Crysis screenshot detail?

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 16:58

does anyone know why all my AA and anisotropic filtering are removed from screenshots i take ingame using F12? and if so how to fix it

Inazuma · 15 Jan 2008 at 16:59

Are you sure about that? Post one of the pics, let's see..

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:35

everything looks far less jaggy in game, i took that with x2 edge AA and x16 anisotropic, looks much better in game, cant understand why? :confused:

does it make a difference what format the screenshot is saved as, JPEG is quite low quality isn't it?

GhostlyPea · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:38

Well it may be possibly because your scaling the screen shot down? Whats it like at 1:1?

- Pea0n

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:39

Pea0n said:
Well it may be possibly because your scaling the screen shot down? Whats it like at 1:1?

- Pea0n

the exact same but bigger, lol :confused:

ergonomics · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:14

what is the command you use to take the screenshot? when i do it, it ends up kind of making a montage of different parts of the screen, and puts them in random order, like one of those puzzles where u move the pieces around until it makes a picture. wierd

and tbh everything looks better ingame as youre moving around and engaging in doing things

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:18

i simply use F12 key

ergonomics · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:19

Gashman said:
i simply use F12 key

interesting. its just you can set the res of a screenshot in the config, so you can make a huge 4000x3000 res picture, which looks great.

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:33

ergonomics said:
interesting. its just you can set the res of a screenshot in the config, so you can make a huge 4000x3000 res picture, which looks great.

you use that key next to 1 to open the console and tell it to take screenshot right?

Inazuma · 15 Jan 2008 at 22:48

F12 does the job fine.
And the screeny you showed doesn't really show any bad AA or AF. Anyway, it's most likely you're noticing the blur effects more in still screenshots.

Gashman · 15 Jan 2008 at 23:27

SebC said:
F12 does the job fine.
And the screeny you showed doesn't really show any bad AA or AF. Anyway, it's most likely you're noticing the blur effects more in still screenshots.

so how do some people manage to get such detailed screenshots? :confused:

morguk · 17 Jan 2008 at 10:53

Press the 'PrtScr' key.
Go into paint, edit, then paste.
Save as BMP file.

synixx · 17 Jan 2008 at 18:42

Gashman said:
the exact same but bigger, lol

the amount of pixels in game is a lot more than that of the picture posted. maybe there's a way to take higher res screenshots?

Gashman · 17 Jan 2008 at 23:11

synixx said:
the amount of pixels in game is a lot more than that of the picture posted. maybe there's a way to take higher res screenshots?

maybe indeed, but i got nothing :confused:

z0mbi3 · 17 Jan 2008 at 23:14

Do you game at 800 x 600?

Gashman · 17 Jan 2008 at 23:16

z0mbi3 said:
Do you game at 800 x 600?

1280*1024 on 17" viewsonic, i have 20" WS as well but i use 17 for crysis

Black Dragon · 18 Jan 2008 at 04:05

Ingame screenshot functions always take screenshots in poor quality that i've seen, a helluva lot of em even save them as .png files >.< Fraps too takes poor quality ones.

If you really want them to look their best then just printscreen and paste into paint. More hassle, but more quality.

Gashman · 18 Jan 2008 at 12:41

Black Dragon said:
Ingame screenshot functions always take screenshots in poor quality that i've seen, a helluva lot of em even save them as .png files >.< Fraps too takes poor quality ones.

If you really want them to look their best then just printscreen and paste into paint. More hassle, but more quality.

that don't work, i tried print screen and never got a screenshot :confused:

Black Dragon · 19 Jan 2008 at 03:45

Try Ctrl + Print screen then paste it into paint.

Tombo · 19 Jan 2008 at 04:10

Black Dragon said:
Ingame screenshot functions always take screenshots in poor quality that i've seen, a helluva lot of em even save them as .png files >.< Fraps too takes poor quality ones.

If you really want them to look their best then just printscreen and paste into paint. More hassle, but more quality.

I don't understand, it seems like you're saying png is crap.

Gashman said:
JPEG is quite low quality isn't it?

It's not the format itself that has a bad quality, just the amount of compression the program is using, a full quality jpeg will look the same as any bmp or png.