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MadSlob said:
Hi...I tried to use the new printscreen utility but when i paste to MS paint all i seem to get is a blur of colour and some vague outlines..it is a very minor problem as the game itself work great for me but i thought i'd see if others have had the same problem...System specs AMD XP1800+ 512mbs ram nvidia FX5600XT gfx with 128mb ram - WinXP pro running desktop in 1024x768 res 16 million colours regards MD
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There's no "printscreen utility" - just the normal windows desktop capture functions.
In the "
Tuning Your Machine" section of the manual it says
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There is no need of any external screen capture mode when using Windowed Mode. The normal Windows ALT-PRINTSCREEN will copy the window to the Windows paste buffer. Simply open up a normal paint programme (such as the supplied Microsoft utility) and select paste.
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I take it you were trying to use the Windows Alt+Printscreen in
Full Screen DirectX mode?.
Cheers
Andy
BTW - there is also a readme text file in the \game notes folder dealing with the subject.
Edit - I forgot to look at the attachment, and yes, from that I see there, you were trying to use the windows desktop Alt+printscreen capture function in full-screen DirectX.
In full screen mode, the actual hardware palette is used, but in Windowed mode DirectX uses a cooperative non-palleted mode which the windows desktop can interpret as it maps the 256 colour pallette into RGB that the desktop understands. It's slower as a result of that mapping, of course.