Screenshots not working

I have always used the Print Screen button on my KB to take screen dumps that have gone automatically into my /CityofHeroes/screenshots/ folder. However, this has stopped happening. Now it seems Print screen doesn't do anything. I have check my keymapping, and Print Screen is still selected to take jpg screenshots, so I don't know what else to check. Anyone else have this problem before and can help me correct this?

It won't do that outside of the 3D environment, for example, in the costume creator window.

See here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Screenshot

As an aside, I had a similar issue where when I first installed the game on my Vista box, using Print Screen for screenshots worked fine then out of the blue just randomly stopped working.

I fixed it accidentally when I was playing with the /screenshot command.

After seeing that the captures worked that way, I tried the Print Screen button again and it seemed to have resolved the issue.

I hope that helps!

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I see. The /screenshot command is working. Dunno why Print Screen button is not. Yes. I am on Vista.

Tangent: for a long time I did exactly what Paragonwiki mentions, although I used the P key: I bound p to screenshotui 0$$screenshot and shift+p to screenshotui 1$$screenshot. However, I tend to sometimes take two pics: one with and one without the UI, so I'm often hitting p twice. Its honestly never occurred to me until recently to just bind p to "screenshotui 0$$screenshot$$screenshotui 1$$screenshot". As long as you have a computer reasonably fast enough to take two screenshots in rapid succession, which I do, I now always get a pair of screenshots. What's more is they tend to pair themselves nicely by filename: screenshot_X.jpg and screenshot_X_1.jpg, again as long as your system can take the caps quickly enough.

I have absolutely no idea why this never occurred to me in seven years until not that long ago.

I may just start using the snipping tool as it lets me resize right over top of the CoH window.

A windows utility tool like the "Snipping tool" or a 3rd party screencapture application with it's own settings may actually be the cause of your problems.

I have an application like the snipping tool(so I've heard) for my Windows XP, it's default capture key is printscreen. If I accidentally leave it open and try to take a screenshot in CoH it will be handled and saved into the application's save directory instead of CoHs.

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