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GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

Andy Stra

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Andy Stra » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:31:50

This might have been answered a 100 times already or is covered in some
manual (that I don't have access to here), if so apologies.

Pressing [print screen] during a replay produces a GPLssXX.pbf file of
0kb on my Geforce at home (and my TNT Vanta at work). It is fine on my
Voodoo based systems. Is there a ini file tweak or something I am
missing?

TIA

Andy

Mika Takal

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Mika Takal » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 06:39:20

no. Opengl or D3D don't support taking screenshots. Those renderers are
betas....what else you expect from them? :)

You can take screenshots by pressing prnt scrn and then pasting the image to
paint or paint shop pro or whatever....or you could use a commercial
software called Hypersnap.

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Mika Takala

Andy Stra

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Andy Stra » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 06:56:10

Cheers, Hypersnap is only going to give me one at a time though which is
not much use for writing race reports which have say 130 captures...
unless I want to get RSI in a real hurry!


> > Pressing [print screen] during a replay produces a GPLssXX.pbf file of
> > 0kb on my Geforce at home (and my TNT Vanta at work). It is fine on my
> > Voodoo based systems. Is there a ini file tweak or something I am
> > missing?

> no. Opengl or D3D don't support taking screenshots. Those renderers are
> betas....what else you expect from them? :)

> You can take screenshots by pressing prnt scrn and then pasting the image to
> paint or paint shop pro or whatever....or you could use a commercial
> software called Hypersnap.

> --
> Mika Takala

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Andy
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Ian

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Ian » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:08:37

If you press F11, hypersnap will repeat capture, or so the help file says :)

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Ian P
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Maxx

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Maxx » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:41:05

You need to set Capture->Special Capture to be able to screencap from
D3D. You then need to set capture->Auto Save to make Hypersnap
automatically save each screenshot you take.

It stores them as sequentially numbered .bmp files but there are
numerous graphics apps that let you do bulk conversions to .jpg.

Maxx



Andy Stra

GPL PBF Screenshots Dont Work with Nvidia Cards?

by Andy Stra » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:12:35

Thanks for this... much appreciated.


> You need to set Capture->Special Capture to be able to screencap from
> D3D. You then need to set capture->Auto Save to make Hypersnap
> automatically save each screenshot you take.

> It stores them as sequentially numbered .bmp files but there are
> numerous graphics apps that let you do bulk conversions to .jpg.

> Maxx



> >Cheers, Hypersnap is only going to give me one at a time though which is
> >not much use for writing race reports which have say 130 captures...
> >unless I want to get RSI in a real hurry!

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Andy
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