crusher8576 Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 Does anyone know any good free screen capture software that allows me to take multiple screenshots while in a video game (specifically, battlefield 2). i want to be able to take screenshots, then have them be automatically saved to a specific folder, so i dont have to exit the game, paste the picture and save it, then start the whole game again just to take another screenshot.any suggestions?p.s. or if anyone knows how to make it so when i press print screen, the picture will be saved to a folder, instead of being copied to the clip board. that would be good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 most games have a screenshot feature built within, I havent played BF2 so I am not familiar with that one.As for a program to do what you want, I only know of Fraps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Fraps isn't free, but it is the best audio/video + image capture program for games. Usually the screen capture button in games is F5, though. There's a freeware one called GameCam v1.3 (latest). I've never tried it personally, but I'd say Fraps is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher8576 Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 yea i got fraps, its pretty good cuz the only drawback for the trial version when taking screenshots, is that its not compressed, and i dont care about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sars! Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 If you also want to make vids of your screen, you shouldn't even try to do it... I made a very short CoD2 video and it was 200mb+ of size! To make normal screenshots you should look at options-controls at the game, there you usually find the button you need to press to make a screenshot! (They are usually saved in your BF2 program files folder in that way)Sars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 If you also want to make vids of your screen, you shouldn't even try to do it... I made a very short CoD2 video and it was 200mb+ of size!This is because Fraps saves the captured video as Raw AVI. It has to preserve the quality as best it can, given the program settings. The idea is for the visual difference between how you game appears and the captured video to be minimal. If you select "60 FPS" in Fraps, it will do less compression-on-the-fly and thus the quality of your video will be slightly less than that of the original, but at the same time, you'll get higher FPS during a Fraps capture (some people hate Fraps because it lowers their FPS too much).Fraps splits files into 4 GB chunks, I believe, for every 15-20 minutes or so. For people with large HDs, filesize isn't really an issue, because you'll most likely be editing the video and encoding it to DivX/XviD/etc to fit on CDs, or just to get rid of the huge raw AVIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendrag Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 X-Firescreenshots can be taken ingame, and are saved to a screenshots folder. no exiting game required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sars! Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 X-Firescreenshots can be taken ingame, and are saved to a screenshots folder. no exiting game requiredXfire requires the making of an account, btw... I use it too but it's more for chatting anyways (ingame chatting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Nice. Bookmarked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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