Hey,

Just wondering, and sorry if this is a DUH kinda question/answer, but I have noticed lately in the screenshot forums that many users have extremely clear ad crisp screen shots and I was wondering if this had to do with users possibly using LCD displays?

I have a flat screen monitor, but it is not a LCD flatpanel display and sometimes I feel my screen shots are slightly blurry.  They just arent as crisp and colorful as I have seen, yet I'm using a top notch video card.

Perhaps the resolution could be the issue right?  My monitor only supports up to 1280X1024 resolution at a refreshrate of 75 hertz....or at least thats all that shows up on my monitor options.  Is there a way to force a higher refresh and resolution?  I heard in FS that by editing the FS9.cfg, you could add a line that will put the option for 1600xwhatever resolution.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Correct me if I'm wrong but, doesn't the screen resolution correspond with the size of the screen shot?  I mean, I have my game set to 1280x1024 and that is the same dimension (in pixels) as my screen shot before I resize it.

I just don't see how, if its all in the video card, that my shots aren't as "clean" or crisp and colorfully vibrant as others I have seen around here, including people running lower end cards than mine and using the same image program I use.

I hope he doesn't mind me using him as an example, but take for example, the wonderful screenshots Codered has posted in the payware screenshot forum.  The quality is incredible!!  In his sig, he claims to run a ATI 9600.  Shouldn't the image quality of a 9800 at least equal that?  However, I noticed he uses a LCD flat panel.  So that's why I asked about the monitor.

I would think for the forum, taking pictures in a native 800x600 resolution would make higher quality screenshots then taking them at 1280x1024 and resizing. The paint program then has to choose 830720 pixels to lose.

I use Multigrab saving at 90% jpg quality, then use irfanview to resize to 800x600 and save at 70%. Nice low file size, nice low quality! Not too bad but there is  definately room for improvement!

Hi-D, Which water textures are you using there? Never ventured away from the default myself About time I did 8)

I had the brainwave idea of uninstalling ATi control panel, now I can't change or view any of my settings I quite like not having it as it saves me a lot of bother

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If you reduce an image from 1280x1024 to 800x600, you'll get much more detaill, NOT the reverse! 

Well, yeah...but my graphics settings are maxed at all times, and I have the game set on the highest resolution.  That's why I'm asking about this.  I don't understand why my shots aren't quite as clear as I feel they should be.  

I just spotted this. My system is not the best & not suitable for taking high quality shots which is one reason I rarely post any.

Just to make a few things clear. The monitor has nothing to do with the image quality of a screenshot. This is affected by the video card & display options in the sim. Forgive me if I'm wrong Scania but I seem to remember that when Ramsa was around he said that he used MultiGrab for all his shots. This was the best quality screengrab utility he could find at the time. He reduced the display resolution in the sim to 800 x 600 x 32 when taking shots to avoid losing image quality by resizing the images. (Ramsa was the screenshot guru on this forum at one time & everyone was amazed at the quality of his shots.)

This will obviously depend on your system, video card & the display mode you use. Everyone's system is different in some way. I notice that many people seem to run their sims in Windows mode & often wonder why. The display quality in all the M$ sims was always far better in Full Screen mode on my system.