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RE: Print Screen
why it's black:
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The explanation is if you have harware acceleration enabled, all rendering of the movie is done on your graphics card. When you do a screen capture, it gets what is in the screen buffer before it is sent to the graphics card, so that data isnt there yet. If you turn acceleration off, the movie is forced to be rendered by software and is so in the screen buffer before it is sent to the gfx card and hence can be captured.

to fix:
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1. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: None
Bypass graphics card

2. Press the print screen key on your keyboard.
Saves the entire desktop as an image to the clipboard.

3. Paste into your favourite graphics editor. Even paint will do.
Now you can see what was saved. From here you can do what you like with it, saving might be a good idea wink.gif

4. Right-click the desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > Hardware acceleration: Full (or whatever it was beforehand)
Return graphics settings back to normal

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01-08-2006 06:37 PM
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Print Screen - by michael_m91 on 01-08-2006 at 05:46 PM
RE: Print Screen - by [MR] on 01-08-2006 at 06:21 PM
RE: Print Screen - by Supersonicdarky on 01-08-2006 at 06:37 PM
RE: Print Screen - by ShawnZ on 01-08-2006 at 06:43 PM
RE: Print Screen - by michael_m91 on 01-08-2006 at 07:32 PM
RE: Print Screen - by M73A on 01-08-2006 at 08:52 PM


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