Screenshots?

[Mobhack]

Sadly, taking a normal screenshot isn't working, which is why I posted. I'm getting ye olde 'black screen with lots of sparkly odd bits scattered over the screen' bug.

In full screen DirectX mode?. It is using a 256 colour fully palletised mode then. You may need to tell your DirectX screen capture programme that fact.

(edit: which is not the same as the windows 256 colour palette, it uses the "reserved" slots in the palette that Windows uses for GUI, so if I had used yes/no/cancel standard windows message boxes (I experimented with these and they worked fine in windowed mode then they came up in weird colours in F/S DirectX mode, some with cycling colours as I recall ! )

Search for "palette.lbm" - that file is loaded as the basic game palette file by WinVFX. The DirectX screen capture progamme may need that info?.

(In windowed mode, Winvfx uses the direct R,G,B values and computes for the windows colour depth and not a direct load into the hardware pallette register. But that is about all I know as it is a third-party GFX system

Cheers
Andy

[Zebedee]

Thanks Mobhack.

Just been playing about with the Ultima utility and that seems to work for me (despite the 600+ pictures it takes for every sceenshot ).

Just thought it odd that the windowed version still had this problem. Must be something with my system I guess if your screenshots were taken with printscreen.

Will dig out a direct X capture programme and try your advice as that may be a better solution to my problem.

Gracias again,

Zeb

[Mobhack]

All shots taken with windowed mode, I always use full colour mode (32 bit), not 16 bit if that makes any difference.

Cheers
Andy

[BluntForce]

So what utility is everyone using to take screenshots using the free version and having to run that special .cmd command to run the game

I want to post some AAR's of the game but cant seem to get any screenshots taken with PRNTSCN and a pasted, I get a garbled screen with no image

[Imp]

Loads work I like Ifranview its free & can handle any file format, be set to take screen shots automaticaly or upon pressing hot keys