How to take screenshots for halo pc?

bgd4sports · Post by **bgd4sports** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:32 pm

could anyone tell me how to take screenshots in halo PC? probably a dumb question... I think that you need to change something in the properties but I'm not sure.

edwinmcdunlap · Post by **edwinmcdunlap** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:40 pm

Here's what you do:

1. Press the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard when in Halo
2. Minimize Halo, and open Paint or any other image editing tool.
3. Go to Edit>Paste and you should see your screen capture.
4. Save your image in whatever format you want

Hope this helps you

If you need any more detail on this, just PM me or something

prm64612 · Post by **prm64612** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:07 pm

not to rule out the print screen button use, but using a program so you dont have to keep minimizing halo is worth it, to me...
My suggestion would be Snag-it, which is available at http://www.techsmith.com

EDIT: I wouldnt use snag-it for recording video of halo, or camtasia, they both suck at recording things that use directX

bgd4sports · Post by **bgd4sports** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:51 pm

Thanks for the help! For some idiotic reason i was hitting F12 instead of print screen... im so stupid sometimes.

I also found out another way to get screenshots. Right click for properties, then go to target. After the adress add "-screenshot". It should look like this:

"D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -screenshot