Screenshots not working

[LazlowRave]

They used to work when pressing F12 but not anymore. F12 is the default hot-key for screenshots. I have no other hot-key mapped to F12 but in game, pressing F12 does not capture the screenshot and save to the steam screenshots folder in any/every game I play. Ideas?

[Qwerty]

Do you have the Steam Overlay currently enabled?

[LazlowRave]

Yes.

[LazlowRave]

The only work around, is during any game, I'l open overlay ALT+TAB, press F12, then can screenshot directly after closing the overlay WITHOUT pressing anything else besides F12. So it's not really a fix, but a definate workaround.

[Tuativenatined]

Alt + Printscreen will also work. Puts the pics in your pictures directory. Then you can upload them to steam.

[illNickA]

I had the same problem as many others, not being able to screenshot through Steam, but solved it by closing Steam and re-run it with admin rights.

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Can't screenshot with F12? Try this:
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-Close steam
-Right click Steam and then chose "run as admin"
-Start a game and try to screenshot

Good luck folks!

[Arcterian]

you need to enable "steam community in game" for it to work. Had the same problem until I had to enter settings and click on that, then after restarting the game screenshots worked like a charm

[WHITEFOX★]

I had this problem too!

No idea what I did to make it stop taking screenshots, I haven't been able to for a good month or so now.

In my first test I changed the shortcut key to Num Pad 9 (from F12) then changed it to NONE and then back again to F12 but it wouldn't enter/stayed blank so kept it as Num Pad 9. I did have the overlay on, didn't close the game beforehand though, it wouldn't take screenshots with the new key. So next I did the following:

I noticed that my 'SCREENSHOT FOLDER' was pointing toward a screenshot folder for one of the games I play, probably from me messing around last week trying to fix it :/

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\180710921\760\remote\232090

THIS IS WHAT I DID (with help from random threads/posts) TO FIX IT:

-Changed screenshot folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\180710921\760\remote
-Changed shortcut key to NONE
-Unchecked steam overlay
-Closed Steam & game then re-opened Steam as Admin
-Went to settings and set Num Pad 9 as keybind because F12 still stayed blank when pressed.
-Checked Steam Overlay
-Unchecked 'Save Uncompressed Copy' (as I had checked it earlier trying to figure out this thing)
-Started the game and pressed Num Pad 9 and it took a screenshot :D

HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE

[GODZLR]

dsf

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by illNickA:

I had the same problem as many others, not being able to screenshot through Steam, but solved it by closing Steam and re-run it with admin rights.

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Can't screenshot with F12? Try this:
-----------------------------------------------------

-Close steam
-Right click Steam and then chose "run as admin"
-Start a game and try to screenshot

Good luck folks!

Thanks worked for me. Run with Admin rights

[LazlowRave]

See, I never had to 'run as admin' with Steam and it worked just fine. I just re-installed Steam and viola. It's back up and running since.

I rechecked my hot-keys, checked in settings. One day I was taking screenshots with Steam Overlay, next day it just stopped. I didn't make any changes, no software updates. It was odd.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The Gforce experience and some other capture tools can mess with the overlay

[IstrateGaming]

Originally posted by illNickA:

I had the same problem as many others, not being able to screenshot through Steam, but solved it by closing Steam and re-run it with admin rights.

-----------------------------------------------------
Can't screenshot with F12? Try this:
-----------------------------------------------------

-Close steam
-Right click Steam and then chose "run as admin"
-Start a game and try to screenshot

Good luck folks!

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thanks

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Yes it seems to happen to me whenever I used my other capture tool Fraps. All I do then is re-assign the directory. From Steam Settings/In Game - add this again to screenshot folder. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\148981505\760\remote\496460\screenshots
Nvideo Experience overlay should be disabled as well.
I eventually uninstalled that.
F12 maybe assigned to something else.

Good Luck

[Cerastes]

Why doesn't Steam just fix it so it works?

[Doodle Blanket]

MHW was the only steam game I couldn't screenshot. Then i got stunned in battle and spammed my Xbox 360 controller buttons and for some reason that turned on my windows magnifier????? and my game was super zoomed in.......BUT AFTER THAT MY SCREENSHOTS WORK LIKE W T FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. So just do that ya'll LOL I don't even fackin know