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[Sakar]

Hi all. Nice site!

I'm trying to capture screenshots in SSI's Soldiers at War but I'm running into some problems on two machines, 1) laptop with Win98 and 2) desktop w/WinXP.

On the laptop, I can't seem to get the screen capture keys to be recognized. I've tried Gadwin PrintScreen and IrfanView so far.

The regular Windows "Print Screen" key *does* grab a screenshot but it looks horrible (colors are all wrong) when I paste it into Paint. When I try using the key mapped to Gadwin or IrfanView, nothing happens.

On the desktop, the screen capture keys work fine and I am able to capture a perfect screenshot with Irfanview but, unfortunately, I can't get the game to change resolution! Besides, I really want to run this on the laptop--I'm using the desktop just for test purposes.

Anybody have any clue what's going on with the laptop? It's a Thinkpad T20, P3 700, 128 Megs RAM, S3 video with 8 megs RAM, Win98 with latest Direct X 9.

Thanks!

[Frodo]

Hi Sakar

I've recently been told how to do screenshots.

If you can play then game in DosBox, then pres Crtl & F5. That takes a good screenshot. Then there should be a subfolder in your DosBox folder called 'snaps'. Your screenshots will be in there. k:

Does this help at all.

[troop18546]

And if that don't work, try fraps. Takes video AND screenshots.

[blastradius14]

Certain games (like Age of Kings) do that when you press print screen. The only way to prevent that from happening without a program like dos-box is to run it in a window, instead of fullscreen. It is most likely due to a multilayering or custom color palette not used by paint.

I suggest dos-box.

[Sakar]

Thanks for the help.

I've tried Fraps but it doesn't support 8-bit color.

Does DosBox work with DirectX games? I'll give it a try if it does.

[blastradius14]

Dos box runs dos-games mostly. Win32 programs will probably not work on dos-box. At least, the ones that were made for windows in mind

[Sakar]

Originally posted by blastradius14@Aug 30 2005, 08:18 PM
Dos box runs dos-games mostly. Win32 programs will probably not work on dos-box. At least, the ones that were made for windows in mind

Bummer.

Well, I suppose I can play it on my XP desktop since IrfanView seems to work fine for capturing the screenies. I just wish I could figure out why the capture key doesn't work on my laptop....

[Rogue]

Digital camera can help too... LOL

If you don't have one, then you can try SnagIT.

[Sakar]

Finally got it working on my XP desktop with IrfanView. I had to set the game to run in Win98 compatibility mode and in 256 colors which allowed me to set the resolution in-game. IrfanView does the rest. k:

Now if I could just get the game to recognize IrfanView's hotkey on my Win98 laptop then I'd be able to play in my bedroom while my wife watches those ridiculous reality shows!! :crazy: