Screenshots in renpy

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I wanted to make screenshot of a scene in a renpy game but I got message in a form of a small line of text in one of the game's window's top corners"Failed to save screenshot as pathtothegame'sfolder\screenshot0001.png.". I am getting this error with all renpy games, no matter how many times I am redownloading them, so I don't think that it's the game problem. Also, I think that it's only my problem, because at the time when I started having this error, I saw other people uploading screenshots in some threads.

I don't know what the problem is , what to do with it or where to ask for help. Is it a problem with the folder? I keep all games that I downloaded from F95 ZONE in my "downloads" folder. I've always had them there and I never had that problem.

I tried to find solution on internet, but I din't find anything. Please, somebody, help me, or point me to some website where I cand find solution or help.

Thanks.
 
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bas

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Are you extracting the games from the zip files before playing them? Sounds like you're just going into the zips with Windows Explorer and playing from there.
 

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I wanted to make screenshot of a scene in a renpy

Create a screen shot


1, Open game when you get to scene you want press prt top row of keyboard.(usually next to f12 )
2, open paint
3 ,paste into paint
4 ,crop borders out
5, save

voila 1 screen shot
 
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Are you extracting the games from the zip files before playing them? Sounds like you're just going into the zips with Windows Explorer and playing from there.
I am extracting the games from zip folder.

Create a screen shot


1, Open game when you get to scene you want press prt top row of keyboard.(usually next to f12 )
2, open paint
3 ,paste into paint
4 ,crop borders out
5, save

voila 1 screen shot
Thanks. I completely forgot about print screen button. I've always made screenshots of renpy games by pressing the "S" button, and I've never made a screenshot of something else. But when the "S" button stopped working, I got confused.
 
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If you are saving the games to a system folder, such as the desktop, you may run into problems; Windows has this thing where if it sees files being created outside of normal processes, it gets a little antsy and stops it.

Try moving the game folder to a different folder and see if you get the same issue.
 

GioTrev

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Run the exe of the game as an administrator, it worked for me. Sorry for the late response, hope you'll read this