Screenshots are blurry (even uncompressed ones)

[jetCold]

I've tested this across probably 20 different games, so I know that it's not a symptom of just one game. My screenshots are turning out blurrier than what's shown on screen -- it's not a matter of JPG compression because I'm looking at the uncompressed PNG screenshots.

It's very noticeable on just about everything, but probably mostly so on text. If I just go to a screen of text (like a settings screen or something) and take a screenshot with Steam via F12, and then hit the PrintScreen key and paste the copy from my Windows clipboard, the pasted Windows shot is crisp and shows exactly what my game looks like. The Steam screenshot, however, has muddy, blurry text.

I really need to get this figured out. I tried looking at the nVidia control panel thinking it might be something in there, but didn't see anything that looked relevant.

Any ideas, guys?

Thanks in advance.

[Forcen]

No examples? Most of your uploaded ones look fine?

[jetCold]

Цитата допису Forcen:

No examples? Most of your uploaded ones look fine?

The screenshots on my profile are all old, JPG-compressed shots. Those are going to have artifacts all over the place anyways, that's not really what I mean.

Here's a side-by-side comparison: https://www.burstattack.com/misc/blurry-screenshots.png

[Forcen]

Do you have some high-res monitor or high dpi screen? What resolution do you run the desktop in and is the games using the same?

If you go to Steam>help>system info> and paste that info here it might tell us.

Is it just the interface? Crisp polygons on the characters?

I'm kind of curious to see a whole screenshot from steam, the PNG one with both UI thats blurry and the rest blurry or not.

[Nerd]

The Steam screnshot capture feature uses highly compressed JPG's. I recommend either using Print screen and converting the shots via FastStone or use Afterburner to capture uncompressed JPG or PNG's.
I never use steams F12 to capture shots as the compression is too noticable.

[jetCold]

Цитата допису Pickle:

The Steam screnshot capture feature uses highly compressed JPG's. I recommend either using Print screen and converting the shots via FastStone or use Afterburner to capture uncompressed JPG or PNG's.
I never use steams F12 to capture shots as the compression is too noticable.

Steam allows you to capture uncompressed PNG screenshots if you enable the setting. This is what I'm referring to, I mentioned that specifically.

[jetCold]

Цитата допису Forcen:

Do you have some high-res monitor or high dpi screen? What resolution do you run the desktop in and is the games using the same?

If you go to Steam>help>system info> and paste that info here it might tell us.

Is it just the interface? Crisp polygons on the characters?

I'm kind of curious to see a whole screenshot from steam, the PNG one with both UI thats blurry and the rest blurry or not.

My monitor isn't anything special. It's 1920x1200 and I run my games at various resolutions depending on the game, but generally either 1920x1200 fullscreen or 1920x1080 windowed.

Unfortunately it's not just the interface, it does this effect across the entire screenshot.

I'm a bit frustrated at this point, I have to re-do probably 20 hours of work because I just gave these the benefit of the doubt and didn't stop and look closely enough to realize that all of the screenshots I was taking looked like piss.

Per your request here's a screenshot from Baldur's Gate 2 showing the effect across the entire shot: https://www.burstattack.com/misc/bg2-blur.png

Though this shot doesn't really convey much information on its own without a frame of reference. It does the same thing on every game I've tried so far though, including more modern stuff.

[Forcen]

Hmm, that is still a all sprite based game.. I'm wondering how the UI and character models look on a 3d game like the witcher 1 or torchlight. (saw those in your library)

Do you think the game looks better than that screenshot when you play it? The portrait in the top right looks pretty crisp?
Found png screenshot of BG2, looks about the same to me? It's a lot less zoomed out but the side interface looks similar? http://press.baldursgateii.com/images/5-PC-English.png

EDIT: I guess the text is a bit crisper in my link? rest looks fine though?

[jetCold]

Okay, I feel a bit relieved now, and also sort of like an ass.

A few days back I'd been inspecting some screenshots from other games and thought they looked oddly blurry, and then when I encountered the discrepancy in this game I just assumed it was the same issue. It wasn't.

After going back and double-checking some other games, Steam's screenshots for those are fine.

It still is doing it for Baldur's Gate (across the entire screen, it's not only the text/UI), but since it's limited to this game it's not nearly as big of an issue as I'd thought. It's got to be something to do with the game settings or rendering settings that are being applied to this title specifically.

I'll continue to dig around and hopefully get this figured out, but thankfully all of my shots of other games aren't wasted.

Forcen, I appreciate your help!

[jetCold]

Цитата допису Nightenhelser:

Did you just want hits to your website?

Are you kidding me?

1) There's no website at that domain.

2) If these look the same to you: https://www.burstattack.com/misc/blurry-screenshots.png then I would recommend a trip to the optometrist.

[Forcen]

Nice that it solved itself. That BG2 thing looks like it's to zoomed in or something.. Can be solved with some help from the devs.:)

Nightenhelser: you are either way off base or trolling.. Image is fine and you can see the difference. What is the issue?

[Snapjak]

Yeah that just looks like BG2 being BG2. Here's one of mine.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892307931

[ZERO]

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[Manslaughter]

I know it's been years since this conversation but I can confirm that OP is 100% correct. Steam still uses some sort of compression even though it labels its screenshots as "uncompressed" and they're all pngs. I took a test screenshot with Steam and one with Nvidia GeForceExperience and the difference was in 5.5 MBs!! A whole 5.5 MBs... You can see the difference here. Both pngs, both the exact same resolution, also taken basically at the exact same time, only a few seconds apart but in photo mode so there was virtually no difference in what could be seen on the screen.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711674339837083810/838890529206698044/unknown.png