Full-Screen games not taking screenshots?

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--What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open ZScreen  3.12.3.0Beta
2. Launch a full-screen game (in my case Dead Space).
3. Attempt to take a Screen Shot.

--What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: When I exit the game, to find the output folder full of full-size
screenshots of the game I was playing.

Actual result: Nothing. No screenshots in output folder.

--What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ZScreen 3.12.3.0 Beta on WindowS XP.

--Please provide any additional information below.
ZScreen takes images just fine of Windows things, but it takes no
screenshots of full-screen games. Since I installed ZScreen for the
singular purpose of taking large numbers of full-screen snapshots of Dead
Space in order to illustrate the Dead Space wiki, this presents a major
problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ShadowDr...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2009 at 3:29

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Devs, is our http://zscreen.googlecode.com/files/ZScreen-3.19.1.0-setup.exe 
capable of 
this requirement? 

Original comment by mcored on 18 Nov 2009 at 3:36

• Changed state: Accepted

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3.19.1.0 does not seem to be capable - I just tried it with Dead Space, and it 
could
not capture images of the game when using the PrintScreen button to try and 
take a
snapshot of the whole screen.

This is highly frustrating. I just need a simple "press button, get snapshot of 
the
whole screen at full resoloution in specified output folder" mechanic, as Dead 
Space
was not made with a Screenshot function (being a console port). Are there any 
other
programs which are capable of meeting my requirements?

Original comment by ShadowDr...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2009 at 5:13

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fraps http://www.fraps.com is specifically designed for this purpose 
ShadowDragon8685. 
See how you go with that. 

Original comment by mcored on 18 Nov 2009 at 5:22

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Fraps is a commercial program, and I haven't got $37 to spare. (I could buy a 
new
game to make screenshots of for that much money.) I did find another program 
called
Screenshoter that appears to offer the functionality I want (it did 
successfully take
test shots of Dead Space's menu screen.)

It's kind of a shame, since I liked zScreen's interface, except for it being 
somewhat
unclear about how to simply do "save into a designated folder" functionality.

Original comment by ShadowDr...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2009 at 5:39

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Paths where ZScreen saves data is in this tab: 
http://imagebin.ca/img/i1bG_N.png

A custom directory could be set using the Advanced tab: 
http://imagebin.ca/img/Ey80sf.png

It is only a matter time when ZScreen supports screenshots from DirectX based 
application. Glad you found a workaround. :) 

Original comment by mcored on 18 Nov 2009 at 9:01

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Issue 370 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by mcored on 13 May 2011 at 1:12