Why can't I press "Print Scrn" and get a screenshot?

[RykerrK]

Every game that behaves this way, I question immensely. This dumps a black screen in mspaint. Why?

[RykerrK]

As a note, I don't think Steam Screenshots capture overlays like MSI Afterburner, do they?

I'd find that tool more useful if I could immediately click a button and have it shown to me in Windows from the tool, but that doesn't show up until after you exit the program. That aside, I'm not sure why a card game is blanking out system screenshots anyways.

[RykerrK]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jimmy Hunter:

F12, Pull up overlay, screenshots, post screenshot. Then you click on screenshot, copy link, send link.

Much less effort than using a 3rd party.

Yet more effort that "Print Scrn", Start -> MSPaint [Enter], Ctrl+V, Alt+F, Save (a)s, desktop, enter. It doesn't look like it's less effort but it takes about five seconds in keystrokes to save a SS to desktop to do what you want with it. No uploading, no web browsing, it's just ready to go.

[DJDiceZ]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย RykerrK:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jimmy Hunter:

F12, Pull up overlay, screenshots, post screenshot. Then you click on screenshot, copy link, send link.

Much less effort than using a 3rd party.

Yet more effort that "Print Scrn", Start -> MSPaint [Enter], Ctrl+V, Alt+F, Save (a)s, desktop, enter. It doesn't look like it's less effort but it takes about five seconds in keystrokes to save a SS to desktop to do what you want with it. No uploading, no web browsing, it's just ready to go.

As far as just saving a screenshot on your computer goes, steam is the fastest option.

F12. Done, you have your screenshot saved on the computer. You just need to find it. But saving it is one and only one step.

That's less steps than Prnt Scrn (1), start paint (2), paste on paint(3), save it(4).

However if you want to send it in a discord chat for example, it'd be more steps with steam, whereas you could just Prnt Scrn, paste in chat. You don't get to crop, though.

[󠀡⁧⁧󠀡]

use sharex

you can take ss and it'll get automatically uploaded to image sites with 1 click. the url will also be copied to clipboard.
just need to set everything up first. useful long term.

[DuckSonata]

You damn spoiled kids. In my day, a screenshot was only 3 pixels wide and 2 pixels high, and it took up 17 floppy disks. We would have to walk to the store to buy more disks for each new screenshot, 10 miles in the pouring rain (it was always raining back then because Al Gore hadn't invented global warming yet), uphill both ways. And we were grateful for it.

[RykerrK]

That's not true, it was only two floppies for a 3x2 GIF as long as you were cool with monochrome

For me it's all the dinking around with finding it. And again, if it doesn't save overlay info, it's not that useful to me, specifically not for the case I was complaining about. I don't want a snapshot of the game, I wanted a screenshot of the screen. But Slay the Spire said no. I'm not even sure what we're arguing; why does the screen get blacked out? That's dumb. Throw me 40 other games, 39 of them allow for this. I just want nice, uncompressed print screen from the Windows UI without screwing with all this other stuff. :p

"Slay the Spire breaks the PrintScrn Button, And Here's Why This is a Good Thing"

[DJDiceZ]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย RykerrK:

I'm not even sure what we're arguing;

Efficiency. Which you've given your own thought about aswell.

[RykerrK]

I mean, I get that OTHER people are making that argument, but the question was "Why can't I Printscrn" not "how do I print screen". I know HOW to get a screen grab if I need it, and yes, I'm sure there are ways to shave a second or two off my method.

My way literally takes me five seconds to have an uncompressed screen waiting for me on the desktop with all overlays included without quitting the game, making a shortcut to the Steam screenshot folder (which may or may not be compressed and may or may not include overlay graphics) or installing even more third party software, AND it works on virtually every game I want to do it on. It even works on Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures, which is a Dosbox emulation.

I just want to know why this card game superimposes a black screen over Windows' built-in screen capture. This isn't the first time I've run into a game where I can't do it (I think it's the third), it's just the most baffling case. I'm not trying to speedrun a screen snapshot. It SHOULD just work. I don't get the "Well why are you just doing it with integrated software and system functions, there's 90 other ways to do it that would shave clicks off your process!" commentary.

[Khor]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย RykerrK:

I mean, I get that OTHER people are making that argument, but the question was "Why can't I Printscrn"

Probably some weird interaction with the graphic drivers?

Edit, with other random stuff: You can probably try borderless fullscreen (i can Printscrnin borderless) and/or switching to libgdx

[RykerrK]

Thought I was running borderless in StS already.