Windows Screenshots Cant Be Taken

Industries of Titan Bugs and Known Issues
#1

Build Number / Patch Number: p21119-v1802-S

Type of Bug: Visual/Bug Reporting/Sharing

Blocking Progression: No

Result of Save/Load: No

Short description:

When trying to take a windows screenshot in the menu (or game in general), using Windows-Shift-S, it switches to windowed mode on desktop, then back to fullscreen again, and it isnt possible to take a windows screenshot at all.

Reproduction Steps:

  • Use Windows 10 and open the game.
  • Have the game on fullscreen (and not your desktop resolution, may be necessary)
  • Press the key combo Windows-Shift-S to make a screenshot
  • Game drops to desktop/windowed mode and switches back
  • Screenshot UI never appears and is “skipped”
#2

Hi @QuantaCat - this is the first time I’ve tried this and yeah you’re correct! It does seem that having your game at a lower resolution than your actual native resolution is a key step - is there a reason you’re running your game at a lower resolution than normal?

#3

Yeah, performance, really. My main res is 4K, I run the game at 1440p so my framerate doesnt suffer too much.
I have an RX 580, not quite enough to run 4K smoothly on GPU heavy games.

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#4

Ok, I’ll have a word with the programmer in charge of settings etc and see what can be done :slight_smile: I don’t know if I can say something will happen soon though :frowning: (I actually didn’t even know you could take screenshots like this on Windows, haha, I’ve always used ShareX)

#5

Used to too, as alternative to the Snipping Tool, until they rolled that up into the windows screenshot feature. Dev myself so taking screenshots for testing is super important ;D

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#6

@QuantaCat programmer said - it sounds like Windows thinks you’re alt-tabbing because you’re in fullscreen mode. He recommends you try running the game at 4k and setting the resolution scale to like 50% to get the desired performance.

Actually, if you could provide the name of any game that DOESN’T do this behaviour that you also play regularly, we’d like to have a look at it and see how they’re doing things… thanks for your help!

#7

@byg_alexa Ill do you even one better, a game in UE4 that doesnt do that, and is still in early access: Satisfactory. Im sure the Coffee Stain guys are pretty helpful with that ;D

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#8

Sadly, still persists in 0.8.0. (experimental)

#9

Win-Shift-S does a rectangle select screenshot and I’m not surprised the game doesn’t support it.

If you want to screenshot a window you are using (eg. Industries of Titan ) use Alt+PrntScrn instead.
or Win-PrntScrn

I’m pretty sure Satisfactory always run in Borderless Fullscreen and thus is always a window.

#10

Well yeah, Satsifactory runs borderless with lower res than desktop res. That is not an option for Industries of Titan, but I do hope they will implement.

Actually, testing it out as I had missed the resolution scale suggestion, it doesnt work like setting to a lower res, I normally play at 1440p full screen and it gets ok enough framerate. when I use 50% of borderless at 2160p, framerate sadly suffers almost as bad as when I dont use the resolution scale. Is it possible its not implemented properly yet? or did it require a restart that wasn’t mentioned when changing that setting?

(EDIT: tested again, even after a restart, the lag is still as if it were at 2160p, it feels like the resolution scaling is having no effect on performance)