The PC Gaming Screenshot Thread V. 2

[zarx]

pezus said:

zarx said:

Snesboy said:
What do you guys use to screencap?

I have just been using Steam/Fraps/EVGA precision, just remember to capture BMP or PNG for fraps as the JPEGs Fraps/EVGA captures are complete shit, overly compressed. You can always use a photo editing program to convert the lossless files to high quality JPEGs like I do for smaller files. Steam is ok but if you look closely you can see artifacting in certain spots, it's roughly = to a photoshop JPEG at 9 quality compression. I compress my BMP screens to 10 usually which gives the best quality to file size ratio IMO, you can do 12 if you don't want any visible image degradation even for a close inspection.

Here is a comparison of Steam, recompressed FRAPS BMP to 10 JPEG and 12 JPEG and FRAPS JPEG

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2652/spacemarine201202031954.jpg

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2652/spacemarine201202031954.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6250/2012020300003.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/2876/spacemarine201202032009.jpg

See if you can tell which is which

aparently my raw BMP is to big to upload

Fraps tells me I need to pay for BMP or PNG to work...:/

yea you do, the main reason a brought a licence lol, then I found out that EVGA precision does the same for free...