Guild Wars 2

Hey, all.

I was taking lots of screen shots not too long ago, so I know that at one point, I was doing this right. But all of a sudden, when I take a screen shot, it caps my desktop instead of the game window.

Is anyone else having this problem? Is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Haven’t seen that one, but if you rename a screenshot in the folder, it won’t save your screenshots anymore. As well, I’ve heard it won’t take anymore after 1000 so you’ll need to either create another ‘Screens’ folder and rename the full one, or move those screenshots.

I have run into this before in other games. Make sure all background programs are closed at the time, you might be having one trying to impose over the game window. Additionally, make sure you’re in full screen mode and not playing in a windowed version of the game.

May not fix the problem, but we can hope.

What I was doing was hiding the UI, pressing print screen, and pasting the screen caps directly into Photoshop. Which was working fine. Notably, Trillian and Photoshop were open when I was doing this before (and it worked) and now the same programs are open in the background and now it’s screencapping my desktop.

To my knowledge, I have not re-named any of the screencaps in the folder, because as I said before, I was pasting into Photoshop as I took the caps.

I’m also playing in fullscreen.

Thanks for the help so far. Unfortunately, it’s not working yet.

Update:

It appears they’re saving to the files the right way, but I can’t paste my screens into Photoshop. Is this something new they’re doing? Intentional?