (one ATI, one nVidia,) both properly take screenshots here. Non-windowed.
May also want help tracking this down in the Tech Issues section.
I have the same problem. I run COH full screened. The trick is to have another window (preferably a small one) that you alt-tab to so that COH is still visible in the background. Move the other window if needed then printscreen it. That should paste just fine for you.
When I go to take a screenshot ingame I hit Prtsc and as of lately when i go to paste it on Paint it shows the picture as a black box, nothing else, any advice?